Was playing with my camera today and decided to take a picture of myself doing what I like to spend a lot of time doing. Also a little picture of my garden friend in his her safe cage like garden feeder.
Author: Eloine
One big beet!
This was left over from my last havest I didn’t get. I was worried since it was so huge it would be woody bit it wasn’t. I boiled it and it tasted like butter it was so smooth.
Watercress
These I planted inside the garden house because they said it likes shade and moist ares. This container get a bit too much water and was too dark for the snap peas I had growing there. My concern is that it may not like the water since it says it like to be by a stream. It’s supposed to be spicy in flavor. The medicinal uses apparently have an expectorant effect that is used to treat runny nose and cough due to colds and bronchitis. Due to its high vitamin and mineral content, watercress has also been used to treat anemia. The dried leaves are used to make a tea; fresh leaves are added to salads and foods. Juice from the fresh leaves is also used as an antiseptic cleanser for blemished skin.
Tea: Steet 1 to 2 teaspoons dried leaves or 2 to 3 teaspoons fresh leaves in 1 cup boiling water for 10 to 15 minutes. Strain out herbs and drink up to 2 cups tea daily.
Fresh use: Add up to 1 ounce of fresh watercress to salad daily.
Skin cleanser: Juice fresh leaves and apply the juice to blemished skin for 15 minutes.
my worry is that it said to sow 6 – 8 weeks before the last frost. This might have been the last frost so it may be too hot for it. It says you can harvest in early spring so I may be too late. You can store it in the fridge for several hours if you have it in water.
Hmmm the more I read about this plant the more it should be grown hydroponically instead of in soil. Oh well I guess I will see if anything come up! It germinates in 7-14 days.
Nasturtiums and Sunflowers seeds
Just picked these seeds up a Winco today. I liked the little tag that said easy to grow! When reading about it sounds like miracle plant! I hope it grows. I tried my sunflowers too early and also the place I had them next to the fence was not peacock proof enough. In the interest of time I cleared out this bed today and decided to sow some seeds here and my idea is to have nasturtium at the bass of the sunflowers. I found this link that has a lot of good information about the flower.
My pretty pink petunias!
Gosh I just really love petunias now. Actually I just like anything that grows. If it grows in the garden I am a fan of it! I thought these were annuals but all winter long it looked like this. These are called bubble gum petunias. I think you can guess why! 🙂
I mail ordered these from garden crossing. I don’t know if they are better than just picking these up from the local store but they sure grow well. I just bought some white ones today from Raleys. They are different in that the petals are very large. They wave in the wind. We’ll see how they compare. I put some in a pot and some in a hanging basket.
Nice surpise in the garden today
I bought this little bush along with some other plants at Home Depot last year that were 4 for $5. The name of the plant rubbed off the pot. The leaves smell a little sage like. I had no idea it had such pretty flowers. They only seem to last a day. They are very delicate.
My radish crop
Just harvested some of my radishes that I planted from a seed strip. They were so crunchy and tasty
I made radish salsa:
2 avocados
1 jalepeno
1 roma tomato
1 garlic clove
1 shallot
diced cilantro
1 lime
several radishes
and salt to taste
(chop it all up and eat!)
I would have taken a picture to show but I consumed it too fast for that 🙂
Apparently there is a lot of recipes for radish. Check out this link. Can’t wait to try them!