Does a Bok bring you Choy?

[digitS']

You know, I really don't like coleslaw. Except at this one fish & chips place. And, I don't care much about their fish & chips .

Their hamburgers aren't so great either. They don't make Reuben sandwiches . . . which is just as well because Reuben sandwiches give me heartburn :/.

Oh, a corned beef & cabbage dinner is okay - lots of tators on the side.

No, I'm not just trying to be an aji-tator . I think I've got the garden cabbage patch fairly well covered without growing cabbage this year. I grow bok choy!

And, not that big clubby bok choy that you usually find in the soopermarket . I grow the cute little bok choy . . . and, other Asian greens. Leafy greens! I can grow leaves fairly well. Leaves come first ! Yeah, it is everything that comes later that I have trouble with . . .

Truth be known, cabbage leaves often have the most difficult time in my garden. I can deal with the cabbage worms with Bt spray but the aphids . . . ? Can't reach 'em with any spray and it would take a hundred LadyBugs on each of those big, ol' cabbage plants to make a difference, some years.

Anyway, I'm thinking of NOT growing cabbage this year. It will be the first time in at least 25 years that I haven't had cabbage growing somewhere.

Is there something that you are thinking of NOT growing this year? May the LadyBug be with you.

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

Asian greens are something I have not had in my garden for many, many years. I grew them back in the day when I tried everything
that caught my fancy. But that was a different climate and in a galaxy far, far away.
But I think I need to give them a place now. Especially when I read you and Hoody being so enthusiastic about them.

I hear you about the cabbage ( I happen to love coleslaw ), but I didn't have so many aphids as slugs. I admit to slacking on the garden maintenance once work got so hectic, but those filthy slugs surprised me. Don't tell anybody, but even after I had cleaned the heads and was "slawing" them I caught a slug or so about to go into the finished product. Who knows how many we ate unknowingly!

Now that I have grossed you out I'll deal with the subject of your thread Steve: probably radishes.
Not a dramatic change in the garden overall, but I'm not crazy about them anyway and the darn things never bulbed up for me last year.
And I'm not sure yet, but I may skip the melons. I sure wanted the Blacktail Mountain to do well last year, and they just didn't.
Of course none of the melons did jack last year, so I may try again...



Sure am glad my aphids aren't that strong...

 

[curly_kate]

I'm skipping radishes, too. I like how quick they come up, and how early, but neither DH nor I really eat them.

 

[vfem]

I need both!!!

Its an obsession with either.... Just like fennel... I keep a perennial garden of fennel. But I hate fennel? Well, I hate the bulb the fennel grows on (the celery looking stringy tough rib part! YUCK). I adore the prongs (sp?) on the top when they're fresh light and green. FAB in potato salad. I even let it go to seed so I can collect the seeds to dry and grind up in my coffee grinder for when I make homemade chicken sauce. ROCKS!

But I have learned one secret of cole slaw... everyone else who's cole slaw I tried sucks... I can only ever stand mine.

Lesson: "No one can do it better then you, big guy!"