Re: [CH] overlapping years
Jonathan Smillie (jonathan.smillie@gmail.com)
Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:11:55 -0400
Alex, your experience is pretty much mirroring mine right now.
I've got Caribbean Reds and Fataliis bursting out pods and flowers,
while the orange and chocolate habs are still waking up- and I made a
batch of hot sauce last month with frozen chiles from last year's crop,
of which there's still more in the freezer. I marinated chicken in fresh
basil and oregano from the herb garden on Thursday, and I roasted one of
the few survivors of last year's heads of garlic on the same night last
week that I dug up a sample of this year's to check progress (we'll
harvest around July 4).
Meanwhile, our tomato plants are all still heavy with green fruit, but
in about a month I'm going to be canning like a madman.
Jonathan
On 6/19/2010 10:22 AM, Alex Silbajoris wrote:
> While this year's plants have already contributed immature pods to some of our meals, I'm also hissing from eating pizza baked with last year's frozen orange habs.
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> Some of my plants are doing well, but others haven't "hit" yet, they're still small and pale. One by one they're sprouting new dark foliage and beginning to take off.
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> I also have some Thai-type volunteers from last year, and those were volunteers then as well.
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> Meanwhile the zukes and cukes are rioting. The dill is in flower, the overwintered sage had a shamelessly orgasmic bloom, and the overwintered potatoes are hilled up and beginning to flower. The new oregano is pushing the overwintered marjoram out of the pot.
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> I so love having fresh herbs right outside the door, I'm having a blast cooking with them.
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