Time for harvesting edible treasures. After planting, protecting, checking, fighting for (rabbits, gophers, ants & worms), building a protective barrier for, hoping, wishing, watching, waiting and watering, why, it's time for eating.
Corn harvesting, here we come...
I bring Mister Lovee to see what's going on. All of the planting and caring for is pretty much my doing. I beg Lovee to pull off an ear of corn, and he hesitates, like, they are my babies and I should do it.
But, he finally agrees.
I tell him that the one he chooses is all his, and lucky him, he chooses a beauty....
It's a bitter sweet thing (but mostly sweet), picking corn, knowing that towering stalks won't be here for much longer...
It was a joy, watching them inch up, until they practically broke through the garden ceiling...
Tip-toeing in, peeking around, waiting, excitement...
Picking okra has begun also...
But for now, it is mostly baskets of corn.
3 big baskets to be exact.
Plus, the occasional trip out for a couple tasty ears for din...
I planted white sweet corn, and golden sweet corn...
It did so very well.
I am ever so glad I get to share these here with you, because otherwise, the only ones who would get to see the goodness, of which we are ever so grateful, would be me, lovee, two pups and our happy bellies.
Real butter on hot corn, mmmm, mmmm.....
Such an overwhelming joy to pick goodies out of your own garden.
Who knew?
Well, of course, we all know that, but still.
It's really something else, that such awesomeness can grow from mere seeds.
Seeds of nature.
Amazing.
Just amazing.
Watching tassels and bees fly around. Little tassel bits falling on the silks, to create corn kernels...
Knowing that hidden under the layers of husks, corn grew. I am perpetually fascinated, and in turn planning my fall garden.
Yummmmmmms.
Only, I am kicking myself.
I should have been more careful with the husks in husking my corn.
I really really really could kick myself, because I could have used the husks to make tamales.
Darn darn darn.
Or to make dolls.
Next time, I suppose you live and learn.
I am bundling many of the tassels for autumn decor, and saving the long beautiful leaves. They are drying in the cottage.
But for now, we eat.
4 ears a person.
Dig in!
I chose the most bestest ear of corn for my neighbor, and red faced and filthy, I ran it down to her house. Then ran back to keep working.
She wrote me later that night to say that, it was one of the best pieces of corn she had ever tasted. She grew up on a farm.
This made me very happy, because, I was secretly sort of wishing I had a family member who was a farmer. So that he or she could be amazed and proud of me.
Is that silly?
Oh oh, I L O V E the multi-color corn kernels, aren't they cute?
I refrigerated some corn.
I froze some corn.
We ate oodles of corn.
And I still am not tired of corn.
We are now enjoying our Cajun bell peppers. They are tiny, sweet and spicy. I actually have been eating them right in the garden, along with all of the oodles of different sized tomatoes...
Since I have lots of tomatoes, and some of the okra was ready, I decided to...
Try my hand at fried okra and fried green tomatoes.
(I had fried tomatoes before, but not okra)
We very rarely eat batter dipped fried foods.
In fact, so seldom, that I can't recall the last time?
I followed this recipe for my okra.
The fried okra was insanely good.
And, probably not that good for us, but I used light olive oil.
Does that count?
So, our summer is coming to fruition.
Very golden skin, without even noticing it happen.
Very full bellies.
Very happy puppies.
Time to plan for a fall garden.
Oh and, I have been tickled orange lately, what with a few Halloween orders in the shop, and a book about a haunted plantation, why, I might have to take out my autumn decor asap.
The seasons pass so quickly, you almost have to start celebrating them early to savor every little bit.
I simply can not get over how fast time flies by.
I am gobsmacked.
Time time time!
Oh, remember this?????
I should probably credit Paul Simon for writing it, and Simon and Garfunkel for orignally performing it.
;)
Okay so, off I go for now...
See you soooon!
