Week 9 Many colors in flowers and produce

Sunflowers with soft green centers, Sweet William in varying hues, light purple Joe Pye Weed, and blue blooming Cardoon grace the first four buckets.

Dahlias. I love the bright and the pale colors.

More dahlias, some spiky, some single petaled and flat, others like a pom pom. Lovely.

Lilies with their pollen/anthers standing out like little orange dust mops. The edges or margins of these petals are like highlights.

Zinnias.

Gladiolas. A wide variety of colors.

Gold and lime green zinnias with a pink Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate hanging out.

Yellow yarrow and calla lilies.

Blue Glitter Sea Holly in all its blue, sharp spikes.

It's hard for me to pick a favorite zinnia. This pale pink one is in the running.

Bright crocosmia. These add a different texture to our bouquets.

Bright purple and lavender glads.

Daylilies, pastel yarrow and bright purple glads.

Blue flowering cardoon. It is in the same family as artichokes.

Blue scabiosa.

Different sunflowers, including Teddy Bear.

White tipped dahlia petals.

Today's yellow carrots. One lone orange carrot hiding out.

Orange beets Florencio just washed. They are dripping off on the cart.

Beautiful savoy cabbage.

A few red fleshed plums.

Some of the early cantaloupe are what we call "single serving" size. Some of them are full sized in this container.

Slicing cucumbers stacked up.

Light green rinds on the honeydew in the cart full of watermelon.

Dividing up the beets and carrots.

Alison gets comfortable to pick the tiny Sour Mexican Gherkins.

Florencio picking green beans.

Little Louise helps put the cabbage in the boxes.
Avrie secures the cart.

Louise coming back for another cabbage.

Gorgeous yellow flowers with calla lily leaves.

White lilies, blue delphinium along with white dahlias and blue salvia.

Ahhh, a pastel pink bouquet. Yarrow, dahlias and glads. 

A bright pink bouquet with lilies, yarrow and zinnias.

Tall blue Russian sage with blue scabiosa and yellow zinnias.

Today's "extra table" instructions.

Items in week 9's harvest box.

The size of the Sour Mexican Gherkins that Alison was picking.

Now, are these the hot jalapenos or the mild "Fooled You" jalapenos? They look the same!

Week 8 Tuesday before a family wedding!

These coneflowers attract butterflies. We have several varieties blooming right now.

A Swallowtail butterfly has landed. Just right of center.

Part of this one's right side is missing, towards the bottom.

Captivating. I watched for quite a while.

So pretty. It is eating down deep in the flower.

This one is on the white scabosia or pincushion flower.

Emma is like a "butterfly whisperer". She almost touched it! This has both of its tail parts so is a different one than the one on the coneflowers.

 Some of today's carrots are orange and some are yellow. 

Red and orange beets.

Pearl onions.

The greenhouse tomatoes are earning their keep. They are producing quite a few ripe tomatoes.

Creamy smooth yellow zucchini.

Anna pickled some yellow crookneck squash overnight. Crunchy and tasty!

Anna put this together. Tomatoes, fresh basil, mozzarella with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. Oh where to start for lunch today?

Possibly start with the veggie tempera? Onions, zucchini, and okra.

And dessert, oh my, a lemon golden zucchini pound loaf with lemon icing.

And if that wasn't enough, THE MOST delicious herb filled meatloaf you would ever want to eat. And moist, too.

I almost forgot the dipping sauce for the tempera. Are we spoiled? YES.

Jan on the left and Grams on the right enjoy lunch in the shade of the black walnut tree. Nice back drop, too.

Caught their attention between bites.

This is what golden zucchini lemon pound cake drizzled with lemon icing looks like on the inside. So yummy.

Lisa and Emma trim the potted herbs that we grew from seed this year. My daughter, Alex, is getting married this coming Saturday and we will be using flowers from the farm at the wedding in Imbler, Oregon. Lisa will pick on Thursday and put them into water filled buckets. She will then drive them to Imbler on Friday (about 300 miles) and organize 11 bridesmaid bouquets and 55 large and 55 small table bouquets on Saturday morning. (It all turned out beautiful! Thanks, Lisa so very much.)

My husband Bryan is installing some shelves for Lisa in her flower house. Yup, all level.

Another shelf goes up. These will free up table top space for Lisa's flower arranging.

Parts all over the place, while there is still room. Lisa is out picking and he is trying to finish before she needs the space.

Angie and Rosa head out to pick with the golf cart. All the kiddos love riding on it. They usually have to walk in as the cart fills up with produce. AND there are strict rules when riding.

A few blackberries today. Sylvans, Waldos, Siskiyou berries.

Large heads of solid cabbage.

A few pickling cucumbers in the pink bucket and a lot of slicing cucumbers behind them.

Nap time. Is it my turn? Such good kiddos.

Herb pots ready for pick up. Many zinnias that won't be used for the wedding this weekend (not quite the right colors) are available for bouquets today.

Bright colors are available today. Soft romantic colors, not so much.

Today's instructions.

Colorful zinnias available for bouquets today.

Today's list. Thanks for the note at the bottom Anna. :)

See you next time on the blog.
Lorrie