A SunFlower Makes You Happy!
We have sunflowers scattered around different parts of the garden. They're just little plants of sunshine that make you happy when you look at them in early summer. In the last week, they have started to bloom.
Sunflowers are not the only thing coming into season around here. I spotted my first blackberry today while in the garden. We have a whole hedge of these amazingly mass producing plants in the back of our garden. All of our composted humanure saved for the past year is spread on them during the fall and winter seasons and they grow like crazy. So I guess you could say there is more to that berry than meets the eye! LOL. I ate it soon after the photo was taken.
The first spicy jalapeno on a young pepper plant was spotted today. It's still got some growing to do but it won't be long before it makes its way into Jaimie's kitchen and then perhaps a taco salad or jar of salsa! Or maybe fresh pico de gallo!
Construction projects are always underway here at the homestead. We have a long list to go yet. But this is our latest. It's a multiple stall shower house that will be used for guest who come to stay on our homestead in the fall. Each fall, we have a large feasts and have around 100 campers staying on the property. We want them to stay clean. :)
Speaking of projects. Here are a couple from the past. We built the brick fired pizza oven about a year after moving here. We use it for all kinds of cooking including roasted turkeys, chicken, bread baking, squash, roasting sunflower seeds and yes PIZZAS! The other building is our outdoor kitchen where we will be doing most of our pressure canning this summer very soon as the garden produce starts getting harvested.
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WOW! This was our garlic harvest today! They are laid out on 3 folding tables on our deck to dry. This has been the best garlic harvest so far on the homestead. Now they just needs to dry and we will clean them up a bit and then braid them. Chances are, we may give away a garlic braid to one of our patrons. They look so pretty hanging in the kitchen making them ready to use whenever the chef needs one.
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