YEAH!
When Buddy and I were checking the garden yesterday we found that our Sugar Snap Peas were ready to pick! Yum. This is very exciting-for those of you in the south, remember I am in New York-No one I know has any produce in their gardens yet. The farmers markets won’t even open for the summer until the end of the month. It’s just cool up here (and I’m not talking about being fashion forward) We snacked on the pods in the garden and Buddy excitedly showed Princess how to pick and eat them when she got off the bus. He just LOVES being able to teach his big sister something, and it is so cute to hear him sharing these things.
We’ve eaten most of this batch right off the vine, but we’ll have a dinner’s worth in another few days. Frugal, fresh and organic. Plus I get a lot of personal satisfaction from knowing that I grew them myself.
So the garden is off and running for the summer. We are growing tomatoes, chard, beans, peas, basil, lovage (an herb that tastes like celery), chives and mint (in a container-I have no desire to have mint take over the yard). I just bought some cucumber starts at Wally world (the only non organic thing in the garden-but they’ll be organic from now on) and planted two of them in the garden Tuesday as well (I’m going to train them up a trellis-with 2 4X8 raised beds, I can’t afford to have trailing vines everywhere).
The idea this summer is to have organic vegetables to put up for the winter from the garden: tomatoes to can for spaghetti sauce and green beans and chard to freeze for the winter. Then with my CSA share (yes, yes, I know I keep promising to write about that) we should have the rest of our veggies for the summer as well as some more to put away for the winter.
Growing my own organic veggies and even buying them from the CSA and preserving them for the winter will be MUCH cheaper than buying them fresh or canned in the middle of the winter.
Note: Photo from StockXchange
I just had my first sugar snap peas too come up, had some for breakfast! We’re growing peas, carrots, onions, tomatoes, potatoes (never again), and mint (in planters).
I usually have a huge garden and can a ton of fruit and veges, but we decided to skip this year. It can be such a chore to keep it up. But I must say that I do miss it.
Yay! Yummy. I love peas. (We aren’t there yet, but soon, I hope.)