The greens: amaranth, borage, purslane, French sorrel, baby beet and chard.
Baby crookneck squash and blooms
Borage and sunflower petals
Baby carrotsI also threw in some basil and oregano blooms. It's worth noting the borage leaves were quickly blanched and then thrown into an ice bath. They are prickly little suckers!
Dressed up with a simple vinaigrette. Delicious!
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OH! That is fabulous! My borage all died off. Glad to see yours going strong!
We had for dinner last night, two beautiful crooknecks and a pile of green and purple beans. And tomatoes. Tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes. Red, green, yellow, striped, purple, black... Gorgeous, delicious, tomatoes! I have lettuce in a cool lower bed coming along nicely. Oh, and my watercress! Love it!
Don't you love how you might not think you have much for a salad but after a little garden stroll you find a you have a beautiful bowl full?
I keep forgetting that we can eat borage flowers! I'll have to include it in our salad tonight. Unfortunately though it's too dang hot to get lettuce to grow at this time of year, so we have to buy it, which always kills me.
Your carrots look like real fatties. What variety are you growing? I need to consider what to plant next once the salsa garden has expired.
This post reminds me of a comment my Dad made when I pulled out a (store bought) package of mixed baby greens---
He said it looked like all the stuff he pulled out of his lawn as WEEDS. HA!!
Kendra I do love it! I've been doing it more since I read the post on your blog :)
Maybelline those are Red Cored Chantenay carrots. They are tasty little fatties indeed, but in prior years I have found they are better harvested young because they tend to get bitter as they mature moreso than other varieties I have tried. I just happen to have a lot of that seed so I keep planting them :)
Shauna that is funny ;)
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