Hello, friends and hive gardeners Greetings.Hope all of you are doing well and busy with harvesting, preserving process, or preparing and planting.
Here in Norway last month July came with bad weather. rain and wind. mostly produced snails. all my baby plants: squash, beans, beetroot, and lettuce were eaten by snails. Whatever was left was taken over by Calendula bushes. some herbs survived, and our red currant gave us a good harvest, some raspberries and wild strawberries satisfied us. Tomato just flowering we might get tomatoes in winter. this year sweet peas are also mediocre. We have very good compost but didn't help.
All over only calendulas.
Tomato just flowering.
Some herbs:
Thyme, oregano, marjoram, chive, mint, sage only one branch survived in between calendula.
Only two plants of maize.
one single plant of sweet peas on the fence. I am saving those pods to gather the seeds for next year.
One squash plant after noticing all the plants were eaten by snails, I pulled one that was in good shape and planted it in a pot. No expectation of getting squash but at least some flowers would be nice.
Picked some peas that were not pretty on the outside but the seeds were ok to use. One chard plant started going to seed so today i picked some leaves to use in Khichadi.
1:2 lentils and rice washed and soaked added 1/2 cup of peas from the garden 1 potato, and some chopped chard leaves and coriander leaves from the garden.
Spiced butter new in the supermarket, 1tsp cumin, 1/4 turmeric. 2 pinches of hing (Asafoetida), and salt for taste.
After melting the butter add cumin, hing, and turmeric, Add washed lentils, rice, and peas. stir it for 2 minutes.
Chopped potato and chard leaves. Stir for 1 minute.
salt.
Water.
Cover the pressure cooker.
Meanwhile roast papadum.
After 3 blasts the khichadi is ready. Served with papadum, homemade garden-picked lime pickle from our Indian garden. Chili pickle.
This is simple Satvik food normally I make khichadi with moong-dal and rice. Today additionally added some garden vegetables to make a new variety with a good feeling.
This post is my small contribution to the community#gardenhive by 
Thank you very much.
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