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    Sungrown Kitchen » Garden

    Published: Jul 8, 2019 · Modified: Sep 13, 2023 by Meryl Downing Leave a Comment

    In the Garden Year 1 - July

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    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.

    Close up photo of Rainbow Swiss Chard.

    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!

    A bouquet of fresh cut flowers from the garden in a vase.
    Zucchini plant in a raised bed vegetable garden.
    Garden bed full of tomato plants.

    A green bell pepper is going onto our Friday night Homemade Pizza!

    Green Bell Pepper growing in the garden.

    The berries are ready to make our favorite Strawberry Shortcake or maybe a Rhubarb Berry Crisp!

    Strawberries growing in the garden.
    Raised Bed Vegetable Gardens with a hedge of juniper trees around it.

    I love having the kids out picking their own snacks!

    Child holding a handful of fresh picked strawberries.

    Garden fresh lettuce for Chopped Dinner Salad with Roasted Potatoes or this Italian Mixed Greens Salad with Crispy Prosciutto.

    Lettuce growing in the garden.
    Zucchini and squash plants overflowing a cedar raised garden bed.

    The window boxes are full of spinach, basil, cilantro, and lettuce and we'll be making lots of Freezer Pesto to use in Pesto Alfredo Pasta.

    Basil and spinach growing in a window box planter.

    Lots of spinach going into our eggs!

    Breakfast with eggs on toast with garden fresh spinach.

    Mulberries ripening on the tree. I'm saving ton in the freezer for smoothies, and plan to make Mulberry Freezer Jam.

    Mulberries ripening on the tree.
    Bowl of Harvested Mulberries on the table with a flag for the 4th of July.

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