Watermelon Fence Revisited
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t would be great to show a picture; but the camera was stolen this weekend. A picture will come as soon as the camera is replaced. The new watermelon fence went up yesterday, complete with last years lessons. The fencing used this time was a plastic wire with a 1” grid. Last year the 2”X 4” wire allowed the baby watermelons to fall through. Some hung below the fence and had to be supported. Some got caught in the grid and were deformed.
One more try was made to plant cucumbers. Only a few of my first planting germinated. None of the next two plantings germinated. This time a trench was dug and filled with compost. The cukes are one of my favorite things from the garden. We are still picking mesclun and oak leaf lettuce. We had a salad with cucumber from the garden and mesclun and nasturtium blossoms. The tomato was store-bought.
Winter Swol has a new recipe for grape leaves stuffed with figs and cheese. I will try to pry it from her mind and share it with you in the next post. Hopefully there will be ripe figs by then and we can try it and include pictures if I get a new camera. The fig tree is loaded, I am confident it will do its part. Shopping for a camera may be more troublesome.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Grape Leaves
Grape Leaves
Last year I planted 6 grape vines. This winter I chopped them back to almost nothing. They have proliferated to the point where they are much longer and larger already than they were last year. There may even be a few grapes this year. A grape vine takes 40 years to produce the really fine wine grapes. There is no need to wait so long to enjoy the fruits of the vine. Grapevines produce leaves even the 1st year.
The internet is loaded with grape leaf recipes. They are all some version of blanching the leaf and stuffing it and either boiling or baking it. Meat is not necessary. Seasoned rice or couscous or something like that will work fine. Most of the recipes call for ground beef, chicken or lamb. The seasonings are limitless. Grapes grow in almost every part of the world; so creative people everywhere have invented grape leaf recipes.
The deer have been eating the leaves on our grapevines; so there are not too many. There are fox grapes growing wild in the back of my office. We will try half and half tame grapes and wild grapes. I’ll let you know how it turns out. Here are some links to some good recipes. http://mideastfood.about.com/b/2006/08/02/warak-eineb-stuffed-grape-leaves-recipe.htm , http://greekfood.about.com/od/greekcookinglessons/ss/foldleaves.htm
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com/ , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Last year I planted 6 grape vines. This winter I chopped them back to almost nothing. They have proliferated to the point where they are much longer and larger already than they were last year. There may even be a few grapes this year. A grape vine takes 40 years to produce the really fine wine grapes. There is no need to wait so long to enjoy the fruits of the vine. Grapevines produce leaves even the 1st year.
The internet is loaded with grape leaf recipes. They are all some version of blanching the leaf and stuffing it and either boiling or baking it. Meat is not necessary. Seasoned rice or couscous or something like that will work fine. Most of the recipes call for ground beef, chicken or lamb. The seasonings are limitless. Grapes grow in almost every part of the world; so creative people everywhere have invented grape leaf recipes.
The deer have been eating the leaves on our grapevines; so there are not too many. There are fox grapes growing wild in the back of my office. We will try half and half tame grapes and wild grapes. I’ll let you know how it turns out. Here are some links to some good recipes. http://mideastfood.about.com/b/2006/08/02/warak-eineb-stuffed-grape-leaves-recipe.htm , http://greekfood.about.com/od/greekcookinglessons/ss/foldleaves.htm
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com/ , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
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