Hot Topic: What’s in your Garden? Lots of Green &Red! Baked Beets with Feta and Pesto

Two new rows of lettuce are just popping out. 3 early plantings are so tall… that if I don’t use them quickly (and giving them to friends is tone of the best uses) they will go to seed. I snapped 14 pounds of broccoli off of the healthy plants are stand tall, and are continuing to produce new crowns. Green Lake bush string beans are producing like there is a marathon race to see which plant can put out the fastest, longest and most beans. Not bad! Our rows and rows of carrots are tall, thinned and plumping up. Sweet, crunchy carrots – a pretty gift from the ground. Herbs have thrived: basil, rosemary and parsley. Oh they smell so good! And a fall crop of potatoes and Brussels sprouts will keep these quasi farmers happy.

Our tomatoes are our continual problem child. We have had the ‘wilt’ the shrivel, the bugs the ughs. But we still have plants – lots of them and some are producing fruit… I give the plants the excuse that it is cool, overcast and not prime time yet. (As I give them the pep talk, I want to yell “Get With the Program” – but that will not do a lot of good…)