green: Mansfield, Missouri -- Hey, Turnip-head!
- 07/27/07 03:46 PM
I have, for years, endured the row of turnips. I recommended they be considered a good plow-down for our heavy, clay soils, if they even germinated. The ones I had tried tasted like cabbage cores. As long as we had peanut butter and celery, someone else could have the turnips. Turnips are tasty with new potatoes & onions; pretty with the impatienx. Just as yummy and nearly as pretty as Bob Sharpe's Tomatoes-Part 2 It looks like Bob is setting up for some fried green tomatoes. This year, we had turnips germinate like you wouldn't believe! They pushed their little purple … (4 comments)
green: Beware, the Green Takeover!
- 06/18/07 03:32 PM
A couple years ago DH and our grandson had a family compettion to grow a GIANT PUMPKIN. Neither one had much success, but they were kept busy all summer babying their pumpkins. The pumpkin at our house set off a volunteer vine that DH transplanted in the garden. It was absolutely a beautiful vine. But the pumkins were all like that little orange gem in the left bottom corner. But, we still had a picture to send of Grandpa and a giant Pumpkin
The puny pumpkins froze in the winter and met their highest and best use in the compost pile. I said I thought … (12 comments)
green: Mansfield, Missouri -- A Time of Roots
- 05/23/07 07:13 AM
I need roots -- literally. Richard plans to build his dream home, but we know that will be delayed by the Straw Bale Project. But, I cannot continue to live as a temporary person. I have pets buried on these three acres and about 30 little trees that we've 'rescued' and potted. It is time to get a life! Fortunately, this week, the tree thing has been a team project. Richard has tried valiantly to get a sassafras thicket going, but only one has survived. And we put some native cedar juveniles into holes abandoned by other evergreens between us and the … (0 comments)
I have, for years, endured the row of turnips. I recommended they be considered a good plow-down for our heavy, clay soils, if they even germinated. The ones I had tried tasted like cabbage cores. As long as we had peanut butter and celery, someone else could have the turnips. Turnips are tasty with new potatoes & onions; pretty with the impatienx. Just as yummy and nearly as pretty as Bob Sharpe's Tomatoes-Part 2 It looks like Bob is setting up for some fried green tomatoes.
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