MARCYINCNY1's CalorieKing blog
Tuesday, Feb 12 2008 - Too Much Time
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Sticking close to home the past week, I've been spending more time than I really should plotting and planning the vegetable garden. Years ago I had a huge garden in Kentucky and I went completely nuts, even tried to grow my own capers. I remember growing some salsify but it never came to much.
I've spent most of my almost twenty years here just building the soil and the beds and now I actually have a chance of growing some decent root crops and perhaps some salsify, or more specifically, black salsify or scorzonera (snake root).
The black salsify is considered nutritious: it contains proteins, fats, the glycosides asparagine, choline and laevulin, as well as minerals such as potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, sodium, and vitamins A, B1, E and C. Since it also contains the glycoside inulin, which consists of fructose, it is particularly suitable for diabetics.
I haven't been growing any vines of any sort but this year I'm thinking about giving up on some ornamentals and growing things like sweet potatoes, charentais melons, Musquee de Provence winter squash...
Meanwhile my lovely Red Janice garlic is sprouting...
I've spent most of my almost twenty years here just building the soil and the beds and now I actually have a chance of growing some decent root crops and perhaps some salsify, or more specifically, black salsify or scorzonera (snake root).
The black salsify is considered nutritious: it contains proteins, fats, the glycosides asparagine, choline and laevulin, as well as minerals such as potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, sodium, and vitamins A, B1, E and C. Since it also contains the glycoside inulin, which consists of fructose, it is particularly suitable for diabetics.
I haven't been growing any vines of any sort but this year I'm thinking about giving up on some ornamentals and growing things like sweet potatoes, charentais melons, Musquee de Provence winter squash...
Meanwhile my lovely Red Janice garlic is sprouting...
2 comments so far.
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a decade ago
Oooh gardens. I would love to have a garden! I don't think my dad ever realised where all the vegetables went... I'd raid the peas and carrots and occasionally the corn.. but especially the carrots. And okra. I love okra. You can't really raid parsnips or eggplant; they're no good raw. I now love zucchini and cucumbers too; it's amazing how much my tastes have changed since I was a child. For a while I would just buy random vegetables at the store to try them again. However, my first love will always be yellow vegetables. When I was a baby I turned orange and scared my mom--beta carotene overload! The only baby foods I liked were the carrots and squash!
Sugar beets are a great root crop too--they keep well and are amazing!
by KATANAS
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a decade ago
Oh my gosh! I'd like to dive, head first, into that garden plan of yours. During a blizzard last week, we recieved the first of the seed and bulb catalogs. If Spouse hadn't wrestled them away from me, I'd have spent four thousand dollars on plantings. Last weekend, we debated having gyros, but agreed it was hardly worth the effort with the cardboard tomatoes we have in the stores. Spring is coming...isn't it?
by GTHEISEN