Eight Ball Squash & a Field of Corn

It seemed only a week ago the flowers just started blooming on our squash and now all of sudden there is squash! This is known as Eight Ball Squash, there are three eight-balls right now with more on the way. Hoping to come up with a great recipe and stuff these this week. I am tempted to also pick some of the flowers and stuff them as well, yum! Another surprise this week was what I call our field of corn, there is now corn ! I wasn't expecting anything until at least late July...not sure which variety we have but now thinking maybe they are the "early" corn. They are not quite ready for harvesting but I am thinking in about a week as long as I can get to them before the squirrels realize they are ready for chomping.

French Baby Carrots

Today, we went to thin our carrots and were pleased to find some quite large ones ready to eat. This is a variety of seeds we planted of yellow and orange Babette carrots back in April over any area of about 3' x 4'. There is something really yummy about the smell of a carrot still covered with dirt, cant get fresher then that - we will have these with dinner tonight and many more to come!

Our Baby Romaine lettuce is in full bloom and after carrot thinning, we decided to harvest some for dinner. Dante had the fantastic idea of using his dump truck to carry the lettuce as he picked it so it could easily be transported from farm to kitchen. After picking the lettuce, he used his toy garbage truck to carry weeds away. Such a good helper!

Where did May go?

Believe it or not May was quite a busy month on the farm and nothing was neglected except my blog! We spent much of the time watering, staking and installing a brand new drip system to take care of our edibles while we went on vacation. Hoping it will also save some water by dripping the plants efficiently this summer since we are again in a drought. I also claimed some new dirt along the side of the fence that now houses 3 tomato plants, 2 basil plants and some sunflowers in between. Dante is always helping on the farm and so proud to do a walk thru for visitors, he now has converted our old office in to a playroom for himself. The room has a very old window that actually opens up on to the farm...his new spot to look and see whats growing.

Everything is blooming mostly green and yellow flowers, there are blossoms on the "eight ball" zucchini, green tomatoes on most of the tomato plants, pumpkin and cantaloupe flowers, yellow tomatillo flowers, corn, lots of new basil seedlings and lots of lettuce. The strawberries are just starting to fruit and we now have a handful of Purple Peruvian Peppers...I hope to try those in a salsa soon. We are looking forward to everything being edible soon and blogging again soon ;-)