What are You Eating from the Garden?

[Rhodie Ranch]

Rainbow chard is producing again, as is my Kale. The kale has been eaten by a flock of quail but there is lots of it now.

 

[Marie2020]

I ate nothing but junk today, I'm not up to par to be honest with you. Yesterday a woman passed me by at the church and her deodorant and cigarette made me uncontrollably cough, at the same time some sort of fly decided to get into my rather large nose and I couldn't get is out until I used my salt and vinegar nose wash.

My junk food consisted of tin mushroom soup and another kitkat. The heinz tin looked disgusting but I felt weak and was hungry so it had to do.

I really must get down to putting food into jars for times like today, just like you clever people in here.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I bought a garlic roaster and it came today. You soak it in water for 15 minutes and then put your garlic in with the top cut off and put some olive oil over the garlic and cook about 35 minutes or until tender. I have it in the oven now for a snack.

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

I had to pull all the plants from the greenhouse because of aphid infestation. Does anyone know of a cover crop that I can plant that might help control the aphids? I dont mind washing off a few aphids from each leaf but I just cant deal with the whole underside of leaf covered in those little buggers.

 

[Dahlia]

Today I picked some new stinging nettle shoots and put them in a fettuccine clam noodle stir fry! Yum!

 

[Artichoke Lover]

Today I picked some spinach and put it in my eggs and I’ll put the first pick of lettuce from the garden on my chicken salad sandwich for lunch.

 

[flowerbug]

I had to pull all the plants from the greenhouse because of aphid infestation. Does anyone know of a cover crop that I can plant that might help control the aphids? I dont mind washing off a few aphids from each leaf but I just cant deal with the whole underside of leaf covered in those little buggers.

no cover crop that i know of will get rid of aphids, but the normal predators can greatly help reduce their numbers. what i do here is keep an area called an insect refuge every so often so that all gardens have a bit of space next to them where the beneficial insects can survive when the rest of the gardens are rather bare. as of yet this has worked well in that i rarely see more than a few aphids on any of the garden plants.

inside a greenhouse this would be perhaps a few larger strategically placed perennial plants with some chunks of bark mulch to give the good bugs places to hide.

 

[digitS']

@Dahlia , I have eaten wild stinging nettle and bought a package of nettle tea in the past. Both had the same reaction from me, "Wait a Minute. This tastes like spinach!" (Won't be buying it as tea, again .)

My first vegetable from the garden will likely be chives for scrambled eggs, as usual. I can see from a short distance that some saved chard plants have survived our mild winter. Maaybeee, they will grow some useable leaves. Intend to try overwintering spinach every year, @Artichoke Lover . Always forget to sow seeds.

Once again, collards are living through the winter with some Scotch and Italian kale (some Italian kale plants have died). I guess that I should count them as "first" but we could've been eating on the Scotch kale "thru" the winter ...

DW brought some collard leaves from the backyard beds in, yesterday. Today, she says that she is enthusiastic to cook them.

Steve

 

[Dahlia]

Today I picked some Siberian Miners Lettuce and stonecrop and added it to my salad! Very fresh and tasty!

 

[Artichoke Lover]

Picked some of the overwintered lettuce and spinach for lunch. The lettuce went on my sandwich and the spinach was sautéed with garlic and butter.