Randomness

Usually I have some sort of theme to my postings or the recent photos I've taken tend to fall into their own categories. But this time, there is no method to my madness. Let's just walk around and see what we see, wanna?

These Impatiens in my window boxes have been a very long time coming. Having the Hawthouse has made me even more smug, and I decided that I could pretty much grow anything. I started the first round of Impatiens from seed sometime in March and every last one of them was a dud. Bad seeds, I said, and purchased different ones. They took, but have only been lovely green flowerless plants. Until today when these appeared, validating me.

Today I made cream of carrot soup (I guess this should really be on Little Glutton...) The original plan was to harvest enough peas and carrots to can a batch of Peas & Carrots with Chives. However, if you're at all familiar with canning, you know it takes an inordinate amount of produce to make a canner-full, and it all has to be fresh-picked or things don't turn out so well. Do you know how many peas it takes to make a pint for canning and how long it takes to pick and shell them before they're even ready to can? Do you??? No? A lot, that's how many. The Big Guy said this soup is delectable (fine, he said "really, really good." Same diff.)

Fresh Green Pea Soup was had last week. It was ambrosial.

Prickly picklies!

Zucchini. Since I took this picture less than a week ago, this has blossomed, and the fruit is at least triple in size. It's probably tripled again in size since I started this post. Zucchini is the Kudzu of the garden.

Corn is a-comin'. In the background you can see those mammoth sunflowers actually becoming mammoth. I tied them to the wire fence with Velcro slings because one tipped over.

Say goodbye to the rambling rose. When we moved in here, this was a much, much smaller bush, and it was oddly planted in the middle of the back yard. I thought it was pretty enough to try to keep, and it was replanted in the corner of the garden where it turned into a tree. I always loved the heady fragrance that wafted through the garden while I worked. But old rambling rose has seen better days, and The Big Guy cut her down this morning.

It is a good thing when you have to remove shelves in the Hawthouse to accommodate the tomatoes and peppers. There will be salsa and chili sauce. I mean that.

The dill is doing fabulously, if I do say so myself. And I do.

Today's post has been brought to you by Kale Kitty, who thanks you for stopping by.