Gardening

Posted By admin on May 26, 2009

Three Sisters garden

Three Sisters garden

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Garlic with scape

Garlic with scape

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pickled scapes

pickled scapes


I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend. I was able to get out in the garden to spruce it up a bit. Here is the progress on my Three Sisters Gardens. I only got two planted this year but since I have never done it before it is a bit of an experiment. The corn and beans are coming along nicely and I was able to plant the squash in the outer ring. Since it is an experiment I decided to buy 4 zucchini plants at the co-op while I was there. You can never have too much zucchini … right?

 

 

I mulched around the tomatoes and peas and cucumber also with newspaper and straw. Since this was a patch of grass I am having a ton of grass come up. Everything is doing so well, my tomato plants even have baby tomatoes on them. Even my cow peas are starting to come up.

 

Then I checked in on my garlic patch to see how it is coming along and if it will be ready to harvest soon. I was pleased to see a bunch of garlic scapes! I had almost forgotten about that little treat. A scape is the shoot that comes out of the stiffneck garlic to form a flower. Well we want the plants energy to go to the bulb and not the flower so we pick them. If you grasp it firmly and pull gently you can pull it all the way out. The most tender part is what is pulled out. These are delicious on salads or in soups… anything you would put green onions in, or you can pickle them.

 

 

I trim mine the length of a quart canning jar and I use the Dilly Bean recipe out of the Ball Blue Book. It is a rare treat.

 

 

Above there is a picture of the scapes that I just pulled out and to the left is a jar of pickled scapes that I did last year. Last jar left…just in time.

 

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I am a work at home Mom of two of the best boys ever. I am a Nationally Certified Master Groomer and have been grooming out of my home for the last 12 years. We have recently moved to Greenbrier Tn on 27 acres. We are new to the "homesteading thing" but we are excited to learn. We hope to be filling our farm with many critters and a garden. We are homeschoolers so everything is a unit study to us. It has been fun to see the boys help Dad cut firewood. We will also be learning how to build a chicken coop in the near future as well. I have been making handcrafted soap lately as well and I am seeing an improvement in that business as well. It is all natural vegetable and goat milk based soaps. Can't wait to share this experience with everyone.

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3 Responses to “Gardening”

  1. My Amazing Weight Loss Story says:
    May 28, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    Thanks for posting, I truly enjoyed reading your latest post. I think you should post more frequently, you evidently have talent for blogging!

  2. I Lost Thirty Pounds in Thirty Days says:
    May 27, 2009 at 11:23 am

    Great Post, Thanks.

  3. MOM says:
    May 26, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    I’ve never tried the scapes…pickled or otherwise. How do you use them pickled? They look wonderful and fresh green! Love ya, MOM

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