Garden Explosion

A hot, rainy start to storm season has made our gardens grow like weeds. In the kitchen garden the strawberries are still producing and spreading (I think they want to take over the backyard), and all the herbs are going crazy, too.

I've got fresh parsley now (center) so I'll probably make paella this week.

Apparently you have to do something special to make the artichoke produce a choke, but since me and my guy are not especially fond of them we're just going to try to keep it alive for our favorite person (she planted it).

The veggie garden is going wild as well.

The basil is seriously over-producing. We cut back all three plants back once already, and I've dried enough to last me all year from that. We'll have to do it again now and share the wealth with the neighbors.

I'm going to harvest the scallions this week and make dak-kochi with them.

The regular yellow onions are still pretty small, but we're hopeful they'll get bigger once we cut back the pole bean vines so they can get more sunlight.

This is one of the last harvest of pole beans; the vines have stopped flowering. We might get one more; I left some little beans on the vines to grow a bit larger.

My guy is doing all the work looking after the gardens now, so he gets all the credit. :)

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Stuff

After finding this Caron one pound skein of lovely peach yarn in my thrifted lot I raided my stash for two cakes of Mandala in Pegasus, which matches it perfectly. For practice and hand therapy I'm going to make another Worth Street Afghan with this free pattern , but this time I'll use the yarn that was recommended for it plus the one pound skein. I'm not quite ready to do the vintage/recycled linen quilt I had planned (still a bit too nervous about the idea), so I'm going to use some color therapy and make a quilt from these thrifted green fat quarters. I considered doing another Yellow Brick road patchwork pattern, but I might go with a split rail fence like this one.

Better than Fried

I cut some chives from the kitchen garden to make garlic-chive baked fries for dinner. This is a great side dish for veggie burgers. Click here for the recipe from Taste of Home.com.

The Mercantile

If you don't mind walking 33K square feet in retail space, The Mercantile may be the vintage/arts store you'd enjoy visiting if you're ever in Orlando. I certainly did. Because it was busy I didn't take any photos in the store, but it's absolutely amazing and chock full of antiques and artisan creations, most of which were pretty reasonably priced. For $21.00 I invested in a picture of sailboats for the guest bathroom I'm redoing, and a fairy mystery jar of cool stuff. The jaw was hand-painted and decorated, and utterly charming. I think I wanted the jar more than the contents. As you can see the contents were both generous and pretty cool, too. I finally have some vintage gloves to use for my art quilter bingo challenge!

Rayen

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