What are You Eating from the Garden?

[ducks4you]

Tomatoes in stuffed peppers on Saturday, and dehydrated tomatoes that rehydrated with yesterday's roast.

 

[digitS']

We had overwintered kale overtheweekend and can expect more overtheweeks.

An even dozen 2024 kale plants stayed thru the Winter. They weren't hugging like @Branching Out 's carrots but scattered everywhere from the front yard to the back fence. Working around them for preparing for the 2025 season wasn't much of a problem.

I moved 3 of the 4 in the hoop house out into the yard while rebuilding the path walls. Those will get a break but hardly look like they need a recovery except by comparison to the ones that didn't undergo a move.

Mustard greens and Asian greens seedlings in the hoop house beds will need a little time to recover from transplanting.

 

[flowerbug]

i have two pint jars of garlic pickle from 2013 (sure doesn't seem like it was that long ago when i made it), it's wonderful stuff but a little goes a long ways and i just kinda forgot about it for years.

now i'm going to use it when i'm planting this coming season. it will go in the trenches for the peppers and onions - just a little as some extra fertilizer and trace nutrients. it will keep most things away i'm sure as the main ingredient is garlic... vampires need not apply...

 

[digitS']

overwintered kale

And Again

 

[digitS']

Rhubarb, as in Strawberry Rhubarb pie!

It's a little early and the stems were small and short. But, there were plenty of them and the plant yielding enough for 2 pies hardly looks like anything is missing.

Usually, chives for scrambled eggs are our earliest crop but I moved the chives last year to make room for the above-ground compost bin with all that 2024 grass sod. The chives are just little clumps right now.

Planted the potatoes, today .

 

[Phaedra]

Counting down for this beautiful purple broccoli!

 

[flowerbug]

Rhubarb, as in Strawberry Rhubarb pie!

It's a little early and the stems were small and short. But, there were plenty of them and the plant yielding enough for 2 pies hardly looks like anything is missing.

if they were recently frosted it is not a good time to take rhubarb. the oxalates in the leaves will move down into the stem and it may take a bit for that to reverse.

 

[digitS']

oxalates in the leaves will move down into the stem

Yikes.

Reading a little as a reaction to that. I see that just about my favorite veggies are high in oxalate – baby beets or beet greens.

Outdoors, it is just at freezing at this moment.

 

[Branching Out]

Easter ham with home grown asparagus!

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Rhubarb pie is better than pumpkin .