Kermis is coming-up at the end of the month - a celebration of the bounty of the harvest by the Belgian settlers around these parts. We've been enjoying quite harvest from the garden over the past couple of months. Four crops of radishes, a couple of spinach, English peas and four varieties of lettuce - all cooler weather crops that were planted early spring. The radishes, spinach and peas are done for now and the lettuce is beginning to bolt (although we're still picking enough to salads and sandwiches.) A second sowing of the preceding will be attempted this month for a fall harvest as the weather cools.
In the meantime green beans, cukes, beets, a couple of varieties of cherry tomatoes and sweet peppers have made a strong showing. As a matter of fact a dozen 'family-sized' bags of green beans and a bunch of sweet peppers went to a local food pantry at Holy Name of Mary church in Maplewood for distribution today. I canned seven pints of pickled beets today and they are already stashed in The Bunker.
From the past week there has been this:
Pickle cukes
Blue Lake #274 green beans
What we keep on the counter is "Garden Candy" and it is replenished daily
All of this fresh produce is indeed a blessing and something we're going to miss in February when Ma Nature is slinging frozen sleet at the kitchen windows. Having two kinds of vegetable dip in the fridge at all times is indeed a first-world problem.
Vive le Jardin Magnifique!
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