What Did You Cook and Eat From Your Garden Today?

[baymule]

I picked the first calico peas and a few pink eye purple Hull peas from the garden. I cooked them last night and have leftovers! At least the peas are making, cause not much else is.

 

[so lucky]

Speaking of garden weeds, does anyone eat plantain? There is more of it growing in my garden than any thing I planted. Plantain soup? Plantain smoothie? Chicken-fried plantain?

 

[Just-Moxie]

Cook and eat?....Nah...we had BLT's

 

[digitS']

Speaking of garden weeds, does anyone eat plantain? There is more of it growing in my garden than any thing I planted. Plantain soup? Plantain smoothie? Chicken-fried plantain?

I was just noticing how well the Broad Leaf Plantain is doing in my weedy driveway.

I have eaten plantain and found it tough ... Maybe no more tough than Scotch kale but even Broad Leaf plantain has tiny leaves.

Steve

 

[digitS']

Kimchi Ramen & Escarole.

How's that for East meets West?

Good match ... maybe better than a brassica with ramen noodles . Maybe.

Steve

 

[baymule]

Chicken fried plantain?? If it's fried, we'll eat it down south. LOL

 

[journey11]

Plantain is supposed to be a good edible, but I find it too astringent. I do use it on bee stings though.

 

[digitS']

Purslane? The stuff that I pull up?

@journey11 was asking about weather effects. Here's one I haven't noticed.

Purslane really likes my gardens. I ran the rototiller through a lot of it about a week ago. There have been 2 days with temperatures above 100° since. Today I was out there pulling it yet again, in mid-90's heat.

I'm not surprised. One time, I laid a purslane plant upside down on a concrete block at the edge of my garden. After 3 weeks during the hottest part of the summer, it had righted itself and was blooming!

It was no surprise to find a plant completely recovered from its "transplanting shock" lying in the sun with absolutely no soil on it's roots. I was taken a little aback however, when I pulled a piece of a purslane stem from under a corn leaf that had mercifully grown over it during the week. It was perfectly fine and healthy. I don't know if it intended to grow any roots or needed to. Or, if it would just go ahead, bloom, and set seeds lying there half under a corn leaf.

Pulling it and carrying it out of the garden or completely burying purslane - the only ways to be rid of that plant!

Steve

 

[Carol Dee]

Peas

 

[catjac1975]