Counting my blessings....
I feel so blessed to have a garden, with flowers and little dribbles of food (we certainly cannot live on what I grow!) ......... and butterflies ...... and a peaceful place to sit and enjoy it all. There was some lovely soft seaweed on the beach yesterday afternoon, so we gathered a couple of bagfuls. I laid it out as mulch on the asparagus bed, but clearly will have to get some more. I am sure I can be talked into another walk on the beach some time soon. This asparagus stalk was chopped up and divided between the two of us - tender all the way to the bottom. The Mary Washington is skinny little stalks as you can see in the background. I have decided I will go ahead and plant some more purple asparagus seeds. Look! I have some eggplant too :) Purple basil - this is such awesome basil - leaves of this and also amaranth, parsley and lettuce were added to the leafy mix of our salad. I guess we are getting ...