Eat your veggies
A month or more ago I showed you a picture of my garage wall and a patch of dirt in front of it. Now it is covered with pea vines falling off their trellis and last night we had peas for dinner, along with baby carrots thinned out from the rows. The meal (mashed potatoes, hardboiled eggs, new peas and carrots) was simple and clean and reminded me of my childhood, which often featured meat and two veg. No meat nowadays, though.
Ella particularly wanted to plant peas and carrots this year. She helped me sow the seeds, and she's been checking the pea pods everyday for the past week or two to see if they're ready. She even enjoyed shelling them, and worked out a system for getting the little stalk off each pea. I don't remember being that into gardening when I was younger. Maybe because it tended to be men's work in my extended family. Father, uncles, grandfathers - the veggie garden was their domain.
