cat in a bag … homebrew … and a contest for peas!

our cat loves going into bags… even cat-trap bags that somehow fly away!

can i has LET ME DOWN?!

a recent dinner included lettuce from our garden and our CSA, oxbow farms… along with salmon from pike place market, asparagus from PCC and beer mikey brewed!

yum!

and finally, some wildflowers from our climb up silver peak last weekend. fresh peas to anyone who can successfully identify them! (click photos to enlarge)

lupine? ... and viv

red & purple?

red...? and abiel peak

pink...? and malinda

trillium!

post your IDs as comments!

how do you spell tomatoes?

tomatoes? tomatos? either way, we have one!

baby tomato + flowers!

and the peas are splendid! i have eaten many… its funny how the taste gets so much better when they’re fatter. i usually have at least one on my ride to work in the morning…

big peas! lots of peas!

the pea plants are getting so big they’re threatening to pull the whole structure down. time for some reinforcements.

oh and the beans are getting fiesty too. they need some serious upward-heading strings, if they are to become pole beans…

first fruits!

the tomatoes and peas flowered a few days ago…

flowering pea plants!

and then yesterday i looked at the garden and WE HAD BABY PEAS!!! TONS! And big ones too! 1-2 inches long. Yum yum yum…

baby peas!

first peas!

who wants to help eat them?

explosive growth

the recent heat wave (90 degrees in seattle) did more than make me really tired from biking to work… it also made our garden explode! sadly, some of the lettuce died because it couldn’t stand the heat. but on the positive side, the peas went crazy (grew over a foot in a few days!), and everything else is looking great.

plot 1: tomato explosion

broc, lettuce, peppers, tomatos, big tomatos

plot 2: pea explosion

peas huge! and beans coming along

plot 3: zucchini explosion

zucchini lower left quadrant; broccoli lower right quadrant

boxes & trays: lettuce and more little plants coming along well

lettuce & dill in boxes; seed starts coming along in egg trays

fully planted

our 3 plots are fully planted! in #1 (southernmost) we have 2 tomato starts in cages, as well as a ton of little plants that viv started from seed: broccoli, peppers, and more tomatoes.

plot #1: brocc, pepp, tomat.

in #2 (middle) we have the peas (now huge!) and beans and some lettuce alongside.

peas growing rapidly, beans & lettuce too

in #3 (abutting the disputed borderzone) we have zucchini hills as well as tomatoes and broccoli (not pictured yet):

viv plants zucchini

actually all of the plots have growing amazingly since then, after a bunch of rain and then this week of 80-90 degree heat. the peas have skyrocketed and are flowering! i’ll post more photos soon.

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