Garden Reprt! With pictures :)

Name those herbs!
We have quite a few herbs in the garden..all ready for the picking!..
Can you name them?













We think these are pumpkins..or winter squash??





Do ya'll know what kind of bug this is? They are all over the sunflowers!


Okra anyone?.

Hot peppers
More pumkins :)
The sweet peas are blooming again!
Tomatoes out the wazoo!


Did you know that the common marigold are wonderful companion plants for tomatoes? They help keep the nasty bugs off the plants.. maybe that's why the tomatoes are doing so well!

And last but not least..the garden mascot surveying her domain :)

CSA on July 30

Looks like both Denise and I missed posting last week - things have been pretty busy for me and I've simply not had time - I'm sure the same thing is true for her.

At last we are getting tomatoes - they had held back on the early tomatoes making sure that their crops were not tainted or contaminated. Last week I got a small box of the cherry tomatoes - we ended up just eating them all straight out of the box as snacks for the next few days.

This week I've got several very ripe red tomatoes and a few plum yellow ones. We've had one green tomato which got sliced so fast and fried, it never knew what hit it!

This week there is a small mess of beans - similar to October beans. I've shelled them and they are on to cook - they are definitely a variety that gets shelled and cooked.

Also this week, a few carrots, cucumbers, bell peppers, white corn, peaches and red onions.

Last week I had some new potatoes, a few carrots and a big onion. I scrubbed it all up, sliced it up in chunks, covered it with some low sodium fat free chicken broth and cooked until the potatoes and carrots were tender. We ate this with green beans and sliced tomatoes and cucumbers - excellent supper, very little fat, no one missed having meat.

I've gotten a lot of bell peppers, so we've had fajitas and eat them raw sliced with ranch dressing. Don't forget these can be diced and packaged in zip locks bags for use in the winter.

Another big cantalope this week - for any of you that suffer from fluid retention, fresh cantalope seems to be a very natural diuretic. Now, there's no MD after my name (as I'm often told) so don't skip any meds on my word!

This weeks CSA box!

We got corn,tomatoes,peppers,onions,beans,peaches,cukes,lemon cukes,and I get a meat portion so that's a nice looking pork roast on the left hand side :)

Recipes to follow!!

Have a blessed week!
We found this week that Avalon offers a winter CSA... I'm sooo there

CSA Haul week of 7/7/08

Sorry about posting so late!

This week we had an adventure getting our food boxes. (that's just what we call them at my house) The delivery guys had locked the keys in the truck while they ate lunch AT MCDONALDS!!!. Anway, into each life some junkfood must fall.

Renee and I drove out to pick up the food - so thank you to everyone for waiting so patiently at the community center for us to return. For our trouble, the guys gave us a basket of peaches and a crate of cherry tomatoes.

When we returned, Anna worked on handing out the boxes, adding peaches and tomatoes to each one. Didn't take long and we were on our way home. Wednesdays have become somewhat exciting around my house, to see what we got and what we're having for supper!

This week I did not add the cinnamon rolls to my order - I have no sense about them - and I'm sure I've said this before, maybe on the blog. If so, please forgive me, I'm on 4 list serves and have a personal blog too, I may tell you the same thing 6 times and never remember that I've done so.

So my box included (and remember I'm getting the 1/2 bushel, the $35.00 box)

1 huge cantaloupe

3 yellow squash

4 very nice size cucumbers

1 jalapeno

2 garlic bulbs

1 sprig fresh parsley

6 ears of corn

3 bell peppers

1 pint blackberries

1 eggplant

Add to that the extra peaches and tomatoes so we had a good haul.

Since I've gotten so many bell peppers, and some of you may have to, if you cannot use them all now you can freeze them quite easily for use later.

Wash, core and chop them. I measure out 1/2 cup into a snack size zip lock or wax paper. Seal or wrap tightly. I then put whatever little packages I've accumulated into a zipper freezer bag. Whenever you need green pepper, just take out 1 or 2 packages - you can crumble with your hand into whatever you are mixing/making.

FYI~ Flatrock Heritage Community Garden Meeting!

Please join us on July 16 the at 6:00 p.m. @ the Coleman Park Community Center ( corner of Thompson Lane and Nolensville Rd ) .

We'll be sitting down and discussing plans for the garden ! And we need your input !

It was hot and steamy ....

No this is not a start of a "trashy" novel ... but another Saturday morning at the Community Garden!
Ahhh got to love July in Tennessee!

We have more cucumbers than we can ever eat so if anyone wants to come a get some PLEASE do!

Corn is starting to come in... So is the peas.. and the okra ( but please bring gloves they have prickly hairs on them that will eat your fingers )
and the tomatoes are starting to coming in :)

We have beautiful Sunflowers! Squash ... lots of herbs..

Please come by and take some :) This is your garden.. its Flatrocks garden!

Speaking of met the gentleman who owns the lawn and garden business right across the street from the garden.. Dwight I believe he said name was..
He had stopped by to say that "we're doing a FINE job with the garden" and " this is what this neighborhood needed !
Plus he says he LOVES to garden and grow things.. and if we need anything either him or one of his guys will come over and help out! Things like tilling and hauling!

We have our community garden bulletin board! A big thanks to everyone who got it made and hauled to the garden!!!!
All it needs now is painted...

Lots and lots of ideas floating around the garden.. :) .
We're having a Community Garden Meeting at Coleman Park on Weds July 16th at 6:00 p.m.
Everyone is invited to join us!

Now for the pictures.. :)
Sorry about the little blur in the some of the pics.. either we have a ghost in the garden ( where's Ghost Hunters when you need them lol ) or something on the lens..
Enjoy! Hope to see ya'll at the garden meeting or up in the garden!!

Our new community Bulletin Board! Ready and waiting to be painted :)


TC and our beautiful green garden!



Shelby fast becoming our Garden mascot...

Debbie hard at it !
Some of our harvest :)

Mircowave your ear of corn!

Want to have fresh corn but don't want to mess with the mess, microwave it!
Thats right just stick the corn in the microwave .. you don't have to shuck it.. or peel the silks off before you put it in the microwave... just throw a ear in there... set it for about 6 to 7 mins..

When done the shucks and silks slip right off.. and you have THE best corn on the cob!

What I got from the CSA doesn't even need butter... :)

But watch it when it comes out the microwave..its VERY hot and steamy