Bounty from my garden

Against all odds we managed to have our first meal from my square foot garden.  In spite of the army of green worms, the colourful 'Jiminy Crickets' and the vervet monkeys, I was able to harvest a handful of baby sweet corn, egg plant, peppadews, spring onions, garlic chive, baby tomatoes, basil and wild rocket.
We had boiled sweet corn on the cobb, a rataouille of egg plant, onion, peppers, chives and tomatoes and a green salad with a few lettuce leaves, bite sized tomatoes, shredded red cabbage leaves, basil and rocket.

I have also been able to pickle and bottle three lots of peppadews.  There's definitely some genetic satisfaction in growing and harvesting your own food, even in such small quantities.  We savoured every mouthfull having nutured, protected, rescued, harvested and prepared these little miracles from a 1.5m X 1.5m garden. 
The cucmbers are growing fatter and longer, the gemsquash have shot up the makeshift trellis like Jack-and-the-beanstalks and the green peppers have little green lantern bells on them. 

I made three little jars of basil and rocket pesto using two cups of basil and wild rocket, a handful of garlic chives, a cup of chopped walnuts, olive oil and some grated parmesan cheese.  On Friday night we had gnocchi and pesto with a salad from the garden - Yum!  And I was able to give Tammy and Patty each a jar of home made pesto.