It's Raining it's Pouring

It has been very wet lately and after a long bought of sun and extreme heat the plants really needed it. I have bought some beautiful ribbon to make lavender sticks. When I get a bunch made then I will post a picture.
Everything has just exploded in the garden and I can't wait to start to pick. The peas are ready and so are some lettuces. The ground cherries and tomatoes are not far off.
We are hoping to have the road side stand up and running next friday at 1pm. That is at 2207 Chester Road.
We will have peas, herbs, ground cherries and tomatoes if all goes well. Plus a few lavender crafts.
I read about making fire bundles. You use the stems from the lavender and bundle them up after they are dried and you use them start a fire. The lavender gives off a beautiful smell. They also make a great decorations if you but a basket of them by the fireplace.

Finally

Finally some progress. I was thinking it was taking forever for anything to be ready to harvest. Now it seems like everything is coming at once and there are still a million things to do. Plus today it was almost 40 degrees. That is just too hot for words. So things take a little longer to get done. Late in the afternoon the kids and I went for a swim and it was heavenly. Here is some of the lavender that I harvested today. It was nice to have my gardening gloves smell like lavender than some of the other things it has smelled like.

We are hoping to have enough produce to sell by next Friday. We are keeping our fingers crossed and hoping that we can finally make a little money. 

On to the Next Phase

Today I am finally harvesting something other than rhubarb and chives (although I may harvest them as well). I have a ton of oregano and lavender. So my first foray into drying begins. Plus I am going to freeze some as well. It is all an experiment at this phase and we will have to see what works and what does not. In the next few days  we will be harvesting the biggest raspberry bush I have ever seen. We found it on our property in a clearing in the woods. I want to make raspberry jam and maybe freeze some as the kids love smoothies. Hopefully there will be enough to sell as well. Plus I am going to try and take some slips from it to transplant into different areas, so we can have an even bigger harvest next year.

I will get a picture of the raspberry bush and post it. It is too big to believe.

The other chore for today will be to water. The temperature will be over 30 degrees today and my plants are feeling the heat. They need a cool drink to help them through it. I will write more tonight with some pictures.