Salad! All! The! Time!

The best part of the farm is the constant salad it provides. We have had some heavy rains this weekend and the lettuces and spinach are extremely happy with the situation. We ate a large salad tonight that included fresh peas, also farm born.

I planted two more tomatoes, last weekend actually. One is a trusty Brandywine and the other is called Miss Lillian's Yellow. The woman I bought them from at the farmer's market said she got one pounders off the Miss Lillian last year, and these plants are from those seeds. So, come August we hopefully will have a bumper crop for slicing, salting and then consuming with buffalo mozzarella. Yum!

I also put in one zucchini that the market gal said would not take over the farm. It's called Black Beauty, which on this Kentucky Derby weekend must mean it is named after a certain horse.

I am struggling some these past weeks with patience. I want the yard to be bigger and fuller; the spiral stairs in and jasmine already winding up the wrought iron. As it is, the foxgloves that I planted in February will not bloom until May of 2010! Also, I have started collecting cobalt soda water bottles for my bottle tree vision. And hopefully Geoff will be out sooner rather than later to help with the glorious chicken coop. Big plans for a used tire terrace in the south western most corner too. Rain this weekend prevented that project. Slow gardening is not coming easily to me these days.

Jennie made cookies, so I gotta go! More later....