11 Edible Flowers With Potential Health Benefits
Hibiscus
Dandelion
Lavender
Honeysuckle
Nasturtium
Borage
Purslane
Rose
Squash Blossoms
Pansy
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/edible-flowers#TOC_TITLE_HDR_10
Good Morning! :-)
I just finished harvesting my garlic scapes and the snow peas are done with their first good batch of peas. Got lots of romaine, too.
My tomatoes flowered and fruited early, but the tomatoes near the bottom when the plants were little, are kind of yellowish and very hard and dry looking. I pulled them off, figuring they would amount to anything. I never saw tomatoes do that before.
I planted more lettuce, beans, and lots of dill.
I’ve been harvesting and drying the herbs and some of the scapes. The rest of the scapes I’m freezing.
Went to Ace Hardware for a couple of bags of compost for this Almond Agaricus mushroom spawn to grow in. No compost this year. They sell plants and have 10 types of bagged soil but no compost. No composted manure. No peat moss. Nothing like that. They had things like that last year. Weird.
The other little hardware store had manure/compost mix .05 - .05 - .05 which should work fine.
I got the 2 lb jug of spawn/sawdust instead of the 5lb bag. They say two 9 sqft beds for 5 lbs which works out to 3.6 sqft/lb or 7.2 sqft for 2lbs. I’m going to shoot for 6.5 sq ft or so.
Just went out and measured the two bags of compost sitting stacked one on top of the other. Came out to 2.2 sq ft and 6-7” tall. They recommend at least 5” deep. I need more compost. They say you can double the rate of spawn to compost so maybe I’ll get two more bags for 4.4 sqft x 6” deep. Don’t want to spend any more money than that on this experiment.
If it goes/grows well, I’ll do it on a larger more cost effective scale next year by taking advantage of their discount for quantity spawn pricing and should have enough of my own compost for it. I think I can scrape and scoop up about 20 gallons of goat manure from the barn as of right now.
Belt for the finish mower came in so I’ll be mowing the over 1 foot tall grass down and can shred some leaves too this weekend.