What's growing & ripening ->
#Strawberries
Royal burgundy #beans
Oregon #snowpeas
Red Acre #cabbage

Swiss #chards growing. They've been harvested a few times already & still producing nice leaves & stalks.
I like letting some chard leaves grow super large & use them as a substitute wrapper for tamales.

#Tomatoes & green #tomatillos are finally ripening up

My red #romaine #lettuce babies have been transplanted

Making some Chinese spinach & mustard greens soup for myself & my Mom. It will help our bodies cool down from inside out. Many different Asian hot soups have nutritional benefits & natural body cool down effects.

Some #figs are ready to harvest.

I grow 4 kinds of #sorrel on year round basis - common garden sorrel, Arctic dock, Belleville sorrel & Patience dock. The assorted sorrel salad greens pots are moved into small greenhouse in Winter. I do succession sowing every 2 weeks for continous harvest. I let the strongest plants go to seed & use those seeds to grow more.

My baby red #lettuce #plants in a large pot with one #cucumber plant. These aren't my Yugoslavian red lettuces - those have ruffled leaves. The seeds I sowed are from a local Saanich small farm. I forget the variety.

I'm a pot-head. I have an addiction to garden pots.

Letting a few of my Yugoslavian red #lettuce #plants flower out & go to seed. I'll tap them & collect to sow/save/share.

Good morning, fedi friends.
I picked some pretty big #strawberries from our #FoodGarden

Some new #FoodPlant #seeds have arrived

Transplanted some of my #BokChoy & purple #tomatillo plants into larger pots. These starters are all being picked up this weekend by a few of my regular plant buyers here. There's some folks who get plants from me, every year

Don't toss/compost your homegrown #PepperLeaves. #Harvest them because they're food. They can be used as herbs substitute if you don't have basil or mints. They can be cooked & eaten. They're nutritious, so start eating your pepper leaves!

Mom had told me that in her matriarch village, our relations grew & harvested #peppers & #leaves for many generations. It's used in many different Asian cultures as both food & medicine.

Pepper leaves #HealthBenefits

#Antioxidants -
Pepper leaves are rich in antioxidants, which help protect the body from damage caused by free radicals.

#AntiInflammatory -
Pepper leaves have anti-inflammatory properties that help reduce inflammation in the body.

#DigestiveHealth -
Pepper leaves can aid in digestion and reduce stomach upset.

#ImmunityBoost -
Pepper leaves contain vitamins and minerals that help boost the immune system

I used these harvested pepper leaves to fry up with garlic & eggs for my Mom It's #DiabeticFriendly

Early morning garden harvest - some of my Hungarian lettuce & some grapes.

A few of our #cucumbers are still growing.
Some large Oregon #snowpeas.
Ongoing soil remediation project is making slow & steady progress. Cardboard, topsoil, compost, woody debris, crushed seashells, seaweed, grass cuttings, leaf mulch are all breaking down together nicely.

Morning, mixed #tomatoes #harvest from our backyard. I have maybe 1 or 2 more tomato harvests left for this season.

Two more galia #cantaloupes that I grew & harvested.
These fruit melons are super sweet, juicy & delicious.

Morning garden harvest.

Probably the last of my yellow #beans for this season.

Benefits of work from home days, harvesting from my garden on lunch break

My first #galia #cantaloupe #harvest
It's super juicy, sweet & delicious!

Galia is a type of cantaloupe that's a cross between a cantaloupe & a honeydew. The fruit is light green on the inside, when ripened.