It’s starting to pay off. . .

. . . all our hard work in the garden, that is!  We have been enjoying some things from the garden the past week or so and I haven’t even had a chance to blog about it.

I’m gonna make this a super quick post, I just got back from a 25 min walk/jog around the neighborhood – it’s only 9.15am and already I’ve taken over 5000 steps! I should hit 10,000 today :-)

Last night Jason and I went out back as we usually do after dinner, and this is what I picked . . . .

Acorn squash, summer (yellow squash) and a zucchini, 3 peaches and 3 green beans!!! Yes, just 3 green beans, that is so funny I think. Usually we would get a lot more all at once, but this small crop we planted first didn’t do so well in the beginning, and there’s not much on them right now. We have another larger crop we planted a few weeks after that are looking really good, and we have a whole row of ‘pole beans’ that are growing up the netting really fast.

These aren’t the first peaches from the tree, we had some last week

 

We can’t remember what kind of peach this is but it’s definitely different to the other two trees – a much earlier producing one for sure, as the other trees have tiny peaches on, and they’re no where near ripe yet. But these babies were . . . and they were delicious.

I can’t tell you how nice it is to just pick them off the tree and sit on the back porch eating them, they’re so juicy, and still warm from the sun – truly amazing.

Here’s a meal I did last week…. rather eclectic but we wanted to eat what was harvested from the garden – We had soup I made with the chicken from the Farmer’s Market. Our first acorn squash were ready, so I roasted two with a little butter and brown sugar. You can see a small bowl of plums (they have all gone from the tree now – we didn’t get as many as we did last year, and they were smaller, but still so good)

Here’s one just before I picked it off the tree!

There’s also a bowl of salad from our garden. I’ve since cut much more, just look at the bowl fulls I got this week:

The corn is getting high but I don’t see any ‘ears’ yet! Cantaloupes are flowering as are the watermelons. Peppers are starting to grow better too. It’s all looking great.

Linking to:

Outdoor Wednesday

Tuesday Garden Party