Today, courtesy of reader Michele Miller, we have our first photographs of vegetables. I’ll let her describe them. Her words are indented, and you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.
I am not a professional photographer but I have a groups of photos that may be of interest. They are not technically wildlife but I have photos of the harvests I gathered daily (or every few days depending on month) from my little backyard garden from late April-October 2023; while not that impressive one by one, in aggregate they illustrate the amount of food one can produce pretty easily (I’m a lazy gardener, weeds have a happy home in my plot) and organically at home. I live only an hour north of NYC but I am lucky to have a neighbor who has cows (minis) and thus plenty of organic fertilizer. I don’t use pesticides as I am also a bird/bee advocate.Some examples, also with some of the meals I made from the harvests:
Now I’m hungry! 🙂
GCM
Nice gardening!
Lovely photos!
Growing veggies gives me a great sense of satisfaction, plus some tasty food!
Lovely! The food looks delicious!! I wish I could try them.
That was great! Especially now in the depths of winter. Very much appreciated.
What a series of home grown crops. The green world, even the cultivated ones in backyards, and so varied in color. What a gardener and what a cook. The bowl you chose for the tomatoes, cheese and greens is beautiful and a perfect serving dish.
Thanks so much. I hope you do more sometime.
Great photos.
A lot of overlap with our backyard garden located in southwestern Ontario (just west of Toronto).
We still have some kale that we never harvested that seems just fine with temperatures as low as -20 C.
Cool! Yummy food!
Well done – nothing like growing and then cooking your own.
But it goes fast!
As it is the winter months somewhere, I’d note some success keeping simple produce fresh by propping them up in a glass of water – lettuce, cilantro, parsley – not perfect, but definitely useful. No soil required.
The bounty in one’s own backyard. Awesome! I like how that bounty ends up on the plate. Is it still wildlife at that point? 🙂
To adapt a couple of old proverbs: A change is as good as feast, it would seem.
I noticed the multi-coloured Swiss Chard. I have grown that, but, although it looks pretty, I think that the plain variety tastes better.
Nice, reminds me of Summer. Can’t wait! My garlic is a few inches tall. And now I’m hungry.
I loved this post! I’m getting antsy to get my garden going again – hopefully the groundhog was correct and spring is just around the corner!
Well, YUM!
Call any Vegetable!
“No one will know if you don’t want to let them know
No one will know ‘less it’s you that might tell them so
Call and they’ll come to you, covered with dew
Vegetables dream of responding to you
Standing there shiny and proud by your side
Holding your hand while the neighbors decide
Why is a vegetable something to hide?”
Frank Zappa and the Mother’s of Invention
Thank you Jerry for the post and thanks everyone for your sweet comments. I woke up to 20 degrees and more snow but the days are longer and my Swiss chard and mustard greens are still green under their row cover. Time to start perusing the seed catalogues (garden ‘porn’) and planning the crop for next year. I grow almost everything from seed, either direct planting in the garden or starting inside under grow lights (tomatoes, eggplant, pepper). Any recommendations on new varieties?