Harvesting and planting anew
The pictures I promises will be coming, maybe even a few more of the recent harvest.
Which quickly brings me to the first topic of this entry: harvesting. This overcast morning I went out to the quiet only found on a sunday morning, and began to harvest some of delights of the garden. First came the cilantro en masse so that I might send some home with my houseguest, the rest to be made into a sauce to be added to chili, to salsas, to eggs, or to whatever seems to need the extra bit of earthy kick that cilantro offers. I left some of each plant, cutting only the thickest and tallest stems. I suspect that I will not be able to baby the remaining along much longer because of the summer-like heat that we get early on here, but no harm in trying.
After bringing in the bundle of cilantro stalks, I returned with a bowl to harvest a few peas, thinking that I did not have enough to make much of a meal, rather just a simple snack. I discovered that I was sorely mistaken. After filling a large salad bowl with only the best of these peas, a variety of snow pea so the pods too are edible, I brought them in to be cleaned and either cooked for lunch today, else frozen for future enjoyment.
During this process I snacked on the lone spinach plant that managed to come up between the pea plants, a late bloomer which survived the rains that destroyed the remainder of that planting. All is not lost on the spinach front however as I intend this year to finally be the year that I get ahold of some malabar spinach, which though not a true spinach not only tolerates the heat, but thrives in it.
Yesterday saw the purchase of some heirloom tomato plants which should go into the ground today, as will the lavender, basil, and perhaps even some of the cucumber plants that I raised myself from seed. More on all of this later, appearing with the promised photos.
All the best to my gardening friends, let us all begin to enjoy this time of renewed energy, new growth, and new beginnings.
Which quickly brings me to the first topic of this entry: harvesting. This overcast morning I went out to the quiet only found on a sunday morning, and began to harvest some of delights of the garden. First came the cilantro en masse so that I might send some home with my houseguest, the rest to be made into a sauce to be added to chili, to salsas, to eggs, or to whatever seems to need the extra bit of earthy kick that cilantro offers. I left some of each plant, cutting only the thickest and tallest stems. I suspect that I will not be able to baby the remaining along much longer because of the summer-like heat that we get early on here, but no harm in trying.
After bringing in the bundle of cilantro stalks, I returned with a bowl to harvest a few peas, thinking that I did not have enough to make much of a meal, rather just a simple snack. I discovered that I was sorely mistaken. After filling a large salad bowl with only the best of these peas, a variety of snow pea so the pods too are edible, I brought them in to be cleaned and either cooked for lunch today, else frozen for future enjoyment.
During this process I snacked on the lone spinach plant that managed to come up between the pea plants, a late bloomer which survived the rains that destroyed the remainder of that planting. All is not lost on the spinach front however as I intend this year to finally be the year that I get ahold of some malabar spinach, which though not a true spinach not only tolerates the heat, but thrives in it.
Yesterday saw the purchase of some heirloom tomato plants which should go into the ground today, as will the lavender, basil, and perhaps even some of the cucumber plants that I raised myself from seed. More on all of this later, appearing with the promised photos.
All the best to my gardening friends, let us all begin to enjoy this time of renewed energy, new growth, and new beginnings.
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