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Radical Centrist
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![]() The beans and peas really like the wet weather and have gone into serious production mode. ![]() Cauliflower and zucchini ![]() Carrots are ready to be thinned out. ![]() At this point they have a light orange hue, and if you break them in half they smell like carrots. Which is what they are. |
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Romanes Eunt Domus
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Boy, are you gonna have to do some serious zuchinni training. Those suckers will trail a long way.
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lobber of scimitars
Join Date: Jul 2001
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You better start lining up your adoptive zucchini parents now, UT ... you will reach a point where everyone you know has zucchini from your garden, or has been gifted with a variety of zucchini products from your kitchen.
It's not just about you. Everyone plants too many zukes. I don't know why it works that way. It may have something to do with the hotdog/bun conspiracy, but I haven't fully worked out the connection.
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Just remember that the zucchinis taste better when they are smaller. More tender that way. Don't wait until they are the size of footballs before you pick them. It's easy to forget this point.
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I really want to try eating stuffed zucchini blossoms this year. I'll see if I can find the recipe that I was eyeing... That'd get a jump on your bounty.
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<a href="http://www.pfaf.org/leaflets/flowers.php">It looks like they're edible.</a> Honeysuckle is, too, but I don't think you can confuse 'em.
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lurkin old school
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Bruce, I ate a columbine. Thought of you. kinda sweet, but not nectary. (er..the flower)
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#69 |
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Of course the flower, I'm nectary as hell.
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To shreds, you say?
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That was a very columbine looking dwarf honeysuckle there. Last week we hosted Elfin Bedwe'er's playgroup and some of the moms decided to get all "back to the land" and started nibbling tall volunteers from the paths between the raised beds. Later inb the day, I'm weeding and I get a "What's this? We ate some of it and we thought it tasted pretty good and we should put it in a salad mix." Weeell, that is a shasta daisy. Right next to it is a foxglove. Don't be eating things you don't know anymore, 'cause I ain't gonna be a single dad nursing no toddler.
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![]() J and I put up a little leaning chicken wire wall for the beans and peas to climb. ![]() The pole variety of bean grows a large stalk very quickly. The stalk twirls a little so it automatically weaves its way into the chicken wire. ![]() The peas have little tendrils that reach out and, when they find something, they wrap tightly wround it. Half of them have found the chicken wire. Once they wrap, the tendrils can't be undone... they wrap tight. Some garden weasel, probably the local rabbit, has started eating these leaves. It must die. But since I won't kill it, we will be putting up more chicken wire as fencing. ![]() Left to right, carrots, zucc, cauliflower. Yes the zucc is growing right massive immediately, and we have taken one out, leaving us with two plants. ![]() The corn has begun, and we will thin it next week. ![]() Proud Jacquelita ![]() Proud UT ![]() Proud Jacquelita and UT together not in a garden. |
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You two are honorary hicks. You'll have to get some bib-overalls or some Amish duds.
Oh and good luck with the bunny, although they usually don't just nibble the edges. Might be an insect or snail. You could plant some orange columbine for him. ![]()
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Marigolds are supposed to be a good bunny deterrant, but I think you'd do better to invest in a bottle of coyote urine.
I'm not sure what Pearl and Bean will think of it, though.
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All precautions have been taken against undue pollenation...!
Overnight, two of the bean stalks reached the top of the mesh. Now that whole "jack and the bean stalk" thing makes much more sense. In under two weeks they grew four feet! |
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