It's a pleasure (at least to me) to look out into the backyard at Struan Farm right now: veggies are growing pretty much everywhere, summer abundance. Visitors seem to be blown away when they turn the corner past the garage!
I'll let the photos speak for themselves, but we have heaps of lettuces, beets, flowering and green tomatoes, purple spotted Dali beans, nasturtium, herbs (dill, basil, parsley, coriander, chives, sage, thyme, mint), zucchini (been eating oodles of zoodles to use the surplus), black currants, and purple snow peas. The quinoa is starting to grow heads of what must turn into quinoa grain to harvest eventually, and the deep purple carrots have germinated. We're holding off a bit longer to dig the potatoes (no action on the Maori potatoes quite yet, but they've just been planted). Fortunately last year's completely neglected potato patch yielded enough for Christmas dinner and then some.
Pumpkins and spaghetti squash are growing everywhere in the back by the compost bins, although it looks like the spaghetti squash may be dominating that situation. I won't know until everything ripens since it's a contained universe to keep out both the dog and the rabbits. Hoping for some Musquee de Provence and Marina di Choggia pumpkins, fingers crossed.
Out near John's workshop there are more tomatoes, basil, marigolds and corn.
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