In the Garden Year 1 - July - Sungrown Kitchen

It's the first year in our Raised Bed Veggie Garden in July! We're harvesting strawberries, zucchini, basil, kale, spinach, lettuce, mulberries and more! Find all our favorite summer harvest garden recipes!

Raised bed vegetable gardens with plants growing in July.

The Garden Harvest has Begun!

July 7, 2019

The garden is starting to give! It's our first July harvests since building our Raised Bed Garden last year. Dinner menus are beginning to plan themselves and trips to the grocery store are needed less often!

A bowl of harvested kale and zucchini from the garden in front of a raised bed.

I'm absolutely loving this garden, I'm hooked for life! As a chef and foodie enthusiast, being able to grow your own food is as wonderful as I had hoped it would be! The kids are getting their hands dirty too, vegetable picking and helping, it's our favorite place to be!

A head of cauliflower growing in the garden.

What's Cooking in the July Garden?

We are cooking what we are growing these days! Dinner sides have been simple salads and kale chips. Garden greens are going into everything, like Pesto for the Freezer, omelettes, Bacon Kale Spaghetti and Cilantro Lime Hummus.

We are loading up our morning smoothies with mulberries and a few bits of spinach. The zucchinis are starting to come in and we love them just simply grilled or baked into Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins or Healthy Zucchini Cookies.

Close up shot of garden zucchini growing on the plant.

Often my favorite thing to harvest is just beautiful flowers! Flowers around the yard and near the garden help bring those pollinators to your veggie plants, and I just love a vase of fresh cut flowers inside!