Nasturtium - edible and pretty
Oregano - tasty and bees love the flowers
Thyme - ditto
Japanese Spirea - Flowering shrub that attracts bees like mad and the ducks wont eat it so there is actually foliage in their pen :D
Dandelions - edible. If you don't like the taste, feed it to your critters...
I feel for you girl. My garden took a pounding a few weeks back. The plants made it despite a lot of shredded leaves. The ducks never even bothered to go in their house. Morons.
If you stir it up is it spreadable? I generally don't worry about jam being too firm. I HATE runny jam and would rather have the hard candy version. :D
Heirloom yellow pear tomatoes :drool
They are a bit on the sweet side, but not overly so. Very productive. I have 2 plants and they are just now ripening. VERY tasty!
Last year I ordered black cherry tomatoes. I ended up with black plum seeds in the black cherry packet. I thought my tomatoes had some weird disease when they came out all funny shaped! :D
Thanks for the tips Steve. Since you are fighting a lot of the same weird weather I am, it does cheer me up a bit knowing you have gotten fall pea crops.
I am taking all of the pea seeds I still have in my stash and planting those. If I don't get a fall crop, I am giving up on peas all together. The weather here is so weird, spring planting peas has been a disaster and they don't stand a chance in summer. I am also going to grow some little round...
Even if you are not a mushroom fan, when it is blended with other ingredients, it builds flavor. I would try halving the mushrooms but still using them, and maybe replacing some of that water with chicken stock or red wine.
You have purslane! It grows like mad here. I eat it and I feed it to the ducks too. I just had some quiche I made with purslane, lamb's quarter's leaves, mushrooms, sweet potato leaves and onion with pepper jack cheese. Mmmmmmmmmmm!
The plant it looks like is spurge. But spurge does not have...