In the Gardens Again

58°f this morning, partly cloudy. 

We were back in the garden this morning after leaving it to fend for itself a few days. And fend it did! 

This is my late garden, or part of it anyway--2 kinds of lettuce in the row on the right (one kind, Parrish Island, is like Romaine but did mot germinate very well), then dwarf kale with something I think was supposed to be Easter Egg radishes but seems to be a mix of turnips, radishes, and parsnips! The next row is the bok choi and turnips. The wee leeks are invisible in the last row to the left that sports a random bok choi---I guess I dropped a seed.

The squash seem to have no intention of stopping production.

There was another worker in the garden today too.

Bok choi. I need recipes! 

Almost a half bushel of beans, half of a 10-quart bucket of cucumbers that i gave to my friend Tamara, a dozen or more squash and zucchini (also given to Tamara(, a couple quarts of cherry tomatoes, half a dozen big maters, and lettuce, bok choi, and turnips.

So my afternoon was spent getting all this cleaned up  and put away and getting the beans snapped and canned. Bok choi is new to me; I have never grown or eaten it before but it is thriving in my garden so I am on the lookout for recipes. Today I made one that combined the bok choi and mushrooms. I used chives in place of green onions and added some very thinly sliced turnips to the stir-fry.  It was delicious, and definitely on my make-again list.

The lettuce and radishes I planted Thursday are already up, thanks to the recent rain. No rain is in the forecast for this whole week, though, so I will be watching these little baby plants to see if they will need watering. Can you see the little things?

That's the radishes above, below is lettuce. So, so tiny.

While the beans were in the canner, I changed up my glass on the buffet to reflect the changing season. Amber, I think, is the perfect autumn color. This glass is all well over 100 years old, and one piece is 150 or so.