Fall Food

A few random photos of fall foods from the garden...

We grew our first fig this year on our smallest fig plant.  It was little but delicious!
 

We also canned tomatoes for the first time...the tomatoes were probably overripe and we obviously did not put enough in each jar, but it was a learning process and it will be interesting to see how they turn out as sauce this winter.

We also made pesto with the abundance of basil we grew.  We prepare it without the cheese and freeze it in ice cube trays so we can just use however many cubes we need for a particular dish during the winter.

Sunflower and Spider

We grew the tallest sunflower we have grown this year- a Russian Mammoth.

We also hosted a large orb weaver spider for a while who remade her web ever night after wrapping up her catch.

Outside at Ocean Street

Here is a series of photos of our yard and veggie garden over the past couple months...

Baby Praying Mantis!

The last time it was mowed...

Self seeding Bellflowers and Bronze Fennel

Grapes

Mexican Sunflower

Milkweed

Lavender

New plant book

bad picture of our first fig!

tomatoes growing...

early in the veggie garden

Leadwort

Different view of coop

Dust bathing

Allium in bloom (probably should have harvested the onions already but they are pretty!)

A pear hiding amongst the leaves and flowers

Poppy

Clematis

Hens chomp down on some fresh greens

Bad little striped cabbage moths- found on the kale

moonflower

St John's Wort

A blurry pic of our natural meadow of bellflowers and brown eyed susans.

Crocosmia

Bronze fennel and grape leaves

Hungry Hops

Wild Variegated Staghorn Sumac

Impatience always looks a little crazy...

Bounty from the garden

The woodland sunflowers are so tall you can barely see the coop!

Blooming fennel and Mexican Sunflower

the growing veggie garden