What's the big smile about? That's
Ron Chandler smiling at me at the McRorie Community Garden on the 24th. Ron's been in Asia, as you all may have read on his blog. I've been in the thin air of Crested Butte, CO. You can click on the photo above to see the set.
Here's my patch in "weeding progress". The weeds got pretty high while I was gone.
And, here's
Justin Whitfield's patch, looking nice and weed free.
You can see a lot of the garden in this shot. My collard greens, originally planted by
Shmal, are the hardiest members. I love 'em because everything else seems to whither away, but the collard greens abide! And, they taste great, sauteed with butter and some garlic chives. I have experimented a lot using the
Ethnic Veg Cooking book, trying to duplicate recipes I tasted in
Senegal. You can share your best stuff in the
Veg Cooking group.
These are some hardy herbs growing in Ron's patch.
You can see here that Blake has been creative once again configuring his patch.
If you look closely here, you'll see the word "HARVEST" spelled out in the separator used between Blake's patch and the next.
Here's a good job of planting salad greens in well tilled rows.
This beautiful patch is full of hardy plants in a weed free environment.
This is my Daikon Radish grown from seeds Sh'mal saved and gave to me before he moved to Seattle. I see some seeds from it that I will send to Shmal for his new garden in the northwest.
Here's some manure ready to be distributed on the garden as fertilizer. We get it from nearby horse farms. There's sometimes bat guano, too. We have a big bat colony at Univ of Florida.
These are my hardy collard greens. As much as I travel, it's a good thing that the collards are the major inhabitant of my patch. They survive everything!
Here's
Justin Whitfield taking care of his patch.
Alll in all, a great day at the garden. I'm writing this from Orlando - with collard greens ready for lunch in the fridge. I'll be back soon! Love to hear about your garden exploits and summer planting plans...Chow for now!
