What are You Eating from the Garden?

[Branching Out]

Our daughter and a couple of friends joined us for dinner tonight, so we cleared the trays of seeds and tomatoes off the kitchen table and sat down to a nice meal together. We had homegrown chickpeas, red Thai curry with our peppers, and coconut curried lentils. On the side were Shintokiwa cucumbers in a really tasty dressing made with rice wine vinegar, sugar, salt, finely grated lime peel, fresh basil, and minced ginger-- kind of like a pickle and salad all in one dish. We cooked lots of veggie dishes as one guest was vegan, and there was grilled chicken and shrimp too. No dessert, but we each got to finish the meal with a Lucie's Giant Goldenberry.

 

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Honeydew melon –– I can hardly believe it.

A whim. Grew from seeds outdoors rather than starting 3-4 weeks and transplanting as with the other melons. Of course, with this Summer of 2025, the Galia and Lilly Crenshaw were ripe and enjoyed days ago. The Honeydew was planted at the end of the potato bed. All early potatoes and out of the way early, the melon vines took over that end. That is, one of the plants grew well and the other grew about 18" and did nothing. However! The one vine produced 5 ripe melons.

I think that we have had rather ideal melon growing conditions weather-wise and might have staggered the plantings. Nah, I can't believe that i even suggested that possibility ...