Saturday, March 29, 2008

Good Eatin

The time of year has come again when we can eat out of the garden almost daily. Today I had asparagus and radishes. I harvested onions yesterday and will be making a fennel and onion salad to marinate in the fridge over night. The Swiss chard is huge and we need to start harvesting it again. I still have a little cabbage left for slaw and maybe cabbage rolls. I am not sure if the monkeys will eat cabbage rolls. I have mustard and spinach that are ready to eat. The snow peas are still little, but with a bit more warm weather, they will take off. the lettuce is tiny, but needs to be thinned. We will make salads out of the thinned out tiny plants.

We grow cool weather vegetables all winter and rotate out to warm season plants around the first of May. In about four weeks the tomatoes, peppers, squash, corn, okra, beans, and cucumbers will go in. In the meantime the onions and garlic will all be pulled, cleaned, and let to dry out before I store them. I still need to start basil.

Fennel and onion salad.
Two medium sized onions sliced in thin rings
1/2 cup chopped fresh fennel
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup lemon or lime juice
Salt and pepper to taste
Mix all ingredients together, store in a covered container and marinate overnight in the refrigerator. Serve cold.
We have to eat the fennel now before the black swallowtail butterflies show up. Their babies eat our fennel and dill. I will post pictures when they show up.

8 comments:

  1. Wow, Debbie, what abundance.~~Dee

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  2. Hi Dee, It just gets better from here to next November.

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  3. Yuuuuummmmmm!!! My alliums are just starting to show themselves. But I can dream, can't I?!

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  4. Debbie .. remember when I asked "what can you grow there ?" .. HUGE WOW ! .. You have a wonderful eating garden girl !
    And that recipe sounds fantastic.
    Now I know what you are doing over there with your head in the veggie garden ! .. haha
    Joy

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  5. Hi Joy, sorry I didn't answer your question. Sometimes I get confused. Okay, the truth, I am mostly confused and distracted.

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  6. Debbie .. don't worry .. it was rather rhetorical (spelling isn't right) .. I meant to say .. so many plants I grow in what I think is bad humidity and heat .. you don't even get the chance to grow because you have it longer than we do .. the weather I mean .. and hey .. welcome to my world formally known as CHAOS ! LOL
    Joy

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  7. Yep choas with flying monkeys pretty much discribes my world.

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