A day in the garden and a new roof

I did my usual practice in the garden today, starting with opening the greenhouses in the morning, watering seedlings and plants, picking 13 different fixings for a salad, washing and assembling the salad for lunch, then doing more watering in the afternoon.  Here is what it looked like:

The final salad

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The makings of a salad

Broccoli almost ready to pick

Quinoa experiment

1st zucchini

The quinoa growing experiment is going well with seedheads forming.  We also have our first zucchini, a light green type with a creamy texture called Cavili.
We spend alot of time here watching birds.  The Stellar Jays are particularly present at the moment.

Stellar Jay

Our house with new roof

Finally, we had a new roof put on the house last week.  This entailed taking off the solar panels before the roofers did their work, and the re-installing the panels.  I think it looks good. You can see the bottlebrush plant, the angelica plants, and the rust covered garlic in this photo.

Planting, tilling, and an experiment in quinoa

I did get to spend the entire afternoon gardening today.  I first rototilled several sections of the garden to prepare them for planting.  I had to put plants in the ground because they were getting a little overgrown in their seedling containers.  I planted four or five types of lettuce, other varied salad greens like tah tsai and endive, and then planted my big experiment of the year, quinoa, a grain generally grown in South America.  Here are a few pictures.

Quinoa

Concrete bed is full!

For dinner tonight, I picked a lot of asparagus, gave a bunch to a neighbor, and still had plenty to eat over a piece of toast with alfredo sauce.  We also had steamed beets and beet greens also picked today.  Yum!  I love that we have lots of lettuce and other greens as seen in the photo of the concrete bed.
Planting peas tomorrow.