Cutesy Tree Art

I decided to take some pics to show how big the latest starts are. This is the basil. The Thai basil is the one that hasn't sprouted yet.

This one is Tigger melons (left) and dancing gourds.

Here are the squashes. Look how huge that Boston Marrow is! 1 is Rond de Nice (zucchini), 2 is Gray Zucchini, 3 is General Bidwell melon, 4 is Boston Marrow (pumpkin-ish), 5 is Galeaux (pumpkin)

I'll try to get more squash started today. And here are the last of the peppers I planted, the Sonoras. They're still pretty small, but at least we have some.

I ordered the door and windows from Plow and Hearth, and you gotta admit, they're cute as can be.

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What We're Eating

This is what Rick and I had for dinner last night: Potato leek soup made with our homegrown leeks, fresh homemade rolls, and salad with our homegrown lettuce, homegrown snow peas, and homegrown carrot, dressed with goddess dressing and tossed with sunflower seeds. OMG it was delicious. Rick and Catherine ate homegrown snow peas, stir fried with homegrown onion and garlic, tossed with shrimp marinated in soy sauce. That sounds pretty darn good also.

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The radicchio is getting huge! It's starting to head up.

Catherine worked hard at eliminating nettles. Doesn't she look triumphant? This is an enormous help, because I am very sensitive to nettles, and break out in an itchy rash if I even get near them.

The snow peas are knee high to an ogre.

The rose looks lovely surrounded by borage and lemon balm.