Garden goodies

Spring and summer always involves scouting for plants everywhere I go. This past weekend at the farmer's market and nursery I was looking for herbs and veggi plants to fill in our beds for good. I brought home yellow onions, watermelon, a cool-looking green pumpkin squash, lemon verbena, fennel, a sunflower, lavender, and I had marigolds to throw in the mix from the weekend before.

We've had our garden going since early spring, so we've been harvesting for a few months (shown below are rainbow chard, lettuce mix, and leeks). The leeks were fun. They've gone to flower now, but they were really tender this spring and tasted just like a leek. Fancy that. It always suprises me when it comes from my garden. We have french sorrel growing year-round. I've tried cooking with it and don't really care for the taste. It's sour, kind of lemony. Recipe suggestion (where you've cooked with it and liked it)? I just gave a bunch to my neighbor, who liked the taste raw and her son did too.

I have one cabbage growing strong. I had a bunch planted next to the kale this spring and either white flies or aphids got to most of my plants. It was a bummer. It looks like this one is going to make it to maturity.

Hubby also built me a potting bench with some storage. Only a little bit of staining left to go.