Green Thumb

Today was the perfect day to spend in the garden. It wasn’t too hot and it wasn’t too cold. If you haven’t seen the Bradrick garden then you’re missing out. The Kitchen garden and the greenhouse sit directly outside the back door. The greenhouse is filled with lovely smells of basil, thyme, and rosemary. The cherry tomatoes are almost ready to be picked as bunches of green novices’ crowd each branch making it hard for the plant to lift its leafy arm. The bees’ love the lovely purple flowers that decorate the low climbing thyme which make the greenhouse hum with the working song of these busy insects.

The kitchen garden is filled with all kinds of wonderful vegetables that make for a virtual salad bar before your very eyes. Red leaf lettuce and Romaine lettuce bunch together near rows and rows of juicy carrots. The beets and garlic and chives all clamor for more room as beautiful nasturtium blooms at the end of each row. Even sage and Echinacea perfume sweetly amongst the chives and various flowers. The far rows contain broccoli and the purple and green leaves of large heads of cabbage. It is hard not to get a recipe file flipping through your head as you pick each vegetable. As we weeded the garden I kept seeing steamed broccoli with cheese sauce, fresh sweet and sour coleslaw, and tossed Caesar salad! I don’t think it’s weeding that works up an appetite; it’s all the food you have to pass by on each aisle!

Tonight I think we will have a chicken Caesar salad with fresh baked rolls and raspberries and cream (thanks for the suggestion Cecily!). I would write more but I think I hear my stomach growling and those of my two hungry cowpokes. Goodnight and may you have a dinner fixed with loving hands and a loving family surrounding your table.
Whatsoever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord. Colossians 3:23