Subj : berries
To   : SHAWN HIGHFIELD
From : JIM WELLER
Date : Tue Jun 14 2022 22:23:00

-=> Quoting Shawn Highfield to Jim Weller <=-

 JW> Your season is substantially earlier than in the upper Ottawa
 JW> Valley.

 SH> I checked, still a bit too early, but they are almost ready.  I'd say
 SH> next week sometime we'll start to see berries.

Ok then, you are just one week ahead of the OV.

My great grandson has one strawberry plant of his very own which he
waters diligently. He picks his own berries daily and gets quite
irate if anyone else tries to pick one. "MINE!" He also has one snow
pea plant and is checking the pods daily, waiting for his mom to
tell him they are ready to pick. I started his mom off early like
that. We grew garlic shoots and radishes together. I chose them
because they grow so quickly; garlic can grow an inch a day.

Speaking of such Roslind's planter full of radishes is 21 days old and
she thinned them out tonight. Radish greens from bunches of supermarket
radishes are nasty; they're too old, coarse and bitter. But young
leaves, stems and roots are very tasty as a pot herb or in a salad.
I have been chopping up whole plants and sprinkling them over dishes
as I would parsley, cilantro or scallions. The leaves are a bit
peppery, not unlike watercress.  I used them tonight to garnish a
curried soup and also pan fried potatoes with a mix of sweet and hot
peppers and onions.
                      

Cheers

Jim


.... Not much grows in Siberia except horseradish and despair.

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