2022 Garden Thread

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

grilled kale is fantastic too.

Grilled Kale Salad with Ricotta and Plums

Quickly grilling kale makes it crispy. Pairing it with fresh plums and ricotta transforms it into our new favorite salad.

www.bonappetit.com

Some folks are not texture eaters. Kale to some is a textural afront

 

[Zak]

I put shredded kale in a gallon ziplock bag with olive oil, lemon juice, and salt and massage it and let it sit for at least an hour. It becomes very tender. Then I use it as the base of a salad with sliced almonds and craizins (or if I'm feeling fancy, pomegranate seeds), and parmesan cheese.

 

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

I put shredded kale in a gallon ziplock bag with olive oil, lemon juice, and salt and massage it and let it sit for at least an hour. It becomes very tender. Then I use it as the base of a salad with sliced almonds and craizins (or if I'm feeling fancy, pomegranate seeds), and parmesan cheese.

Sounds good… dried cranberries are a go to with chopped walnuts chopped olives and chopped walnut. I had an “empty dijon mustard squeeze bottle added a T of avacado oil a bit of rice vinegar and several T of water shake and salad dressing… great on a multi green salad of torn romaine fresh kale and Dutch corn salad with the above ingredients each a different bite. We are eating tossed salad creations almost daily

 

[Gary Knowels]

Tuscan/lacinato kale is out favorite to grow. We have it year round, mostly in salads pretreatment with heat or acid it's required. I mostly opt for salting and lemon juice with a quick massage then let it rest for half an hour before finishing the salad prep. In winter we really like it with roasted butternut squash, pepitas, feta, dried cherries, and honey Dijon vinaigrette.

 

[Dr. Magill]

My new friend:

I’m growing an Amaranths dread lock

 

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

My new friend:
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I’m growing an Amaranths dread lock

I have about 12 ounces of amaranth seed/ aka love lies bleeding sort… when i harvested the seeds i got some dollar store panty hose and cut the legs off using them to pull over the huge blooms and rubber band the base of the stems and hung about 8 4-5’ long stems in the shop until they dried. Then crushed them in the hose legs so the seed would collect in the bottom of the hose. Tried winnowing the seed from chaff but ended up using a large fine sieve to do that. My experiments with amaranth go back to the 80’s…harvesting is too much work….

 

[Mossback]

I like the plant, and grow the burgandy/red leaf variety a local farm grows.
Not growing it for the seeds...too much work.

 

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

I like the plant, and grow the burgandy/red leaf variety a local farm grows.
Not growing it for the seeds...too much work.

Love amaranth… but it commands an area for a few years and where not wanted

 

[Dr. Magill]

I’m just goin for the look

 

[Dr. Magill]

I have about 12 ounces of amaranth seed/ aka love lies bleeding sort… when i harvested the seeds i got some dollar store panty hose and cut the legs off using them to pull over the huge blooms and rubber band the base of the stems and hung about 8 4-5’ long stems in the shop until they dried. Then crushed them in the hose legs so the seed would collect in the bottom of the hose. Tried winnowing the seed from chaff but ended up using a large fine sieve to do that. My experiments with amaranth go back to the 80’s…harvesting is too much work….

Birds eat them right??

 

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

Birds eat them right??

Just like millet. And btw the descriptin previously of my last harvest I coined, “taming the octopus”

 

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

All my winter crops have launched in the last week…noticibly

 

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

State of the garden

 

[Gary Knowels]

I'm harvesting Easter egg radishes and balboa arugula now with broccoli raab, Tuscan kale, and lettuce coming soon.

 

[Zak]

My box of baby lettuces is doing well and needs to be thinned.

 

[Stonedfish]

Got my catch all corner kind of put back together. In the past few years, I’ve had multiple trucks run over it. Two to the point they had to be towed out of the ditch. Never received a note from anyone like “ hey, sorry we damaged your property.
Not sure what I’ll end up plant in there as it can’t get too big or it will block the view for cars turning the corner.
May just level it out and cover it with beauty bark and grow some tomatoes in pots on it for this summer as it gets sun all day. I’m pretty sure it will get run over again.
SF

 

[Zak]

Got my catch all corner kind of put back together. In the past few years, I’ve had multiple trucks run over it. Two to the point they had to be towed out of the ditch. Never received a note from anyone like “ hey, sorry we damaged your property.
Not sure what I’ll end up plant in there as it can’t get too big or it will block the view for cars turning the corner.
May just level it out and cover it with beauty bark and grow some tomatoes in pots on it for this summer as it gets sun all day. I’m pretty sure it will get run over again.
SF

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maybe hold up some plants near the edge with short rebar spikes?

 

[Dr. Magill]

Big ass rocks-
3 will be needed for the Feng Shui effect and keep your rhythm up

 

[Deansie]

Not necessarily from the “garden” but came home from a work trip last night to a bowl full of morels that we’re harvested in the backyard and being cleaned. Dinner is going to be good tonight!!

 

[Capt Insano Emeritis]

Big ass rocks-
3 will be needed for the Feng Shui effect and keep your rhythm up

Columnar basalt… unless your municipality won’t allow you to putthem thereon your own property cuz you never know when another idiot loses control on the cul d sac and explodes their car and selves trying to turn around.