What are You Eating from the Garden?
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Beekissed
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Makin' me hungry, Miss Mary! All looks quite delish!
ninnymary
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Oh Miss Bee, you should have tasted the chicken. My son roasted the garlic, jalapeños, and tomatoes so it was in a sauce. So delicious!
Mary
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digitS'
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And here I thought that it was worthwhile to report that we had the first green beans, and ..
. both the 2nd and 3rd cucumbers of 2018.
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AMKuska
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I got my first reward from the garden yesterday. I made coleslaw with a big napa cabbage. 
So tasty!
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digitS'
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I gotta think about a Napa Cabbage coleslaw ...
I suppose that is all I will be able to do. Napa cabbage is difficult for me to grow. I can give it a good start under plastic film but have to leave the hoops and plastic on until waaay after everything else should be out in the open. If I pull the plastic off too soon, the Chinese cabbage just explodes ..!
I think it's mostly an arid conditions combined with direct sunlight thing. You have the humidity and more moderate temperatures @AMKuska , that cease to exist here, usually sometime in late June.
I have been harvesting Savoy cabbage ... small this year ... see immoderate conditions reference, ↑ above.
Steve
I suppose that is all I will be able to do. Napa cabbage is difficult for me to grow. I can give it a good start under plastic film but have to leave the hoops and plastic on until waaay after everything else should be out in the open. If I pull the plastic off too soon, the Chinese cabbage just explodes ..!
I think it's mostly an arid conditions combined with direct sunlight thing. You have the humidity and more moderate temperatures @AMKuska , that cease to exist here, usually sometime in late June.
I have been harvesting Savoy cabbage ... small this year ... see immoderate conditions reference, ↑ above.
Steve
AMKuska
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We are certainly a lot more moist here. The napa cabbage is doing great, they are enormous and filled with vitality. My drago f1s are small in this miserable heat though. That and the deer pillaged my garden recently.
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Eat the deer
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digitS'
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A flavorful beefsteak tomato ...
It wasn't beautiful. A bit deformed. Right now, I don't know what variety or, really, how it got there (couldn't see the plant label. No other beefsteaks have ripened. I think it was a Brandywine OTV and I missed pruning off a blossom at planting.
It was just 2 years ago that I began making soup early in the season instead of using the soup making as a way to handle only those tomatoes that came in to ripen after fall frost.
That's not a bad technique but I like MY soup
. Just because I was impatient, I tried vine-ripened one year ... even better than the fall tomato soup!
I had to add a handful of cherry tomatoes today but BOY was it good!
Steve
It wasn't beautiful. A bit deformed. Right now, I don't know what variety or, really, how it got there (couldn't see the plant label. No other beefsteaks have ripened. I think it was a Brandywine OTV and I missed pruning off a blossom at planting.It was just 2 years ago that I began making soup early in the season instead of using the soup making as a way to handle only those tomatoes that came in to ripen after fall frost.
That's not a bad technique but I like MY soup
. Just because I was impatient, I tried vine-ripened one year ... even better than the fall tomato soup!I had to add a handful of cherry tomatoes today but BOY was it good!
Steve
