Memorial Day Part 2

First Radish Harvest!

What a beautiful day! Lots of planting done now that compost and mulch is down, fence is up around lower vegetable garden and for the peas, and beds are prepared. It is finally time to plant.

Planting today began after coffee and Rhubarb bread (see Memorial Day Part 1 for recipe).

Then for lunch we had our first radish sandwich!

Radish Sandwich -

2 pieces of Rye bread
several radishes (fresh from garden)
herb butter (directions below) (I used chives, chervil, french tarragon, oregano, sage, garlic chives because they are what were in the garden)

Slice 3-6 radishes - thick slices
Spread herb butter on one slice of Rye bread
Put them all together into a sandwich and that's it! Eat and enjoy!!

Herb Butter -

1/2 stick real butter - room temperature
Handful of assorted herbs from garden (whatever is growing)
Finely mince herbs and blend them into the butter

Back to gardening....

Our garden cart - love this cart!

I planted three types of beans, Provider for making dilly beans. French Haricots verts and Italian Roma beans for eating. Also planted more parsley and dill, slicing cucumbers, nasturtiums, zucchini, yellow squash, and a 3rd planting of radishes, carrots, and lettuce. Transplanted cauliflower. In the side garden I planted Connecticut Field pumpkins. I took off the row cover from the first planting of lettuce, beets, radishes, spinach, and carrots. These plants look great! I hope I didn't take the cover off too early. I did see some flea beetles but hope the plants are now large enough to withstand them. We will see.

More plantings to come tomorrow - more squashes, pie pumpkins, flowers, herbs. Need to move more plants in the herb garden to continue expanding the kitchen herb section. Later in the week or even next weekend in will go the tomato and pepper plants and corn seed. I usually wait until the first of June to put those last three in, just to be sure it's warm enough.