Posted on May 29, 2022May 29, 2022A very unfortunate season for cilantro here Blanching night! The cilantro by the porch kept threatening to flower, and the community supported agriculture farm share bag this week had more summer squash and zucchini than we wanted to deal with. Right now a single cilantro plant has reseeded and it’s in this crack by the front porch. I think since I found this one, there are a few more out in the raised beds, but it’s nothing like last year’s glorious multiple beds. Here it has received a heavy duty haircut. 59 g of cilantro. Two units of cilantro. There was the 59 g from our porch crack plant and a small bundle from the weekly farm share delivery. I squeeze out water from the blanched herb and then put them in these balls. They work fine for salsa verde, though I don’t have any tomatillo plants this year, sigh. Lessons learned about pot drainage. The zucchini and summer squash in the freezer, spread out so they don’t become a solid squash ice rock.
Posted on April 17, 2022April 17, 2022Sunday garden check up Blue flax seedlings are getting tiny new leaves. Possibly a false gaura! It looks different from the common volunteers! Two Datura wrightii seedlings! A senna hopeful. It is actually a bit rough, so maybe this is the rough leaf sunflower?? A redbud I potted up last year. The Euphorbia from Mom and Dad’s house is perking back up. Roman chamomile did well while I was gone! Lettuce and bok choy doing good. Two more fluttermill Missouri primrose seedlings up! The horse crippler cactus transplanted from Mom’s garden. I’ve put a drip on the ground plum (actually a legume) since yesterday, as it seems to be having a rough transplant. This is also into the rock garden. In the rainbow garden, a mystery seedling. Maybe two leaf senna??? Butterfly milkweed is coming up in rainbow garden. Maybe another butterfly milkweed? It’s in the right place. A single cilantro seedling. The only one in the yard. In that crack. A winecup from two years ago. Purple prairie clover from two years ago. Maybe Liatris leaves? It’s in the right spot. Another mystery seedling. Tall vervain is perking up a bit. Ten petal anemone are perking up too! Greeneyes getting bigger! My blue stars are blooming! Salvia azurea leaves.
Posted on December 28, 2021December 28, 2021Thai green curry From garden: cilantro, bok choy, walking onion. Other ingredients include random assorted vegetables. It was delicious!! Thanks Paula!!!
Posted on December 12, 2021December 12, 2021Venison and hog chili paste with sweet basil and egg foo yong Paula cooked us this delicious Thai sour and spicy entree. From the garden ingredients were green tomatoes, walking onions, and cilantro. The dessert in the middle is called bua loy, which is rice flour balls in sweetened coconut milk. A delicious and filling meal!!
Posted on October 24, 2021October 24, 2021Threshing and winnowing last spring’s coriander Two of our friends came over yesterday and all four of us decided to deal with the coriander we’ve saved since spring. No reason, we just hadn’t had time to do it yet. Look carefully to see pouring to let wind take away non-seed bits.
Posted on July 12, 2021July 12, 2021Afternoon and evening Argiope spider. We call them banana spiders for the yellow but I think most people call them garden spiders. Missouri fluttermill primrose in the rock/sedum garden continues to bloom! Many tomatoes along with kohlrabi. A caterpillar on cilantro. Maybe a cutworm? It looks familiar… Uzbek golden carrots! Excited to try them… I harvested a bit early on two. Oops. Wes made hot pot style soup. It contains chard, kohlrabi stem and leaves, green beans, sweet peppers, onions, and green onions. A view of the spread. We have a vaccinated guest!!
Posted on June 25, 2021June 25, 2021After work, garden times Plant instructions said to let them readjust to the world before planting, so they are outside in indirect light to start. Cilantro turning to coriander (the seed). White currant tomato seeds saved from last year grew true to variety!! Garlic harvest was very sparse. I guess the big February deep freeze got more than I thought. Moon and stars watermelon leaf has such adorable “stars”! I can’t wait for the fruit. Added more cardboard to my backyard Bermuda grass killing operation. Thank you Dad for this excellent giant cardboard!! One area of Bermuda grass in the backyard seemed dead enough to reseed with buffalograss and curly mesquite grass. A beautiful very smooth gray moth. Maybe an Arctiid? I need to look it up. My finger for scale.
Posted on June 5, 2021June 5, 2021Happenings! Yellow granex onions (white granex flowers appear same as far as I can tell). Garlic flowers with cilantro/coriander flowers in background. Mini bell pepper begins! Another sweet pepper, this one called corbaci! Moon and stars watermelon leaf. The fruit is speckled and honestly I think the leaf is that way too? I searched for online images yesterday and few showed the leaves well but I think it’s not a disease.
Posted on May 21, 2021May 21, 2021Custom cilantro amount The Chef asked for a rosemary amount of cilantro, which is apparently 9 grams. Briar has helpfully captured 1 Gram as a pillow.
Posted on May 5, 2021May 5, 2021Radishes and cilantro Sooooo much cilantro. Radishes sparse this year as earwigs took out a lot of seedlings