Good morning Fam,

This week we were surprised with some really fun times in the garden. Jeremy and I took a bit of time to clean up the outside of the homestead and now we have a truck filled with trash. We plan to make a dump run and then go for round two of cleaning up on the homestead. I have to say, I so greatly appreciate that Jeremy has been going with the flow and helping me find some peace. For some reason the outdoors just was getting a little annoying to myself and I wanted a nice clean up. So that is just what we did. I also made sure to mow the yard while it was nice out!

I had been planning for this time for a bit here but one of the things I absolutely wanted to do was harvest from the garden. I have been dead set that we were done with harvesting. I didn’t think we would receive anything else but I was so pleasantly surprised that we have more to pick!! We ended up getting another small harvest basic of tomatoes. To which I just literally sat down to write this blog and was like “what should I do with the tomatoes.” Now paint me surprised because I realized I never made a tomato pie! How dare me!! So I plan to make a few of them and see how many we can get out of the tomatoes we harvested.

We also have a ton of basil that bolted but some we caught in time that we harvested and the plant can continue to grow if it wants. The ones that bolt, I plan to go harvest tomorrow and will  dry that out. I am hoping to have some basil that didn’t bolt and plan to use that tomorrow as well. I think a nice basil with the tomato pie would be lovely.

Lastly, I am so excited that we harvested poblanos as well. We had a difficult hot pepper year so I am just excited that we even got any. So with that, I think we will end up making some dip with this one. Not fully sure what dip as I am still looking for some recipes to make. But I am excited to try something new!!

So this harvest was a small harvest but I absolutely didn’t expect any of this so I was so surprised. I knew we had some flowers and I saw maybe 5 tomatoes on the vine but I still didn’t expect this amount. There is actually a few more tomatoes on the vine and we will see how long they last!!

As I write this, tomorrow I plan to take bit of time to harvest before the rain comes. So hopefully we will have more to work with soon!!