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14 Mar 2009Another Use 2 Three-corned Leek Flowering and Weeds or The Unexpected garden8°C / 47°F
After cutting some of these up for the scramble, I put the flowers that came with it in a vase. They’re still going strong. They make a very long-lived cut flower and they don’t look bad, either. If you live in the SF Bay Area and want to give them a try, now’s the time. Early ...
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07 Mar 2009Picked for a Scramble 2 2 Three-corned Leek and Weeds or The Unexpected gardenMy best composter is my refrigerator. Vegetables (and sometimes fruit) go rotten waiting for me to get in the mood to eat produce. It’s one of the reasons I started growing more greens in the garden. I’m behind on my shopping and figured it was high time I had something that didn̵...Sunny 13°C / 55°F
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05 Mar 2009Sown Sourgrass Sown and Weeds or The Unexpected garden
An ineradicable weed in my garden. There are worse weeds (bindweed, for instance) but this one is stubborn, propagates like mad, and shades other plants from the sun.
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05 Mar 2009Making Lemonade from Lemons Sourgrass and Weeds or The Unexpected gardenIt’s remarkably hard to find out information of the native environments of worldwide invasive weeds. While trying to find out more information about the South African habitat of this plant, I found an abstract saying that Phenyl Cinnamate could be extracted from the bulbs of this plant. Not...Cloudy 12°C / 54°F

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