Posted on March 22, 2023March 22, 202303/22/2023 nighttime-only cat! babies!!! And dinner! Briar helpfully alerted me to a potential friend carefully crossing the back fence today! What a magnificent neighbor. Turns out a few peach flowers survived. The ones with dropped petals are quite striking with pale tips over maroon backgrounds! I believe this is the annual (?) Cardamine sp from nearby seeded into the prickly pear planter. Abby has kindly identified this as a human-introduced species Armeria serpyllifolia, thyme-leaved sandwort. It isn’t from North American originally but doesn’t seem to dramatically disturb the landscape. This one may be an introduced chickweed. But a fuzzy one, not Stellaria media. More baby inland sea oat seedlings in a second pot!my Multiple baby native Rosa sp from Fannin Co TX. Thanks Mom! This seems big enough to be the persimmon I actually planted?? Seedlings in false gaura pot, but not sure they look right. Oklahoma penstemon given to me by a kind fellow Norman citizen! Maybe smartweed amongst the Chenopodium. We shall see. A Datura maybe?? The label fell out of this pot. Anybody recognize this seed? I am informed the mustard leaf garnish is from garden and that the soup contains poblanos from last year from the freezer.
Posted on March 21, 2023March 21, 202303/21/2023 garden walking onions and cilantro Fried tofu with sesame seeds and garnished with garden cilantro Green curry by Paula!
Posted on March 15, 2023March 15, 202303/14/2023 garden salad Garden salad contains green wave mustard, scotch blue curled kale, and bloomsdale long standing spinach. Cucumbers and carrots from farm share. Parsley and fennel on main chicken dish also from farm share.
Posted on January 21, 2023January 21, 202301/18/2023 refried bean learning times and field violet transplants It rained 0.31” in Norman in the night on 01/18. The night before I moved a bunch of seedlings of Viola bicolor, the wild annual field violets that volunteer in the yard. I want more of them as ground cover for early spring so I am moving many from existing locations in and near the raised beds. They seem to be doing well! When I’ve transplanted larger plants once they bloom, they don’t do nearly as well. Paula prepared tepary beans for refrying. The pair of tiny ones at the bottom are wild type teparies. Paula made a quesadilla with a layer of the refried tepary beans. Her diagnosis was that they worked fine and had a good taste, but that she should have added more lard and onions to make them less dry.
Posted on January 21, 2023January 21, 202301/21/2023 refried cowpeas Paula has been experimenting with what beans can be refried using the Rancho Gordo refried bean recipe. The refried cowpeas were great! These were the Corrientes cowpeas from last summer. Tacos had ground venison for the meat; the non-tomato veggies were mostly from the farmshare.
Posted on January 1, 2023January 1, 202301/01/2023 new year frolic at Lexington Liverworts near the parking area! Briar is always blinking when she gets her picture taken. We saw some very green fine stuff covering the Sandy loam. Some obvious moss nearby. Then the green stuff with moss capsules! When I got home I saw Mom’s blog post from today. The very fine green coating appears to be the protonema life stage of the moss! Thanks Mom! Guess ‘tis the season. Dog eyes open this time. A big cluster of dead ants. No idea why. A mystery plant on the edge of the path cut. The leftover seed heads of the mystery plant. A second smaller individual of this mysterious plant. The habitat of the mysterious plant. Paula spotted this gorgeous greenbriar leaf! Briar leaps from the water. It was warm out! Bounce bounce bounce! miraculously she wasn’t muddy. Good clean water. Enjoying some last smells before we head home. The Chef made Hoppin’ John for dinner. The green is chard from our garden, frozen from a previous season. The black eyed peas were from the farm share. Paula made cornbread from scratch.
Posted on December 11, 2022December 11, 202212/11/2022 teparies in soup Yum. Tortilla soup by Wes. Paula made the beans and used up 2021’s mix of tepary beans from the garden!
Posted on December 6, 2022December 6, 202212/06/2022 green tomatoes Friends gave us the extra tomatoes from their garden when it was about to freeze. They have been gradually turning red over the last few weeks. Tonight Paula used some of the green ones in a spicy yet delicious dish!
Posted on November 24, 2022November 24, 202211/24/2022 plenty of thanks We thought it was supposed to rain today, so yesterday we picked up all the tomato cages and put all the vegetable debris in the city compost pile. (I don’t know that ours gets hot enough to kill any diseases.). We piled the dead marigolds on the bed where we’ll put peppers next year. We put some sugar pea seeds there to see if the debris will shelter them. We took the plastic off the greens so they could get rain. We put cilantro seeds everywhere and carrot seeds among the greens. For Thanksgiving, Paula started our Corrientes cowpeas soaking. The Turkey is from Paula’s aunt and uncle in Texas where they raise some. All the veggies in the beans are from the farm share except garden poblanos. Wes used some store apples and store ham as flavors. But otherwise the veggies are all our garden or the farm share!
Posted on November 13, 2022November 13, 202211/12/2022 frosty Marigolds are done. Photo by Paula. Winecup rosettes are fine for the winter! Photo also by Paula. We went to look at Saxon park. It was fun. Then we went home. Having dog thoughts in the backyard. Catctus Tom kha (Thai coconut chicken soup). Has garden lemongrass in it. Lemongrass is not frost hardy so Paula divided the stems to keep a few indoors over the winter, and froze a bunch of stems to use.