The Persistent Gardener

I cannot get my directly sowed beans and peas to germinate this year. With Mrs. Cheryl's help, I coated another set of pea and bean seeds with legume inoculant and re-planted again. Hopefully second time's a charm.

Do you see any pea plants in this supposed row of peas? 
Nope.  Me neither.
Lots of weeds though.
Sigh.

I also harvested our third round of CSA baskets today.

This week’s basket includes: green leaf, red leaf and iceberg lettuces, spinach, garland, arugula, watercress, chard, radishes, red scallions, cabbage/broccoli/cauliflower leaves, kale, dill, curly and flat leaf parsley, mint, sage leaves, sweet basil, chives, Chinese cabbage, pea shoots, daikon micro greens, wasabi mustard micro greens, red clover micro greens, and a dozen farm fresh eggs.

This week’s bonus item was the chive blossom-infused vinegar.

Here is our favourite homemade salad dressing recipe in case you are feeling inspired to make your own special vinegar.

Lemon-Chive Salad Dressing

2 tbs lemon juice
2 tbs chive vinegar
2-4 tbs olive oil (depends on your taste)
2 tbs maple syrup
1 tbs Dijon mustard
2 cloves of garlic crushed
Salt & pepper to taste
Fresh herbs of your choice chopped

Shake hard to emulsify and serve immediately over fresh greens.

Finally, while I cannot take any credit for it, Liam is also practising persistence - not in the gardening department but in the tooth losing one.  He lost his second baby tooth today.  Very exciting.

Happy Summer Solstice everyone!  

P.S. Please keep an eye out for any debaucherous tooth fairies and send them our way.  Especially if you happen to see them stealing any pea or bean seeds - they may be white but those are not teeth!