Gha!

Guess I should be glad I have cilantro coming in all over.  And the piggies will eat as much as I can grow.  

Good post.  I have enough space to do more than I am.  

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For who could have foretold
That the heart grows old.
W.B. Yeats

I know my father's reaction to turnips was typical:  Yuck!  He grew up on a farm, at least when he was a young child, and hated them ever after.  They were bitter and disgusting.

All I can figure is, those turnips must have been too old at harvest and spent way too long in the root cellar before being cooked.  I love turnips in stews, for example, and the long, slow cooking makes them come out sweet.  (This assumes the turnips were good in the first place, of course.)

So when Dad was alive, I just didn't tell him there were turnips in the stew.  They kinda look like potatoes, after all....  And sometimes I like to mash turnips & potatoes together (gives the dish a lighter quality but it's still wonderful) -- again...no mention of turnips.

And he LIKED what I cooked.  Eventually, I did tell him what he was eating -- also that I would never just boil up a bunch of turnips and serve them that way.  I love 'em, but think they work best as an ingredient in a more complex recipe.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White  

The one tree got too big and ate the original garden's light. The secondary place didn't do well, and the last 2 yrs I had to skip it for the caregiving.

I'm at ground zero here.

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its only 10 X 10, and we are trying to cram a lot in, but not too much...  We decided to plant things we actually eat this year.  Great idea, right?

we decided finally on potato, tomato, green beans, spinach, lettuce, carrots and mustard greens.  I still want turnips, but not sure if we have the space.

We decided to dig a little around the outside of the hoop house for melons and squash, they are just too big to be inside, we will just hope that the cats dont dig it all up to poop in....

This is John's first real garden, and he is so funny, treats his green beans like babies, he's so worried about them... He got about a dozen beans from a too early planting, and sauteed them up in butter for he and the princess to share.  He declared them the best beans he had ever eaten! Hmm...imagine that! Fresh=best!  

He is now excited about his yellow and purple green beans, I hope thay will grow!