Middles

This is a dead time in the garden season. Everything is planted. The spring stuff is getting boring. The summer stuff is not producing. Everything is growing pretty fast, including the weeds, but there is nothing to pick except the various greens, herbs and asparagus.

Maybe your tomatoes do not need support yet, but this is time to put the supports up. Our garden uses bamboo trellises. The tomatoes are already up to the 3rd rail. There are loads of little green tomatoes, but none for the salad. The tomatoes that were canned last year are good in a salad, but a good fresh one would be better.

The radishes were planted a few at a time, but even the last planting is getting ready to go to seed. The leaves are good in the mixed greens. Try some poke salad in the mixed greens. The poke salad needs to be cooked and drained and cooked again. The 2nd cooking can be mixed with the other greens. The stalks are good too. Cook them with the greens in the 1st cooking. Peel them and cut them into 6” pieces. They are great sautéed in butter and lemon.







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David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/