Anne’s garden—many of you have inquired to its progress. I shall allow the pictures to speak as to how the garden is faring.
Tomatoes
Potatoes
Mostly it is flourishing save the squash, which has sadly yielded one small fruit.
Small Squash
As you know the wonderful bounties of a garden underlies a good deal of effort. Yesterday I collected a certain amount of greens
Escarole
Assorted Greens (chards and collards)
and freshly picked chard
along with basil, tomatoes, aubergine, and bell pepper.
Cherry Tomatoes
Aubergine, isn’t it lovely??
Harvest of tomatoes yielded twelve cups after processing, to be frozen. As noted, quite the effort is extended, but one is presented with such culinary delights that all else is forgiven.
I created a most extraordinary omelet, with roasted bell pepper, aubergine, asparagus, potato and topped with a bit of gruyere
Scallions
Tomatoes harvested
admittedly this was brilliant, dare I say a masterpiece. The addition of aubergine to the omelet offers a luxuriant taste/feel—can not wait to share with Anne.
Here are a few more photos:
Carrots
Green Beans, when will they cease to be?
Beets emerging—ugh, not a favourite.
Rutabaga
Rutabaga emerging
Scallions
Onions, will dry a bit in the sun.
More Tomatoes
Green beans ready to be processed
32 thoughts on “mister knitspot: anne de jardin”
I’m sure that this post will have delighted Anne, David. The garden is looking fabulous. All those beans and tomatoes. Yum! And as for the beets, you need to eat them in chocolate cake. You must have heard the song ‘A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down’?! Well, there’s the solution to the beets!
oh mr. knitspot you are the hero of all anne’s knitters! thanks for the garden tour! try those beets roasted and topped with fresh ricotta and a bit of thyme and mint and maybe you’ll alter your opinion.
Well done, Mr. Knitspot! Anne will be so pleased, especially about the harvesting efforts. We aim for bounty, but it does give us so much work to process, and waits for no man. I imagine you have pulled your garlic by now too?
The beets look glorious! I think josiekitten’s idea about the cake is good!
Thank you so much for holding down the fort while Anne is gone. You two make a wonderful team.
Thank you for sharing. I love the garden pictures!
Great pictures!!!
Your photographs are so vivid and colorful! I wish our garden was faring as well as yours. Thanks for keeping the blog updated!!
You are a very poetic writer; keep on!
I was just wondering how the garden was doing Mr. Knitspot!
thanks for the garden update. I am envious of the bounty (we have a tiny yard), but not of all the work such a wonderful garden entails.
I also wanted to comment to tell you again how much I enjoyed your class “Designing Off the Cuff” at Sock Summit. My tummy was rebellious that morning but the class content and handouts were outstanding.
Jo
What a lovely garden! Thanks for the post Mr. Knitspot!
the garden looks lovely! the omelet sounds yummy! we’ve done more of that this year with our early harvests from our CSA share.
What a great post. Thank you for sharing your garden with us, Mr. Knitspot!
Now, what is the difference between an Aubergine and an Egg Plant?
Your loss–Anne being away from home–is our gain. I LOVE when you post. It’s always such a delight!
Beautiful!
com’on mr knitspot, beets are nice to eat and good for you. have you tried: 1)beets in the oven (wrapped in foil) , when done cube and add cubed feta, a classic 2) grated raw young beets with vinaigrette made of olive oil, balsamico, salt, pepper, cumin seeds mixed in , my fav 3) beet soup with tomato (a little sharper) or with carrots (a little sweeter)
i really think that with nearly all things it’s a question of finding the right way of preparing them (right for you that is). i’m sure better cooks than myself here are willing to share their recipes with you!
David, what a great post! Beautiful pictures and love the description of your omelet. Sounds yummy.
I hear you on the beets. Not my favorite either.
You’ve done a fantastic job holding down the fort.
Nice job keeping the garden going, Mr. Knitspot! Better yet the comment on the omelette. My guess is that the addition of aubergine made the mixture more creamy, thus more luscious. Regarding the beets, I agree with the cake idea. The other suggestions sound great to me (a beet lover), but disguise is better for beet haters.
Almost envious–deer ate everything this year. We live in a community where we can’t fence, and they even found the tomatoes I snuck into the front flower bed, ignoring all of the ornamental plants and zeroing in on the tomatoes. The sad part is, that when we were surrounded by forested vacant lots–no deer, but the new neighbors put out corn.
you two always have such a lovely garden. thanks you for sharing your pictures and your omelet recipe. the scorching heat we are having here in oklahoma and the horn worms has pretty much taken care of any hopes that i had for my tomatoes.
i wanted to mention that i too am not a fan of beets (yukky), but i have had them in a chocolate cake as commenter #1 mentioned and it was quite good. i could not detect them at all. however, i don’t think i will die if i never eat another beet.
thanks again and hope you are having a nice summer!
David, Sometimes you have to help squash, pumpkin, gourds, etc. with getting a bumper crop. They need a great deal of insects (bees) to get the flowers pollinated. I take a Q-tip and rub it on the antlers where you can see a yellow dust and then tranfer the collections on the q-tip to the center stigma which has a sticky substance to collect the pollinating dust. Works like a charm in most cases. Good luck to your squash plants. Sex for plants 101.
Hmmm….roasted eggplant in an omelet. What a brilliant idea! I bet it was fabulous. Will have to try it next weekend after a visit to the farmer’s market. (Alas, I am an apartment dweller and only garden vicariously through blogs.)
Thank you for sharing!!
Fabulous photos! I am so envious of your lovely garden (apartment living only allows for some herbs and tomatoes in pots). Your omelet sounds lovely, I will have to try aubergine in one. And yes, the aubergine photo really is lovely.
The chard looked delicious and the aubergine and tomatoes are beautiful. Although I fall into the group that doesn’t care for beets, I do put them in a breakfast smoothie and the ‘beet’ flavor cannot be detected. I’ve heard of putting them in a chocolate cake but have not yet tried it.
Thanks for sharing the beauty of the garden (and the idea for the omelet).
Thanks David for the garden updates. Just thinking about just picked veggies makes my mouth water with all the possibilities- like your omelet.
Thanks again for pictures of “home”.
Wow….David those photos are fabulous! Beets are SO not a favorite of mine either, even though I keep trying to convince myself to like them. 😉
mister knitspot, your garden is just lovely.
Now, about those beets, I must agree with josiekittens (and others) regarding beet cake. I recently came across this beautifully/artistically filmed silent video of baking a beet cake: http://tigerinajar.blogspot.com/2011/05/beauty-of-creation.html. Perhaps watching it will entice you to give chocolate beet cake try?
I’ve also been experimenting with using beets as a natural dye for wool. Got some beautiful colors, although I don’t yet know about their colorfastness. Time will tell. 🙂
Happy gardening!
Thank you for your posts, David! You seem to have the soul of a poet, and I appreciate your pictures and words!
Beet greens sauteed with onions and a splash of tamari, topped with melted cheese and rolled up in a wrap- I could eat this every day. (And I don’t really like beets much…)
Great and WTG, David!!!
I am always super jealous of your guys’ garden! This year has been better for growing, but still nothing on yours. 🙂
David, I just love you! I am so glad to count you as one of my friends! Okay – sap session over. Carry on!
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