Hungrily stalking the freshly weeded paths. Or my husband. Hmmm...
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
"Wild Garlic"
It's everywhere, of course, as usual. We (some or all of my 5 younger siblings and I) used to make little burritos when we were kids - violet leaves, "hearts" (yellow woodsorrel), mulberries, and wild garlic. And then we grew up, and grew out of it.
But it is still edible, and it is still everywhere. And, in fact, there are recipes for it. Thinking of trying this early next week. We do most of our grocery shopping at a local butcher shop and a local farm market. Once every few weeks, we buy 10 lbs of chicken breast and freeze it in packs of two, then we thaw one out at the beginning of most weeks when whatever we've bought fresh the week before starts running out. So now I have just the recipe for next week's chicken! It helps that we also have farm fresh butter to use. :)
But it is still edible, and it is still everywhere. And, in fact, there are recipes for it. Thinking of trying this early next week. We do most of our grocery shopping at a local butcher shop and a local farm market. Once every few weeks, we buy 10 lbs of chicken breast and freeze it in packs of two, then we thaw one out at the beginning of most weeks when whatever we've bought fresh the week before starts running out. So now I have just the recipe for next week's chicken! It helps that we also have farm fresh butter to use. :)
Wheeeeee
And just like that, a month was gone. And I've been neglecting this site again.
Soooo... let's see...
I started hardening off most of the seedlings.
The giant pumpkins and nuclearly hot peppers have been transplanted into larger pots.
We cleaned out the ponds. Like REALLY cleaned out. We drained them, put the water and 6" worth of muck from the bottom straight onto our drought deprived plants, and then refilled them with fresh water. The frogs were still there, but the fish didn't survive the winter for the first time, maybe because it was so unusually mild. We put 40 feeder goldfish in and two of the ones with the big weird heads and the pretty fan tails.
The patio is short approximately 170 bricks, but otherwise finished.
The pond area is all weeded and mulched, all except about a foot right around the bare edges of the pond, because we're going to add some plants there and there's no point in mulching it so we can clear it back away next week when we get plants.
Umm... I forget what else, but that's the big stuff.
Soooo... let's see...
I started hardening off most of the seedlings.
The giant pumpkins and nuclearly hot peppers have been transplanted into larger pots.
We cleaned out the ponds. Like REALLY cleaned out. We drained them, put the water and 6" worth of muck from the bottom straight onto our drought deprived plants, and then refilled them with fresh water. The frogs were still there, but the fish didn't survive the winter for the first time, maybe because it was so unusually mild. We put 40 feeder goldfish in and two of the ones with the big weird heads and the pretty fan tails.
The patio is short approximately 170 bricks, but otherwise finished.
The pond area is all weeded and mulched, all except about a foot right around the bare edges of the pond, because we're going to add some plants there and there's no point in mulching it so we can clear it back away next week when we get plants.
Umm... I forget what else, but that's the big stuff.
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