She is the herb lady, right?
DATE CHANGED for the College Station RU-Sat, April 12th
Cool Linda!! I will finally get to meet you!! Yaay!
Yes, she's the herb lady, Josephine! And it'll be so cool to meet you for real, Deb...we've known each other on DG for so long!
I will have to come up with something special for Sheila! She is wonderful.
Bob
So pleased to hear that Sheila will be coming too, Linda!
Sheila is so sweet.. She gave my big bunny a black-eyed- Susan plant last year. Joy was SO thrilled!! :-)
Kim, I feel your pain as far as the dog problems go. My dog loves digging up new plants/trees and destroying them. I think he's starting to realize I don't like it.
Bob, if you have any more of those that you brought last year, that would be great. Really any kind you have at all would be great, but I really like that color combination. And some magenta spreen too please.:) I didn't know you are supposed to plant that in the sun. I had it in the shade. Would part shade work OK? Thanks Bob.
Partial shade should be fine, full sun fine too. I will have lots of magenta spreen, and I have a nice range of iris, It may be past the bloom time for a lot of them, but I can still select a lot of nice ones!
Bob
Thanks Bob.:) BTW can I bring anything for you?
Bob, would you like to post on the trades thread? If so, it is here:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/804075/
You might get a lot of takers over there...
I am always in the market for the edible plants that you have to fight back. No mint is invasive enough for me.
Bob
Bob, I just pulled a ton of chickweed, only to find that it is edible. Do you eat it? I hear it tastes like grass.
I have eaten a plant that was called chickweed, but it does not resemble the plant that I commonly see called chickweed. Since swiss chard, pak choy and lettuce do so well here during the winter, I have not explored the native cool weather greens as far as I would like to.
By the way, ages ago, I decided to try a huge range of lettuce. My thought was to pick just one to keep as a breed. Asian, American, English, French, Italian, I labeled them all. I really could not decide. I love lettuce, just about all lettuce. I kind of love the plants, so I let them all go to seed.
Later, a bunch of romain came up as volunteers. The leaf was as gentle as a butter crunch, the stem as crisp as iceberg. It had just that perfect touch of sweet at the start of the taste, and that perfect touch of bitter at the end. You can remove the mature leaves and in a weeks time it regrows for you to pick again. It tends not to bolt until late May or early June and makes a great sandwich leaf. You can plant it close and then spread it, It likes to be transplanted. It does well left alone, but transplanted it does even better. It does require a warmer day to germinate than most lettuce, (75 degrees) but it takes our winter here without notice. The mature leaves, coated with ice are particularly delightful to snack on. So delicious and cold.
I have grown at least 100 plants each generation, culled the least favorable ones. and collected seeds. I bias my collection towards the volunteers each year in hopes of ending up with an entirely self perpetuating variety. I keep as wide a range of the seeds as I can, so that the line remains strong. If I had had this variety in my original trials, I would have chosen it.
I have to thin it sadly, I have so much growing shoulder to shoulder when it really needs to have about 5" between each plant. Does anyone by chance want some seeds or starts?
Bob
I would love to try your lettuce, sounds perfect!
:) Kim
Oh boy, oh boy - do we ever, Bob.
Thank you for offering.
Me too! What a testimony!! And thank you.
Lettuce seeds, please, please, please. And Thank you!lol
Bob, you sound like a lettuce connoisseur....you've got me wanting that lettuce. Could I have some? Please.
That golden moment, that glorious time, when Lettuce, Tomatoes, Radishes and Onions are all growing at the same time, fresh to pick, that is the time when I must dance like an child. That is when the gates of joy have opened, when the earth transforms into salad heaven. Yes I love my salad. What other people think is a family sized salad, I consider a single serving. When a great salad is offered, I need no meat and no cheese. Although a nice hunk of bread to dip in the remaining salad dressing, (basalmic vinegar, red wine vinegar, orange juice, olive or camellia oil) is never amiss.
My wife is the true connoisseur of lettuce, she would happily forgo the salad and simply munch the stuff as she picks it.
Bob
This message was edited Feb 29, 2008 1:52 PM
We might just sit at your feet and drool like puppies until you share a leaf or two from that humongous salad bowl. lol
You do have a gift for words Bob!LOL
Bob, you are such a poet!
Bob, do you write for a gardening magazine or something? You would be very good at it.
If nothing else you need to write some articles for DG!!
Hey all....please post here for the final headcount and to sign up for food: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/823898/ / Thanks!