Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Nature's Bounty

Gardening is a very humbling experience. With a little effort one is blessed with the precious bounty, nature can offer us. With a few days of heat and sunshine, my garden has reaped me so many vegetables.

I have been harvesting peas, radishes, spinach, lettuce (though the lettuce has now turned a tad bitter due to the summer days), fenugreek leaves, beets, dill and a few yellow wax beans. For the first time I ate radish pods after I saw this delicious recipe. Between admiring the bounty and the beauty of my garden, weeding therapy, dreading the appearence of late blight on my tomatoes , I am thoroughly enjoying eating off the land. Though now I wish I owned a tiny farm (BTW check out the link of tiny farm, one of my favourite virtual hangouts). So enjoy the photos below.


Dill, fenugreek leaves, a few yellow wax beans, beet, radish


Peas, lettuce


Radish pods


This week's harvest

How beautiful is my garden

Finally a red ripe tomato



The first cucumber


Bush Beans

Flat Beans on the way


Nasturtiums


Looks like the nasturtium flower is capturing the sun


Peas ready to be picked


Lush Beet greens