Today's harvest: Burgundy okra, pineapple tomatillos, green onions, Thai basil, raspberries, Thai chili
Monday, 30 May 11 32°C / 89°F
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Today’s harvest: Burgundy okra, pineapple tomatillos (shown after removing the husks), Guardsman green onions (my first harvest from those), and Thai basil. Also, not pictured, I harvested 3 Matt’s wild cherry tomatoes, 3 raspberries and 1 more Super Thai chili (which my husband reports was very, very HOT).
I watered the vegetable garden, the streetside garden, the natives garden, most of the sidewalk garden, the Colocasia garden, the pond garden, and the compost pile. We’re at 0.41 inches for the past 30 days, and no rain is forecast for the next 9 days. I really need to look into setting up drip irrigation in at least a few garden beds.
This afternoon I went out and tried to program our lawn sprinklers to run automatically every Tuesday and Friday morning – I’ll find out whether I did it right when I wake up tomorrow morning! Fortunately there’s been a reasonable amount of rain inland of us, which has drained into the reservoir that provides my area with water, so there aren’t any watering restrictions in place despite our lack of rain locally.
Wildlife report: This morning I heard a woodpecker, and then saw a pair of HUGE pileated woodpeckers fly over my backyard, land on our back fence, and then fly off into a neighbor’s tree. They were beautiful! I hope to see them again. I also saw a pair of chickadees drinking from dew that had accumulated in two upright bamboo fence posts, and some redheaded sparrows and mourning doves stopped by to drink at the fountain again. And two Carolina anole lizards courted each other on my screen door, and then scampered off elsewhere to get some privacy. :)
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First peppers + Lots of cherry tomatoes and tomatillos
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Garlic chives Harvesting, Garlic 'Music' Harvesting, and Garlic 'Ajo Rojo' Harvesting
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Photo Updates: Purple fountain garden
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Bloom Day: May 2013 (... and falling behind)
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The warm season vegies are hitting their stride
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Comments
flowerweaver wrote:
Beautiful presentation on the photos! I think Thai peppers are often used to flavor soups then discarded, but not usually eaten except by the very brave :)
Posted on 31 May 11 (almost 2 years ago)
redloon wrote:
DH chopped up the entire pepper (minus the seeds I think) and included it in pad see ew made with Thai basil and green onions from my garden plus broccoli and carrots from our farm share (which we’ve decided we probably don’t need) and chicken, soba noodles, low sodium soy sauce, dark soy sauce, fish sauce, oyster sauce, ginger, and garlic. I was a bit worried when DH told me that he had put the entire chili in our dinner, shortly after commenting on how hot the chili was! But fortunately the heat level was just right. Thanks. :)
Posted on 31 May 11 (almost 2 years ago)
seeingreen wrote:
Sounds an utterly delicious meal? Your tomatillos are the same colour as mine were (though seed packet called them cape gooseberries). I thought they were supposed to be really quite orange, having never seen them before. The husks were dry and papery and falling on the ground too at the end of the summer. I’ve looked for the empty seed packet – thought I’d saved it but no joy – as it may be the variety I grew which doesn’t have a good flavour. Reading around, apparently some are more savoury and others sweeter. Perhaps its was just my taste, but I’d really like to sample a sweet one. Do you wait until all traces of green are gone?
Posted on 01 Jun 11 (almost 2 years ago)
redloon wrote:
Last night’s dinner was delicious, and made for great leftovers tonight!
Regarding the pineapple tomatillos, I ate all of the ones in the photo last night. The green-tinged ones have a distinctly tangy flavor, but the orange-tinged ones are sweet. I should mention that I tend to prefer fruit and berries slightly under-ripe, since I’m a fan of sour/tangy.
Posted on 01 Jun 11 (almost 2 years ago)
KathN wrote:
I’m having harvest envy! We’re so cold and wet in the PNW that I’m not sure we’ll have enough time for tomatoes and peppers to grow let alone fruit.
What a gorgeous bounty you have!
Posted on 01 Jun 11 (almost 2 years ago)
redloon wrote:
Charleston is in a wonderful part of the gardening season right now, that’s for sure! Hopefully the PNW will warm up and get things growing soon. :)
Posted on 02 Jun 11 (almost 2 years ago)
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