Garden Roundup for June 2023

I’m still trying to figure out what to do with this blog.  One thing I figured I could do would be monthly roundups of what our farm/garden has produced.

If my tracking is correct, in June our chickens gave us 132 eggs.  Which, is far more than we can use.  Most of them we give away to family or neighbors. 

In June, I’ve continued picking leaf lettuce.  It seems like every three or four days I pick enough for three or four sandwiches.  I don’t know how much longer this first patch will continue to produce, it’s starting to get a bit ragged, but a second patch is already growing.  During June I’ve started to pick red currants, red raspberries, wild strawberries, and peas.  And just today, I picked our first black raspberries and blueberries of the season.  I don’t know if our late frost messed up the currants, or if the birds don’t have anything else to eat, but I’ve pretty much picked them clean and only have maybe a cup.  Some years I have ten times that without seeming like I picked any.  They’ll likely just get mixed in with the red raspberries – which we might get more of, there’s a couple patches out in the farm I need to check on – and some black raspberries to make some jelly.  We don’t have that many strawberries, and I’m not sure what we’ll do with them.  The black raspberries and blueberries are loaded, so we should get a lot of them.  The peas have just started producing, so we’ll probably get a bunch of them over the next month or so.

Finally, we’ll probably a week or so away from our first zucchini.  And I also just noticed today our beans are starting to bloom.  So we’ll be picking green beans before the end of July.