June in my garden

[Kim_NC]

Lovely garden! I'm curious about the 'Do you do anything special to yours?' question too. I make jam from ours, but would love some other ideas.

Thanks for sharing your pics.

 

[herbsherbsflowers]

My mom always made fig preserves which my husband loved until he became a diabetic. I never liked the preserves that much, but I love eating them fresh off the tree. I've got a couple of recipes for figs grilled with prosciutto and stuffed with blue cheese that I am going to try if these ever get ripe. The best part to me of the fig preserves was the lemon slices that kind of got candied in with the figs. She put those in to keep the sugar from crystalizing or so she said.

 

[Willow's Garden]

Beutiful garden! I love your chickens!!!...barred rock or dominque? How do you have such nice artichokes so eary in the summer? I'm not growing them, I should of!!! I've never grown them. You know every summer I think of alllll the things I want to grow. And in June I always think of one or two things that I SHOULD of grown but I didn't!!!!

 

[herbsherbsflowers]

The chickens are actually Barred Hollands. They do look very similar to Barred Rocks. They lay medium sized white eggs. We have had them a little over two years.

This is my first year to grow artichokes. It is probably just beginner's luck. I ordered the plants from a place in Alabama called The Tasteful Garden. They are kind of expensive, but every plant I have ever gotten from them has been in perfect condition. I planted them back in early April. I was surprised to see the artichoke form so early. I just cut it today and will cook it tomorrow. Two smaller ones have already formed on side shoots. They are supposed to be perennials so I hope they will keep coming back every year. I planted them next to a brick wall that gets sun most of the day. I hope that will keep enough warmth close to them to help them through the winter.

Thanks for taking a look at my blog,

 

[Smiles Jr.]

Your garden looks great! Thanks for sharing with us. Like hoodat said, I like to see other's gardens - it always provides ideas.

Do you think somebody in Indiana could grow Artichokes? I love them and miss our years in southern Louisiana. I suppose I could try to grow them in a wheeled container so I could move them to a warm location in the winter. Do they go dormant in the winter? I obviously do not know much about them.

 

[herbsherbsflowers]

I am concerned that it may not be warm enough for them to overwinter here. They are supposed to die down in the winter and come back in the spring. I don't think they would work in Indiana, but you should give it a try and see. At least maybe you will get one harvest anyway.

I grew up in Louisiana near Alexandria. I still have family in New Orleans and Covington and Baton Rouge and Lafayette. Where did you live?

 

[Smiles Jr.]

<snip> I grew up in Louisiana near Alexandria. I still have family in New Orleans and Covington and Baton Rouge and Lafayette. Where did you live?

My wife and I moved to Slidel (just across the lake from New Orleans) in 1986. In 1990 we moved to the tiny town of Theriot which is south of Houma. Although it was soooooo hot, soooooo humid, soooooo backwoods we loved it anyway. I worked for an engineering company in those days and we specialized in marine equipment design. My wife worked in the tiny engineering office there. I spent one or two days every week out in the gulf or back in the swamps. We made some lifelong friends back in the bayou. We ate animals and vegetables that the average human wouldn't even think of. Yum! Yum! Swam with the gators and the water moccasins, too. I'm sure we ate tons of crawfish, crabs, and seafood while we were there. We left the area in 1999. 13 years of paradise.

 

[obsessed]

Hey smiles I live in Slidell now. I like it I am originally from Souther Cali but don't know what life was like before crawfish!

 

[Smiles Jr.]

Every year I say I'm going to go back in March or April for some good mud bugs but I seldom get there. I've been back to Slidell twice since Katrina and it just will never be the same. What a shame.

 

[herbsherbsflowers]

I go almost every year at the end of April, beginning of May for Jazz Fest. The crawfish are so good and so is everything else. I have to have some strawberries from up around Covington, a muffaletta and go to the French Quarter for beignets. They have some great farmers markets that are coming along in the city. My cousin goes to one that has some great stuff. She and her family stayed with us from September to December after Katrina. She is a great garden helper. We planted lots of daffodils and now every year when they bloom, I remember the times we had together. while they were here.