No gardening all weekend (fri, sat, sun) except to harvest kale on Friday after setting up for my weekend art/craft show.
With it, I made ‘massaged’ kale salad. Mixed olive oil, honey and lemon juice ground cayenne, salt and pepper. In total, this dressing amounted to approximately 1 tablespoon. I wisked it thoroughly, julienned the de-ribbed kale leaves and added it to the dressing and then massaged for about 1 minute….actually, less. Added finely sliced red onion and pumpkin seeds and tossed. I prepared this on Saturday after the show and my overnight guest and I loved it! This inspires me to grow a couple of plants of a more tender variety like maybe red russian. Does anyone have a recommendation for a tender leaf kale?
I’m on a kale kick. Trying to get brave about adding it to my occasional yogurt/fruit smoothie.
My ‘show’ was a a ‘reasonable’ paycheck; I got lots of great feedback from attendees and as a bonus, was asked to be the show’s ‘Artist of the Year’ for 2013. Show co-ordinator(s) took lots of images of my work and will use them for all show promotions.
I spoke to a fellow craftsperson who is a gardener and we frequently compare notes. He mentioned that his onions were small and wondered if he planted them to closely together. When he showed me the distance, I didn’t think so but thought the rainy, more-cloudy-fewer-sunny-days might be the culprit. As I was saying this to him it occurred to me that this might affect our garlic crop since garlic is in the allium family. Does anyone else have thoughts on this. I know, I can just go and pull one plant and get an idea but I thought I’d ask if this is a reasonable conclusion.
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Day 32
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Comments
Mamabluestem wrote:
Congrats on Artist of the Year 2013!
Posted on 10 Jul 12 (11 months ago)
anelson wrote:
I have had more cold, cloudy and rainy days than you for sure and my garlic did great. Onions do well here too.
I have grown white russian, red russian and blue curled kale; I don’t notice much difference between them except that the red russian reseeded so that is what I grow now.
Congratulations on the success of your show!
Posted on 10 Jul 12 (11 months ago)
seeingreen wrote:
My onions are much slower this year than last, which I’m putting down to not having enough sun on the developing bulbs but it’s only the second year I’ve grown onions from seed so it could well be something else entirely. My garlic, recently harvested did very well.
Congrats on your artistic success and may you have many more!
Posted on 10 Jul 12 (11 months ago)
rosemarieGardener wrote:
Thank you all for your congrats and feedback on garlic!
Posted on 11 Jul 12 (11 months ago)
HollyBee wrote:
Congratulations Artist of the Year!
Posted on 13 Jul 12 (11 months ago)
rosemarieGardener wrote:
Thank you, HollyBee!
Posted on 13 Jul 12 (11 months ago)
Fhaith wrote:
Kale…. ahhhhhhhhhhhhh (grin)
Congratulations! I’d love to see what you do!
Kale dreams… dinosaur and red russian. One thing I haven’t tried is massaging my kale. I’ll have to try it.
Posted on 14 Jul 12 (11 months ago)
rosemarieGardener wrote:
Fhaith….you can ‘google’ Massaged Kale Salad….for true. By coincidence today, I posted an image of one of my pieces.
Posted on 14 Jul 12 (11 months ago)
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