Cats and melons

 

26.5 pounds of watermelon!

Head Gardener gardens.

Clearing out the summer garden.

watermelon

We grew this... We in the royal sense of the word. It is very tasty.

 

 

Flowers we grew

A long time ago… like 2010

Eggplant

Nick grew these. I cooked them. Good team work!

Tomatoes

 

There are lots of tomatoes out there and soon they will be red.  Did we tell you that all of our tomatoes planted themselves?  The seeds that fell last summer yielded these plants (plus two more plants).  Hopefully they are nice and hardy plants!

Zucchini

Garden by Nick, Natalie, and Tia

 

 

Judi cooks it mostly. Sunday night (last night) we made 4 zucchini--two were turned into zucchini fries, one was turned into zucchini hummus, and one was turned into 4 loaves of zucchini bread (Nick's specialty). 

Surprise flowers

 

These popped up in our yard this year!  They are lovely!

Plums

 

Almost!

bee house

 
One of my Mother's Day presents was a little house for Carpenter Bees.  They don't make honey but are great pollinators.  Someday, when I have more time, maybe I'll have a hive.  Brother Rob has 3 hives... (pictures soon).

helper

 
A baby preying mantis -- s/he just hatched and is going to work in our garden!

garden

 
Soon there will be raspberries! We've had a few here and there and they are yummy!

July garden

You can see how happy the garden is!

 

A little tomato jewel! We have since picked it and we ate it. It was every bit as delicious as we expected.

 

We have sooooo many tomatoes! It's GREAT!  Come on over for a salad!

Zucchini party

Our garden is VERY happy right now. Look at our almost 10 pound zucchini. One of my friends said you can't put the ini part on it since it's NOT little.

We made 4 pans of roasted zucchini. It is excellent covered in spaghetti sauce.  

Gluten Free Zucchini Bread (minus almost all the oil, plus chocolate chips, minus the frosting, and minus some of the flours she recommended in her recipe--we subbed tapioca flour (3/4s a cup) and increased the oat flour (a little) and almond flour (until we got the right amount of flour).  It was DELICOUS!

 

Two loaves of Zucchini Bread.

 

We'll be back to more pictures from France and England soon. (SOOOO many!)