Food is coming out of dirt in my yard.

At the end of last week, I made chicken and spinach with spinach that I grew in my raised bed garden. I didn't know that you can just cut off the leaves, and so I uprooted the plants. Had I not done that, I might have been able to get a second crop of spinach this year. Still, it was quite tasty.

Yesterday, I made a Caesar-like salad with lettuce from the garden. With luck, I might get a second crop out of that.

Earlier last week, I was thinning out the kohlrabi plants (you plant them thickly and then thin them out to four plants per square foot), and realized that the sprouts tasted pretty good, and like kohlrabi, so I diced some tuna steaks, and sauteed the sprouts, tuna, and some daikon radish, and marinated them in soy sauce, sesame oil, and ginger.

So, so far, I've cooked three meals with stuff from our garden.

The early-blooming lilacs have finished blooming, but one of the mid-bloomers is about to bloom. I have a plum tree that I planted at the side of the house. The strawberry plants seem to be doing well, and are putting up flowers. The raspberry bushes are getting the little buds that will eventually become raspberries. The honeysuckle I put in hasn't died yet; the catnip has. The hops vines are sprouting and seem to be doing well.

I bought a fig tree, which I'm growing in a pot, so I can take it inside over the winter.

The yard is coming together.