Whats in it? I got carrotts, about 5 different varieties of peppers to do my own salsa, onions, garlic, cilantro, 2 different cherry tomatoes and a brandywine tomatoes... Strawberries, raspberries and even tried watermelon this year. Even though it didn't turn out last year.
Geez Mick . . . starting thread about cooking and a garden . . . if I ever meet you I don't know if I should offer you a beer or to propose to you.
I am an urban farmer - meaning I grow a significant portion of what I eat. Lucky to have a lot of area although when I moved in it was weeds and garbage (not nice compostable garbage; old booze bottles, used car parts, broken shoes, etc.) I have fruit trees - 2 plum, 2 apple, cherry, 2 orange, lemon, fig, peach, avocado. Strawberries, blueberries. Vegetable garden (salad stuff, carrots, greens, beets, tomatoes, peppers, corn, pumpkins, melon, etc), herbs. Also drought tolerant ornamentals, cactus garden, about 2 dozen roses. Guess how I spend weekends? Weed, water, prune, weed, water, prune, plant, harvest, preserve ... and kill snails.
Corn, tomatoes, zucchini, squash, peppers. The easy things to grow (except corn maybe.) Fruit: This year we are trying cantaloupes. Also blackberries. I also rototilled an area and planted a dozen rose bushes. We already have blooms up the wazoo (insert your joke here.) Surprised, but very satisfying.
Tomatoes, yellow squash, bush beans, carrots, kale, spinach, buttered lettuce, beets, potatoes. Strawberries in the front, and some thorn-less raspberry/blackberries edit: forgot the broccoli!
Without a greenhouse, preferably a dugout style, the occasional freeze and constant bunny/deer pilferage makes it hard here. But we've done some greens and small stuff. The greenhouse is a year or 2 away still, but it will make all the difference. Meanwhile Zags, I suggest you plant an l, to be perfectly clear.
Kale is great with fruit smoothies. You can easily mask kale's mild flavor with bananas, apples, and other fruit.
Dude, the zuppa tuscona from Olive Garden is fucking money, and it has kale in it. I made my own version of it and it was great. The Kale gives it some extra texture.
Stir fry some kale and carrots (maybe throw in some sweet onions) . . . tasty stuff Also as mentioned, great in fruit smoothies (Recently got a vitamix from costco and loving the shakes and smoothies life)
Maris, don't laugh, have you tried fox urine granules? My fruit trees were being decimated by squirrels and raccoons. Traps didn't help because the fruit was tastier than the bait. Then I got fox urine granules, sprinkled a circle around each tree, renew every week or so. Works like a charm - animals won't go where they smell a predator. I wonder what unlucky minimum wage person gets the fabulous job of dehydrating fox urine to make that stuff?
Do they make bear, cougar, or T-Rex urine granules to keep my cats from using my garden box as their littler box?
supposedly acorn shells keep cats away, because they are painful to walk on. But that's an expensive solution.
