Raab Park update

Last March, I mentioned that Cheryl, as part of her Master Gardener activities, volunteers at Frank Raab Park up in Poulsbo. They have a wonderful children's garden, consisting of some really great vegetable patches, those hoop houses, pole bean teepees, etc. And those Master Gardeners really do have green thumbs...so far this summer, 170 pounds of produce out of this garden have been donated to the Fishline food bank. Nice job!

Pretty as a turnip

Or a fig!

Plot O'Plenty

The string beans may yet force us to buy a chest freezer this year.

The potatoes are mostly still in the dirt, but there's plenty of them too. Anyone know the best way to store them?

Still picking and eating bags and bags of spinach, kale, chard, mizuna and endive.

You say tomato...

Summer finally arrived - a week of 80 degree days in September will ripen some tomatoes, yesiree.

Last of the peas

Although we pulled the peas out a few weeks ago at The Plot, the ones in my front yard were still going strong. You'd think it would be too warm in August, but the weather remains cool - there haven't been too many days above the mid-70's. I finally pulled them out today, though, so here's my final harvest. Goodbye peas. Our snow peas and sugar snap peas were both delicious and very fruitful; next year I would like to try shelling peas also.

Sorry, I only had my Droid camera today.

I love August

Lotsa beans

Hey, I better freeze some of these. Am I supposed to blanch them first?