Saturday Garden

 Hi Everyone!

 

This is NOT the year to NOT have a garden. OMG! I made a quick drive over to the store yesterday morning to get a few veggies. 

Ice burg lettuce was $3.49 a pound. Are they effin kidding me?

I have lettuce, spinach and beets starting to show up in my big garden but that doesn't help me today. No, I did NOT pay that price.

We know who to thank for this.

 

 On a happier note, today is my Son's birthday. He is 57. Last year I wrote that he was 57 but I was a year off. EEKKK!!! 

My Son and DIL at the fair 

Yumm corn dogs

 

Back to gardening 

Just starting to come up.

Spinach 

 

Beets 

  

I have several types of lettuce.

 

In our natural area I noticed foxglove blooming. 

 

and in the back Salvia is starting to bloom I'm very happy because it's been storming, cold and windy.

I did get some romaine at the other store in town. I washed and dried it then put it into quart size mason jars. 

 

I've showed this trick before with my food saver, but that has bit the dust. Last year  I got a hand held sealer. 

 

place a new or used canning jar lid on the jar. Then push the sealer on, press the button and watch the air get removed from the jar. When the sealer is done it makes a pufff sound.

 

Screw on  the ring, label and place in the fridg. This lettuce will last about 3 months. I use small canning jars to preserve herbs this way. They last so much longer.

 

To end this post here is a little guy that comes to visit everyday. He turned his head just as I snapped the shot.

 

Have a nice Saturday

Nicole