Saturday morning the fountain was set back into the birdbath and hooked up. After a few minutes it started working. It was not shooting a great jet of water or anything, but it did work. It was put in the greenhouse before I went to the office because a freeze was projected for Sunday morning.
The greenhouse is almost ready for the bedding plants to be started. All that is missing is the seeds. An attempt was made to place an order with Park Seed, but their webpage did not seem to be working properly. The order was submitted several times but there was some type of endless loop that prevented the order going through. There has not been time to re-place the order.
Sunday morning a new planting of onions and radishes was set out. The weather will likely be too cold for them to grow as fast as the earlier plantings but the freezes don’t really hurt them and the sunny days will produce some growth. The radishes that were planted earlier are so big that they look like turnips.
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/
Showing posts with label radishes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label radishes. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Forgotten Arugula
Somehow the arugula was left out of the fall planting. Someone somewhere mentioned arugula and I tried to remember if it had been planted. No, it hadn’t. It got planted yesterday. The rain is supposed to come today, so maybe it will be off to a fast start. The first of the scarlet globe, white tipped radishes were picked yesterday; but there are no salad greens to go with them. These are beautiful big radishes and they are not pithy at all.
The mesclun and spinach are coming up, but they are still too small to pick. We have had 3 messes of sallet greens and one mess was given away. They are tender and delicious. The stems were even tender enough to leave them in. We are saving the greens from the radishes to mix with the next batch.
The dry weather has really hampered the garden growth. The garden has needed watering every day. Rain is predicted for today and the sky is cloudy. I even heard thunder a little while ago. Pray for rain please.
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/
The mesclun and spinach are coming up, but they are still too small to pick. We have had 3 messes of sallet greens and one mess was given away. They are tender and delicious. The stems were even tender enough to leave them in. We are saving the greens from the radishes to mix with the next batch.
The dry weather has really hampered the garden growth. The garden has needed watering every day. Rain is predicted for today and the sky is cloudy. I even heard thunder a little while ago. Pray for rain please.
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/
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Greens, Greens and More Greens
Greens, Greens and More Greens
The greens, both salad and cooking are the stars of the garden right now. There are turnips, mustard, kale and Swiss chard. All are growing faster than we can eat them. We are giving away a “mess” a day and eating them every night. These are great sources of Vitamin C, and A and folic acid. The flavor is great with a little Texas Pete. I even ate some leftovers with my eggs Sunday morning.
Spinach of course can go both ways. We are cooking the spinach from the fall garden and using the spinach from the spring garden for salads. The other part of the salad greens is mesclun mix. I don’t remember what the show was; but there was a lady on TV harvesting mesclun with scissors. It is so easy. Just grab the top of the plant and give it a “haircut”. Picking really goes fast and the mesclun grow back faster too.
Probably the possibility of a complete salad from the garden is impossible here. By the time tomatoes and cucumbers are coming in, the spinach, lettuce and mesclun will have bolted. There are, at least, radishes and spring onions. Radishes, carrots and beets were planted together. As the radishes are harvested more room is available and the soil is loosened for the slower growing carrots and beets.
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/.
The greens, both salad and cooking are the stars of the garden right now. There are turnips, mustard, kale and Swiss chard. All are growing faster than we can eat them. We are giving away a “mess” a day and eating them every night. These are great sources of Vitamin C, and A and folic acid. The flavor is great with a little Texas Pete. I even ate some leftovers with my eggs Sunday morning.
Spinach of course can go both ways. We are cooking the spinach from the fall garden and using the spinach from the spring garden for salads. The other part of the salad greens is mesclun mix. I don’t remember what the show was; but there was a lady on TV harvesting mesclun with scissors. It is so easy. Just grab the top of the plant and give it a “haircut”. Picking really goes fast and the mesclun grow back faster too.
Probably the possibility of a complete salad from the garden is impossible here. By the time tomatoes and cucumbers are coming in, the spinach, lettuce and mesclun will have bolted. There are, at least, radishes and spring onions. Radishes, carrots and beets were planted together. As the radishes are harvested more room is available and the soil is loosened for the slower growing carrots and beets.
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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