The PCB's and Indian Point 'residue' give it a very unique taste.
Edibles - '09 - Part 2
and the drool increases Willie
:)
I like the nice afterglow that comes with years of using Hudson salt. :)
Yuck----never thought of where my salt comes from----I use both Kosher & sea salt----you don't need as much, as Louise has said. And it's great for pickling----all my pickling cukes are up----if the sun ever shines again, I'm thinking pickles.
Nice tongue twister
yum pickles
i planted about a dozen different types of sunflowers indoors to give them a fighting chance against the tree rats - and i have 4 or 5 coming up in the yard that never germinated last year.
hoping they start soon so i can turn off the lights and save on the electric bill:)
LOL!
Sherrie, you are too ambitious! I planted 18 tomatoes, but I do have 4 hills, & 2 rows of pickling cukes---the ones in the rows I will train on trellises----tried that last year----the quality was better, picking was easier, but the quantity was less.
Several varieties of tomato
Zucchini
my potatoes are poking up!!!!
Planted some nasturtiums in the veggie garden---I always like to mix them---then the cosmos go wild, & I'm yanking them out!
here is a pic of the garden this year
Nice space, Bill!
I'm glad I still have not gotten to my veggies, with these cool temps.
yes, cool out there tonight
Very neat veggie garden, Bill---nicely organized----mine's a bit looser! Supposed to rain for the next 3 days---that's not going to help the heat lovers---me included!
thx - i use a tape messure:)
don't tell sherrie
Bill is a type AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
A while back I promised some pictures of the garden, after mentioning I was going to create some raised beds using cement blocks that were left here on the property. Well, here is the "Before" picture of the garden, taken April 12. The wild tangle at the end is an established and overgrown raspberry patch. The lumps in the garden were sheep bedding/manure that I piled on last fall.
And here is the "After", taken today. The near raised bed has broccoli and cabbage, and swiss chard in the middle (just planted, not up yet). The far raised bed has eggplant and peppers.
The peas are the long green row near the back. Behind them, in front of the raspberries are strawberries. Barely visible behind the raised beds are a row of tomatoes. The tall poles are fastened to a section of hog panel for extra support (itself fastened to t-posts driven into the ground) and will be for pole beans, planted last week. In between the pole beans and the end of that row is bush beans (not up yet) and between that row and the tomatoes is a half row of two kinds of beets and a half row of another type of bush bean (also not up yet).
It's all rather hard to see at this point except for the peas, broccoli, and cabbage.
I want to expand the garden into the foreground a bit. You might be able to make out two little bare-looking patches of ground there - those are where I planted two grapevines. I want to bring the garden out and around them.
And here's an iris that popped out within the last couple days. It was already here, so I don't know what cultivar it is.
What I am eating now (herbage):
Oregano
Mint
Parsley
Chervil
Chives
French Taragon
Thyme
Lovage
What I'm going to eat any second
Buttercrunch lettuce
Bacole
What is/was flowerific for future eating:
Tomatos (6 kinds)
Red runner beans
Nanking cherry
What I'm a total loser at and will starve on:
Peas (I have a grand total of 1 pea plant. I think it got too warm too fast)
Artichokes (crappola I overwatered them in my excitement and they shrank in the wash)
Spinach (I have grand total of 2 plants and have decided spinach hates me)
What I killed so far:
Asparagus (ARGH! I think it came up and got froze. Maybe it will come back?)
Everone looks like they're going to have a good harvest this year for sure!!!!
d-nut you crack me up!
dnut hope those articokes come back - i have two in pots by the veggy garden
Wha not completely dead, but almost mostly dead sigh. Oh well I will definitely try again next year if they bite the dust.
We had a handful of peas tonight. Have been enjoying redleaf lettuce and some romaine, but I think I have it in a spot that is too sunny. Next year will be better.
"only mostly dead" .... I love the movie 'The Princess Bride' if that was what you were quoting. If not, then, I still love TPB.
Great-looking gardens, Bill and Galles! I love to look at Type A's gardens!!
Dahlia - you always make me laugh!! I have the same luck you have with spinach. My asparagus is rather lame.....doesn't get enough sun. While I was away enjoying a root canal today, DH dug 2 more long trenches for more asparagus in the same "too shady" part of the garden. I didn't have the heart to point that out. I'll wait until I'm mad at him for something and then I'll point it out. LOL
Horrible news to report.......I thought we might be making some headway on those blasted gallant soldiers in our veggie garden....BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! This morning there are suddenly at least 5 billion germinated all over the garden. That's IT!!! I'm not ruining my back again for the 3rd summer in a row! They have won. My spirit is crushed and my biggest garden crop will be Soldier Flowers! I'll bring some to Kathy's RU for trade. LOL
Veggie garden. Lettece, cukes, tomatoes, sage in flower and peppers.
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so sorry that happened Louise... Randy and I spent a few hours pulling pachysandra that keeps creeping into my beds.. nothing like you have but still a big pain... he put a big rock where the easy spot is to hopefully slow it down from coming in from my neighbors... i know that stuff grows under the rocks but hopefully this will help some
your tomatoes look great Jumper
wha - how do you grow artichokes...I'm reading that they are a perennial and rarely produce buds the first year. Do you bring the pots in?
I kept reading and found this http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/05/nyregion/cuttings-artichokes-spread-to-easterners-back-yards.html?pagewanted=all&pagewanted=print . Is this what you do?
I lost my artichokes this winter in the GH. My fault. I planted a couple of cardoons in a flower bed this year. I will have to see what to do with them if they make it.
Donniebrook, I had to look up gallant soldier in the PF and I now will be on the look out for it now as a noxious weed. I see they use it in soups in SA. Sounds like you could make a lot of soup.
I think we had a rabbit that must have gotten into the deer fenced part of the yard and then it found my lettuce in the veggie bed. I may put up a small fence around just the part of the veggie bed that has the greens in it. Dang. Not all gone, but enough to make me mad.
It is pouring rain now, so I will wait to fix the situation until later, but no telling what it got last night. I found the damage yesterday morning, but I had too much else to do to get the fence up yesterday. I only have a lot of bags of glads to plant to feel really done except the weeding, watering and deadheading for the summer AND doing battle with the rabbits and deer. I hope I will have lots to harvest and put up.
The weather has been cool and nothing seems too happy, but nothing has died. I think my pole beans have spouted.
Last night I took out some frozen soup that I had made last winter with a stock made from roasted veggies from last summer's garden with white beans and lamb shanks. Tasting it made me realize how much I love having the garden despite the weeds, bugs and rabbits. Patti
Hey Allison, I'll take some of that pachysandra you're digging out.
Louise - I have been trying to grow them since last year. My BIL who lives out by you grew some a few years ago so i decided to give it a try. Did not realize they were perennial - he claimed the gave fruit the first year - his wife corrected him last year.
Anyway the one's i grew last year i moved out of the garden at the end of the season - they did not return. So i am trying again and will bring the pots in the garage or shed.
I gave some extras to a friend last year and 3 of 4 returned - his are planted in the ground.