Harvest: Cukes, Blueberries and Basil
Blueberries and Cucumbers and 1 little Cherry Tomato.
A whole bunch of basil.
With the blueberries, I made these very tasty Blueberry bars, with a recipe I found on Farmgirl Fare. I topped it off with a scoop of fresh vanilla ice cream while it was still warm. Super yummy.
With the basil, we made pesto. Very easy and very satisfying. The basil photo way up above wound up being only half of what we needed to pick, since a lot of the basil has been chewed by bugs at this point and we didn't want to use any chewed leaves.
The pesto tasted really good on it's own. We had some whole wheat spaghetti left from a previous recipe and put the pesto on that, but the combination wasn't quite as mind-blowing as I thought it would be. I think I learned that I don't like whole wheat pasta. Oh well. Next time we'll probably go with gnocchi or tortellini, two of my favorite pasta types.
posted by Joshua @ 9:00 AM
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3 Comments:
Keep up the good work. thnx!
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I think you have a beautiful garden, especially if its a first garden, and you take great photos,
by the way thats a cone flower
Appears your cuke problem is the cucumber beetle has infected the plants.
Plant cukes in a different place this year (o7)and use something to kill them (cuke beetles)in the soil once the soil gets warmer when the beetle is active. I would also treat soil with beetle killer before I planted.I had the same problem and thats what I did.
If you get a cucmber beetle sex lure/trap to eliminate them from your garden go that route also.
northhadley
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