Harvest Monday - June 1st

Tomato plants are in as are peppers.  Cucumber is sprouting.  Snow peas are flowering. Garlic is producing scapes. Blueberries filling out.  Lettuce finishing up. Bok choy all picked.

Here are a few shots.  I haven't always remembered to take the photos.

Bok choy getting rinsed.  I have several bags in the refrigerator.

Bok choy marinating in lime juice and garlic for grilling.  That was so so.  I think if I do it again I'll try a different seasoning. 

Garlic scapes on top of spinach harvest.  I used the scapes to make Daphne's garlic scape dressing.

A basketful of assorted lettuces.

What's in your garden basket?

Daphne's Dandelions hosts Harvest Monday

What to Do With a Broken Plate

 Here's the herb garden which I redid this year.  I had to try to tame the oregano - right edge of the bed - and needed to replace some herbs that died out.  I have had a broken white plate in my herb garden for a couple of years. It's not visible but sat in the ground between the oregano and the savory.

One of my hobbies is Zentangle.  The act of doing it is Tangling.  I go to a club meeting once a month so grabbed the plain white plate and decided to decorate it with tangles.  I used permanent ink but don't know if the design will weather well.

Here's the plate in a new spot stuck in the ground in front of the basils and cilantro.

Too much of the bottom edge design was not visible this way so I got a stand.

Here it is on the stand.

I used 2 colors of pink, purple and black.  Dan gave it the stamp of approval!

Hmm ...  I have three more whole plates.  May just have to tangle them, too.

Wildlife

I planted my peppers finally on Wednesday along with a row of bush beans, two pots of cucumbers, a row of Little Gem lettuce and a hill of butternut squash.

This toad was in the garden.  I think he's made a home there.  Good!

As I was finishing up I spotted a turtle by the garden gate.  Was he going in or out?  I didn't know but with all the mud on him I figured he needed to be relocated to the pond and that's where I took his photo.  

Look at that long tail.

He blends in with the surroundings well.  

When I went back 10 minutes later I couldn't spot him anywhere.

I wonder if he will eat goldfish?

New Addition to Screen Porch

I have been looking at antique shops for years and then on Etsy and eBay for this primitive hutch that I spotted years ago in Flea Markets Gardens, a magazine (year unknown).  I've been carrying around this torn out page forever.

Finally I found a Pennsylvania cabinet maker on eBay and made the purchase in early April.  It's built to order so Tuesday it finally came.  I am really pleased with how it turned out.  

It's a nice addition to the porch and provides more display space and storage than the shelf that was there since we moved in almost 10 years ago.  The shelf is now in my garden shed holding pots I'm not currently using.  Pictured on the deck before it made that move.

My first attempt at filling the shelves with decorations.