how's Ur fall garden ?
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on 12/6/11 9:20 pm, edited 12/6/11 9:22 pm
on 12/6/11 9:20 pm, edited 12/6/11 9:22 pm
My Brooklyn briownstone backyard :
I'm amazed at the gigantic pots of pureed broccoli stew ( mix with cheese sauce from mac n cheese , fatfree half n half n butter buds .. yummo )
the gorgeous red ripe peppers and delicious fallgold raspberries I'm still picking .... in December .
The jerusalem artichoke tubers are plentiful , gorgeous and amazing sliced as a crunchy swee****erchestnut substitute in oriental stir fries ... and they also can be roasted and also mashed as a low carb substitute for potatoes . Theyre quite good prepared that way actually !
Im making daikon radish salad from the beauty heart oriental radishes I planted in the fall .. which are now about 8-9 inches long . I won't let them stay in the ground past a freeze because they don't survive ...
Red and green cabbages and brussels sprouts are also amazing .... and fall planted kale is just coming into its own .... will be delicious picked in the snow after frost . The kohlrabi is also baseball sized and ready forthe pot . The great thing about this time of year is most produce will stand and stay beautiful crunchy and sweet until I am ready to cook it lol
I'm thinking of harvesting the few ( gigantic ) pumpkins that are still growing ( ! ) .... and replanting a winter hardy heirloom lettuce and yet more small radishes .... Rouge d" Hiver comes to mind and of course the super -hardy ( and super cheap as its an open pollinated heirloom ) black seeded simpson .... Ill also probably plant a deer tongue and maybe a freckles Romaine . I found Freckles to be VERY hardy also ... as well as beautifully colored and tasty .
I still have a few tomatoes lingering around .... have been making delicious pico de gallo ( choped salad like salsa .. tomatoes , onions or scallions , cilantro basically ) I just make sure I bite them all before I include em cuz some don't taste that good . Now i'm wishing I'd planted winter keeper .... which is an amazing heirloom whose tomatoes can be put on a windowsill and ripened into february ...
How are Ur gardens doing ? I LOVE occupying the time I USED to spend baking and overeating with gardening ...producing incredibly healthy and beautiful produce inexpensively for my and my family's table ..
I'm amazed at the gigantic pots of pureed broccoli stew ( mix with cheese sauce from mac n cheese , fatfree half n half n butter buds .. yummo )
the gorgeous red ripe peppers and delicious fallgold raspberries I'm still picking .... in December .
The jerusalem artichoke tubers are plentiful , gorgeous and amazing sliced as a crunchy swee****erchestnut substitute in oriental stir fries ... and they also can be roasted and also mashed as a low carb substitute for potatoes . Theyre quite good prepared that way actually !
Im making daikon radish salad from the beauty heart oriental radishes I planted in the fall .. which are now about 8-9 inches long . I won't let them stay in the ground past a freeze because they don't survive ...
Red and green cabbages and brussels sprouts are also amazing .... and fall planted kale is just coming into its own .... will be delicious picked in the snow after frost . The kohlrabi is also baseball sized and ready forthe pot . The great thing about this time of year is most produce will stand and stay beautiful crunchy and sweet until I am ready to cook it lol
I'm thinking of harvesting the few ( gigantic ) pumpkins that are still growing ( ! ) .... and replanting a winter hardy heirloom lettuce and yet more small radishes .... Rouge d" Hiver comes to mind and of course the super -hardy ( and super cheap as its an open pollinated heirloom ) black seeded simpson .... Ill also probably plant a deer tongue and maybe a freckles Romaine . I found Freckles to be VERY hardy also ... as well as beautifully colored and tasty .
I still have a few tomatoes lingering around .... have been making delicious pico de gallo ( choped salad like salsa .. tomatoes , onions or scallions , cilantro basically ) I just make sure I bite them all before I include em cuz some don't taste that good . Now i'm wishing I'd planted winter keeper .... which is an amazing heirloom whose tomatoes can be put on a windowsill and ripened into february ...
How are Ur gardens doing ? I LOVE occupying the time I USED to spend baking and overeating with gardening ...producing incredibly healthy and beautiful produce inexpensively for my and my family's table ..
I still have brocalli, kale, collards, swiss chard and parsley. Of course those are all the things I can't eat a lot of while on the coumadin but that is just another week. The rest of the raised beds have been covered with compost and will be covered with black plastic for the winter, to bake out all the weed seeds.
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on 12/6/11 10:25 pm
on 12/6/11 10:25 pm
Thats cool !! I didnt know that worked to take out the weeds ....
does it work for perennial deep rooted weeds as well ? In the new house the flowerbeds are LITERALLY choked with that horrible invasive alien , English Ivy ... and ANOTHER horrible deep rooted lacy semi- gray leafed weed that spreads in mulched flowerbeds with round , deep hard to get out completely roots . And it will completely infest them if left unchecked ...
The only solution I can think of is a thorough weed whacking .. then 10 layers of newspaper followed by landscape fabric and then deep mulch ... left to decompose for at least a year ...
the wordst part of this is that the gravel and bluestone paths have this second weed in em too ..what the heck do I do THERE ?!! hate to totally ruin the looks of the place ...
I was thinking of buying a backpack propane weeder... have U ever used one ofthose ? I really dont believe in using round up or its ilk ...
does it work for perennial deep rooted weeds as well ? In the new house the flowerbeds are LITERALLY choked with that horrible invasive alien , English Ivy ... and ANOTHER horrible deep rooted lacy semi- gray leafed weed that spreads in mulched flowerbeds with round , deep hard to get out completely roots . And it will completely infest them if left unchecked ...
The only solution I can think of is a thorough weed whacking .. then 10 layers of newspaper followed by landscape fabric and then deep mulch ... left to decompose for at least a year ...
the wordst part of this is that the gravel and bluestone paths have this second weed in em too ..what the heck do I do THERE ?!! hate to totally ruin the looks of the place ...
I was thinking of buying a backpack propane weeder... have U ever used one ofthose ? I really dont believe in using round up or its ilk ...
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