In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen

Since we were in Seattle last Monday, I have two weeks of harvests to share. As usual, an extra suitcase was stuffed with garden produce to share with my son’s family. TSA in San Diego must know me by now.

‘Baby Ball’ and ‘Sweet Merlin’ beets from Renee’s Garden perform well for me every year with good flavor and texture at any size.

Lacinato kale

My daughter-in-law, Sarah is especially fond of my garden kale so she received the first substantial harvest (or rather, what I had room for).

She also requested tangerines which neatly fit in a plastic container for travel.

Carrots also fair well in a suitcase and I hastily pulled some ‘Bolero’ Nantes carrots and a few of the under-sized tri-color carrots.

Before departing for Seattle, this was one of my salads with orange cauliflower, carrots and calendula petals.

A few days before I left, I made sweetened oven-dried orange slices to share with Andy and Sarah. And I do love them too. You can read more about them in an earlier post here.

And since we have an orange theme going in the last few images, here’s the garden bouquet I made for the church entry this morning. From the garden, calendulas, feverfew, watsonia and native coral bells.

You may enjoy seeing what other garden bloggers harvested last week at Harvest Monday hosted by Dave at Our Happy Acres.