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    Home » Garden

    Published: Jul 8, 2019 · Modified: Jan 20, 2022 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 garden

    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! 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!

    Harvesting kale and zucchini from the garden.
    Kale chips and Roasted Zucchini with dinner tonight
    Garden fresh cauliflower

    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 omelettes, Bacon Kale Spaghetti and Healthy "Greens" 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 baking into Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins or Healthy Zucchini Cookies.

    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.
    Starting to get some flowers to cut
    Zucchini plant in a raised bed vegetable garden.
    Garden bed full of tomato plants.
    Close up photo of Rainbow Swiss Chard.
    Rainbow Swiss Chard
    Green Bell Pepper growing in the garden.
    Green Bell Peppers for Homemade Pizza night!
    Strawberries growing in the garden.
    Perfect for our favorite Strawberry Shortcake!
    Raised Bed Vegetable Gardens
    Veggie Garden Plants, zucchini.
    Lettuce growing in the garden.
    Garden fresh lettuce for Chopped Dinner Salad with Roasted Potatoes.
    Spinach and basil growing in a window box planter.
    Window boxes are full of Spinach, basil, cilantro, and lettuce.
    Breakfast with eggs on toast with garden fresh spinach.
    Lots of spinach in our eggs!

    Close up shot of garden zucchini.
    Zucchini going into Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins!
    Mulberries ripening on the tree.
    Mulberries ripening on the tree.
    Bowl of Harvested Mulberries.
    Tons of mulberries in the freezer for smoothies, plan to make Mulberry Freezer Jam.
    Window box planter of basil.
    Window box basil, from just 1 packet of seeds!
    Pesto Alfredo Pasta
    Making that basil into plenty of Pesto for the Freezer to make Pesto Alfredo Pasta all winter long!

    Recipes from the Garden!

    • Mulberry Freezer Jam
    • Homemade Pizza - The Complete Process
    • Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
    • Grilled Vegetables with Yogurt Sauce
    A child with a handful of garden picked strawberries.
    Picking their own snacks!
    « Healthy Super "Greens" Hummus
    In the Garden Year 1 - late July and August »

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