Our First Garden Harvest ....................................

This morning I harvested a few cucumbers and peppers from the garden.

Later I gathered red clover and a handful of blackberries. I've decided I'm going to make a blackberry/red clover syrup tomorrow. It's been a bad season for the blackberries , just to hot and dry. I don't have enough berries to make jelly and they're kind of seedy , so I'm going to squeeze them for juice and use it for the syrup. I also gathered some lemon balm and tarragon , plan to make herbal vinegar with that combination. The basil and oregano will be added to my canned spaghetti sauce to give it a fresh garden taste.

Last night I captured this photo of Geronimo keeping watch over his girls before they came in to roost.
He looks mighty proud !

There's a garden bed in that mess somewhere (LOL). This is my asparagus and strawberry bed , didn't get it moved and replanted this Spring as planned , so it'll have to wait until Fall. Dh talked me into using dirt he add dug up in the woods and this what we got , lots of weeds. I'll be using compost in it when we get it moved.

I decided to put a pair of gloves under the shed at the chicken coop , so I'll have them when I decide to grab the hoe again , hopefully it'll save my fingers from another nasty blister. I've got at least a half dozen pairs of gloves if not more , so I shouldn't be having sore fingers (LOL). After looking at them hanging there , I think I'll put them in a plastic bag so no spiders can make a home in them (LOL).


What have you been up to today ?

~ Garden Blessings ~

JoyceAnn