fall GARDENing: mom and dad’s backyard
So one of my dreams is to become a farmer, growing food to feed others and myself. That has been my dream for a while, which might be because I grew up eating homegrown food when I lived with my grandparents for a couple of years during my childhood; they were farmers.
Last week I went to visit my parents’ house and took some pictures of their backyard garden. The peppers that they grow are really yummy and spicy… and my mom makes pickles with the cucumbers, and they taste awesome. Cucumbers are out of season now though.
peppers~
this is squash…
cucumber plants…
Flowers from bitter greens… We usually eat these with with lettuce wrap. It taste minty and bitter. They are in season during summer usually. I don’t know the name of these greens in English and never saw them in American markets. But you can find them in Korean markets during the summer.
These are sesame plants. They are seeding now, but during the summer before it flowers and seeds, you eat the leaves. You can eat it as a wrap or make it into salad (bahn chahn) with soy sauce and other ingredients. But in the fall when it grows seeds you can cut the plants and dry them in the sun, and take out the seeds by hitting them lightly and you get sesame seeds.
it’s squash~!!!
