Fresh is best!

 Maybe...we'll see.  This is my first time making Pico de Gallo, so I really won't know until our dinner guest tastes it and either tells me it's passable, or she spits it into her napkin and tells me to maybe try again.

At any rate.

My tomatoes, onion, jalapeno, and a lime I purchased with my own two hands.  My mother can't deal with cilantro, so I used some freshly snipped parsley instead.  And to think, I put that 3 year old parsley plant out on the porch to succumb to the elements!  I suppose it's earned its spot back under the grow light for the winter again, especially with the impending potato harvest.  We do love parsley and buttered boiled potatoes.

And I'm also quite proud of the yarrow plants I grew from seed this winter.  Some of them have bloomed and I've been very happy with the soft color palette.

The verbena bonariensis has finally come to.  I can only hope it self seeds, it's just beautiful.

The buddleia has bloomed and the pollinators are all over it.

My late planted cukes are finally starting to stretch out.  Hopefully they'll produce fruit before the growing season ends!  I'm glad I thought to leave the dried pea vines intact, the cukes are using those to cling to.

 We had the first taste of the Sugar Buns sweet corn last night.  I was a little disappointed that it wasn't picture perfect, but the flavor...unbelievable! I can't wait for more to ripen.

 

I'm happy to report we're still getting on and off rain, so I'm feeling better about my newly transplanted perennials now.  Not sure how this big guy feels about the soggy weather, though.