I love to eat them raw, right off the vine- naked. Pop them in my mouth and eat them. I love them prepared other ways as well. But the point is I love them.
This year I have some good non hybrid seedlings going. I transferred them into Ball jar cloches today so that they could have a little bit more room. They seem quite happy. I had to refrain from looking at them all day.
I also have a mess of squash transferred into larger pots as well. They are quite happy about the extra leg room. These seeds are also non hybrids. I love making zucchini bread and butter pickles. I will have to wash out my Ball jars really well.
Finally- also in the greenhouse is a new crop of Mizuna (mustard greens). These are a very fun and spicy veg. My daughter is prone to going out in the greenhouse and picking off clumps of mizuna and eating it. She loves it and it grows right back. Yay for that.
As I said in a previous post, we usually wait to plant the big garden until just after the full moon in May. This year has been very warm. So we took a chance.
We have cultivated four rows of heartier items today: early peas, beets, collards- all in seed form.
We'll see if they do well and if there are frost free nights between now and- well- summer. It's kind of exciting and was a lovely day off with my husband.
We also experimented with black landscape cloth. This should keep the roots warm and minimize weeds.
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