Being open once a week has been so invigorating. And manageable! The garden isn’t overgrown. Things have gotten planted. Lots of things! It’s looking to be a wonderful gardening year.

Got some cattle panel (hog panel?) Hoopy hoops up. I planted the hardy kiwi and the hood mother stallard beans there.

I did one more of them over with the giant grape vine. I say giant because it is the largest I have, but I know it has potential to get much larger, especially with a place to climb.

I do have many other grape vines. I might get more panels up for them. They didn’t really want to grow last year, but that may have been due to weed competition. This year I’m feeling much more confident in that aspect.

Also have dragon tongue beans planted. Don’t think I ever planted the purple teepee. I had though those were runner beans. Apparently not! They are bush beans. As are my black turtle beans that I also did not plant….yet?

I have a Mandan variety of corn. Montana Lavender Clay Corn. It is a flour corn. I have a “decobber” and milk this year. So it would be pretty cool to make my own corn flour. I also purchased a large container of einkorn wheat berries. Thinking of starting to bake bread with it. I have read that fresh ground whole wheat bread really is that much better for you nutritionally than sourdough or others. I look forward to giving that a try in the coming…amount of time.

It is too hot to garden today. But I may get to the front yard’s flower beds while it is still morning.

Oh! And I got another row of potatoes in. So now I will have Terra Rosa (a pink outside and in) BlackBerry. (You can guess the color) and Kennebec (buttery delish)

I also have French fingerlings that I could maybe still manage to find a place for.

I have one row that is filled and ready, but I’m pretty sure I am going to plant my Quinalt strawberries there. I have many strawberry beds, and many raspberry beds, I will let you know when I have reached the “We have too many we need to sell some” status. I feel that may never happen. We haven’t even reached “put ‘em in the freezer” status. And I am trying to decide. I think selling them fresh may happen before turning them to jam. There’s just something so precious about fresh strawberries and raspberries, I can’t bring myself to turn them into jam.

I do want to find out if I can make a gooseberry jam though. I’ve heard gooseberry pie is what I should make. But that honestly doesn’t sound appealing. Maybe gooseberry tarts. That’s cute!

I do have some rhubarb that didn’t sell in the farmstand so I may make something out of that.

I had a wonderful lady ask for some rhubarb, and said she would bake me a pie in return. My oh my was that a treat! Huckleberry rhubarb pie! The best you’ve ever tasted! I am drooling in remembrance of that pie.