How does my garden grow?

All dress up in my gardening clogs

Pretty good considering the up and down temps, rain and my late start. But I'm keeping my hopes up with little seedlings coming up my garden. Thinking of getting a couple more plant to put pots to round out the line up.

So far the weeds are doing the best. Tons of wild strawberries in the lawn. They are green so I leave them. The berries are much bigger than last year, maybe they will taste better. 

wild strawberries growing on the side of my veggie garden

My Garden, My Breakfast

So it's terribly hot and humid out and I think my garden is only thing that is enjoying it. I'm getting tomatoes, lettuce (manoa), flat leaf parsley and swiss chard. My beets not so good but I'm eating the greens. Waiting for my carrots. I just put in some scallions and will adding some thai basil, more lettuce seeds and beets seed soon.

As for my breakfast, I've been trying to cut down my carbs fro the last several months. I decided my breakfast this morning would be a salad with lettuce and swiss chard from my garden. Yum!

My breakfast salad with leftover salmon from dinner last night, red pepper, my homemade salsa  and harrisa and splash of balsamic dressing. Maybe next time I'll add a fried egg. My love of harrisa has been a slow rise but I'm definitely on bandwagon now. I love it in my salad.

Did I share last week's farmers market goodies.

4 white peaches for some white peach cupcakes [as soon as the heat goes away] and 3 round squash to be stuffed with ground chicken and today's harvest of swiss chard. I'll try and get some picture of the process. 

Oh yeah! WG bought more strawberries. Yes, 8 more lbs. The only thing I'm thinking of is ice cream at the moment. I just don't want to turn on the oven. I hope it ends soon.

Fresh from my garden

What I've been harvesting. Pretty much the same thing but I have a small garden and I'll take what I get. This is to supplement my farmers market purchased. Anyone who see my dad, let him know his hard work in my garden is paying back plenty all ready.


2 weeks ago: Swiss chard on the left and the radish, beets and lettuce seedlings that I thinned out on the right. I have enough swiss chard for a saute for lunch and added some romaine lettuce to my seedling that made 2 servings of salad. Not too shabby. 

1 week ago: 2.5oz of swiss chard and a couple sprigs of italian parsley


Today: 2.5oz of swiss chard and 2oz of italian parsley. Notice the leaves are bigger. Using last week and this week's harvest to make another quiche for lunch. 

Planted some basil that I got as a gift from some friends. Trimmed the tops off in hope that it start sprouting more shoots. Will use the tops in my quiche.

I also weeded and added some coffee grounds around the plants as fertilizer. I hope it works. 


My tomato plant is getting huge, I think I need to move it from my front steps. It gets lots of sun there and thought my tomato plant would like it there. And apparently, it really does. I have several tomatoes coming in and lots of blossoms. I need to figure out who to stake the plants. Will do that next week.

This is so exciting--especially after last year--with all the weeds I got. More garden updates to come. 

How does my garden grow?

Not very well at the moment. Remember that nice little garden my family help me put in last year. Well, it's currently grow a beautiful lush patch of weeds that the critters brought with them.

I even have a giant weed tree that refuse to die right next to my front door.

But now that I have the skilled gardening experts back at my house, I'm hoping to take advantage of their skill for a trade of jam and cake and maybe even some sweet potato doughnuts.