Post by steff on Jun 20, 2013 20:41:38 GMT -5
I made my first jar of icebox pickles today. By next week I should have enough pickling cucumbers to make a batch of bread & butter pickles. I'm up to my eyeballs in radishes. Now we know to stagger planting of it so I don't end up with tons all at once. We've put carrots in where the radishes were & have planted 1/3 of a package of new radish seeds.
something about the regrowing lettuce. It does work, but it only regrows once. When you cut it after regrowing it, it won't grow back again. So that's something else to stagger out so you have fresh regrown lettuce in different stages.
We have the first signs of corn showing. I already have tons of sweet & hot Italian peppers on the plants, just waiting for them to turn red. We've been eating snow peas with every meal it seems like. They don't really freeze well, so I'm using them in stir frys & salads. There are probably a dozen itty bitty cantalopes on the vine & I counted 6 watermelons about the size of a marble so far. We're already eating grape tomatoes & the big ones are loading up with green tomatoes right now. There's a ton of squash on the plants, but still too soon to pick. Altho I did make stuffed squash blossoms out of some I picked early.
The purple hull peas & black eye'd peas all have blooms on them, but the okra looks like it's not doing well this year. We'll just replant & try again.
I made a salad the other day that had lettuce from my laundry room, grape tomatoes, snow peas, radishes, & green onions all from the garden. I added red cabbage & carrots from the store, but everything else from the garden. With the homemade copy cat Olive Garden dressing.
something about the regrowing lettuce. It does work, but it only regrows once. When you cut it after regrowing it, it won't grow back again. So that's something else to stagger out so you have fresh regrown lettuce in different stages.
We have the first signs of corn showing. I already have tons of sweet & hot Italian peppers on the plants, just waiting for them to turn red. We've been eating snow peas with every meal it seems like. They don't really freeze well, so I'm using them in stir frys & salads. There are probably a dozen itty bitty cantalopes on the vine & I counted 6 watermelons about the size of a marble so far. We're already eating grape tomatoes & the big ones are loading up with green tomatoes right now. There's a ton of squash on the plants, but still too soon to pick. Altho I did make stuffed squash blossoms out of some I picked early.
The purple hull peas & black eye'd peas all have blooms on them, but the okra looks like it's not doing well this year. We'll just replant & try again.
I made a salad the other day that had lettuce from my laundry room, grape tomatoes, snow peas, radishes, & green onions all from the garden. I added red cabbage & carrots from the store, but everything else from the garden. With the homemade copy cat Olive Garden dressing.