Summer Salads

I love when food looks pretty as well as tastes good.  Summer salads are often so much prettier than winter ones.  Here is last night's example:

Boston and iceberg lettuces, red grapes, blue borage blossoms, orange nasturtium flowers, purslane

The flowers and the purslane were from our garden; the lettuces and grapes from the market. 

My husband looping a trailing vine of the winter squash up onto the trellis. As you can see in the left bed, I planted too many tomatoes, but after last year, I couldn't help myself.

     My garden is doing its thing - we are getting pretty good at going vertical - the nasty rose we transplanted/uprooted (which I am waiting for some rosarian to tell me was a rare heirloom) was on an old and somewhat rusty green trellis. Instead of ditching it, we gave it a new life for another season or two - before it rusts through - as a squash trellis.

Winter squash to the left of photo, cucumber and a small watermelon on the  right side, unmown grass all around, and husband in the center being silly. 

The two bean towers on the right are loaded, as is the bamboo teepee in front of them.  I went a little bean crazy!

Hubby being goofy under the hops vines. 

     I have to start researching beer recipes. The hops are doing very well this year, and we will have a crop of aromatic and bitter hops. So I will need to make beer soon.  I make wine, so I do not find the idea daunting, merely the taste testing.  I think most beer tastes like muddy swamp water, so I will depend on my husband and neighbors to let me know when I get it right!