Borage domination

I was at the UARTS Hybrid book conference this weekend and didn't get down to the garden until Sunday. From Tuesday to Sunday the borage shot up several feet. It goes from being an fuzzy oval leaved plant to a high stalk of cornflower blue flowers, or it should be borage blue a kind of ultramarine cerulean mix. nice as an accent in a salad.

I was a thinking that my garden is a book. There is the spine or border, content, codex pages or groups or waves of plants, content, narrative, texture contrasting juxtapositions, conflict, linear definitions. A flow of plants through the seasons. And I can eat it.

I had my first basil sandwich on Sunday. Cowgirl Creamery Mt Tam cheese, Metropolitan Bakery Organic Spelt bread toasted so it tasted nutty and several basil leaves. Summer is here.

Flowering now: coriander, drifts of coriander tall with abundant small white flowers. Arugula with cream streaky flowers, Tall white umbels of Valerian. Yellow sorrel spikes, White nigella on top of feathery stems. Blue borage. Lettuce is bolting as is early arugula and radicchio. there is so much volunteer borage in the Chris plot that I've been selectively pulling it out to not crowd the Tomatoes and the Egyptian walking onions are doing their curling waving red and green thing.

The lemon grass is growing stronger. I'm not yet sure about the transplanted rosemary. We'll see. In my yard I have a pot of Chervil and a few plants in the front bed of the garden. I've never eaten this before, it's a test. The Vietnamese coriander is holding its own, getting stronger. Tonight I made a salad of leftover grilled onions, chicken, zucchini and eggplant. This was on a bed of lots of garden greens lettuce. mustard greens agrugla and borage dressed with a nam pla, lime ricewine vinegar garlic, grilled garlic ,sugar and onion mix. I added some shaved habaneros from the freezer they are intense. a half is enough.