Heaven

Who can help but smile when it's summer and the garden is going crazy?

We started our raspberries two years ago, added more last year and got about 5 berries, and finally...

YES!!! This is our second batch, but we ate the first one too quickly to share a picture with you.

Tonight's dinner: chard, spinach, salad greens, and raspberries. I was home alone, but I resisted the urge to eat all the raspberries myself, because my husband loves them. And I'm not a jerk. 

A second batch of garlic scapes - the real reason I grow garlic.

(ooh, and that's the new wildflower bed behind the fence...more on that later

Here is what I made with them the other night. I'm not really a measuring kind of girl unless I'm following someone's recipe who is a measuring kind of person. Sorry about that. But if you try this, you may want to adjust your amounts to your taste anyways. This is a super fast and really delicious dinner. The teenager had three helpings. 

Ingredients

1 box of angel hair pasta

A few tablespoons of olive oil

Grated parmesan cheese

5 or 6 scapes

Thyme

Basil

Tofu (if you're into that)

Chop scapes, thyme and basil together (can be done by hand, I used a Cuisinart chopper). Prepare angel hair according to directions. Toss scape/herb mixture, olive oil, and parmesan in with the pasta and serve. I served with a side of spinach from the garden. YUM.

(If you choose to use tofu): drain and press tofu and saute in a pan with seasoned salt, italian seasonings, whatever floats your boat. I like to pan a flat pan lid on top of the tofu while it cooks. It speeds ups the process and gives the tofu great texture.

Happy gardening and eating! 

*!#$^&* Tomatoes!!

I know, my last post was SO upbeat! SO "you can do this Wyoming gardeners!" Well, I have failed at my own advice. I think I have blossom rot. A gardening center employee told me she doesn't think so, but in her defense, this was after I told her I had 2 beautiful tomatoes hanging on beside all the dead blossoms.

I only had 2 tomatoes on my Big Beef plant. As a friend was admiring them today, I made a sad discovery.

One second I was all "look at my beautiful tomatoes!"

And then I turned one over. Aw hell....day officially ruined.

A (blurry, sorry) picture of one of the bad blossoms. They are drying and falling off.

The hope I'm holding onto - healthy blossoms and buds about to bloom.

Here's my theory, based on my recent, very (un)scientific research: 

TOMATOES DO NOT LIKE HUGE FLUCTUATIONS IN TEMPERATURE. 

Our temps have been going from 40 at night to sometimes 90 during the day. As stated in my last blog post, I believed 45 degrees was when the plants should hide in the garage. 

I was wrong. There, I said it.

60 degrees, Wyoming gardeners, 60 degrees. So, the plants are coming into the garage every night now. I'm also going to try calcium chloride, as recommended for blossom rot. I will pick some up and report back.

Sigh...