SUMMER SALAD RECIPES
Posted on 06/15/2019 5:24:50 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Wonderful! My broccoli was a bust this season - too much rain. :(
You have GOT to try that ‘Outredgeous’Rromaine from Jung’s next season, or even this fall if they have seed still available.
I’ve got salad greens coming out my ears, so we’ll be eating 1-2 salads a day for the next few weeks.
We don’t mind; lots of fun ways to fix up salads and I add protein with something grilled or canned beans. :)
SUMMER SALAD RECIPES
We’ve been liking ours with hard boiled egg, bacon bits (the real thing) some thin sliced onion and a dressing made from ranch blended with my leftover sundried tomatoes from last year. The dressing is so good I’ve just been spreading a little on a few slices of lettuce. We did grow some red romaine too 6 heads, two heads have already regenerated. We tend to like the white better. We’ve had bigger heads of broccoli in the past just not this year. They make up for it with lots of secondary growth. 12 heads of white romaine is almost more than we can eat.
I like them too but haven’t had any success with them either.
My mom has some at her place though.
Once they get established they come back every year.
Yeah, it’s not like you can ‘preserve’ lettuce in any way.
Well, not that I know of, anyway!
Sounds wonderful :-)
Took an old chandelier and turned it into a solar chandelier for the patio. I like to sip sangria in the evenings and enjoy the glow!
Cute!
I’m off to a late start - my onions are finally going good - 12” to 30” stalks or whatever - so they’re alive - I was afraid I’d killed them all.
My seedlings are still in the starter pellets but going good - I’m taking them outside a bit - transplant in a couple weeks maybe - gotta find enough pots.
SOMETHING a whole lot of something is growing with the onions in the small bed - I’ve put a lot of seeds down there - there’s no telling what I’ll get besides onions. Hope it’s not more of those bad plants but at least I’ll know when they start to “fruit” if it is.
Some sort of poisonous berry found in some soil bags. Have to destroy the “fruit” so animals can’t get to it. Two big plants last year were ripped out.
Does the glow come from the chandelier,
or from the sangria ?
Or Both ?
I have a product review. This thing: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078JKHDC6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
It made planting seeds SOOOO much easier! I’m not sure I’d use it for bulbs or seedlings, which it was technically meant for, because the “beak” doesn’t open wide enough in my soil. But for seeds, it was perfect. If you’ve ever walked with a cane, it was pretty much the same motion. Stab, drop a seed, squeeze the lever a teeny bit, pull it out.
I planted over 2000 seeds in a 24-hour period. Considering how often I need to take breaks because of my back, that is amazing!
Larger seeds like squash, melon, or cucumber worked as-is. For tiny seeds like tomato you might want to encapsulate them. I do that anyway, just because of how windy my garden is. To encapsulate a seed, start with some empty gelcaps. They’re sold for making your own herbal medicines with, and are usually pretty cheap. Put one seed in each capsule, then top it off with some kind of filler. Doesn’t have to be fancy, but choose something that won’t hurt the soil or inhibit the seed. Screened dry dirt is fine, so is sand or ground eggshells. Just anything to give the capsule a little extra weight. Once it’s filled, snap the two halves together and you’re done.
If I had lighter soil, this gadget would probably work with seedlings. For now, I’m just happy it helps with seeds.
I’ve been wanting to do that! I have the chandelier part, just need some solar lights.
You take them apart and super-glue them where the candles/lights would normally go, correct?
I also have all the parts for those fun garden ‘mushrooms’ you make out of old glass bowls and vases but...PUPPIES, LOL!
https://www.hometalk.com/4172149/garden-ideas-glass-art-mushrooms?expand_all_questions=1
Deadly Nightshade? I had a panicked Mom call my Garden Center once, and she described what her toddler had eaten - and a LOT of it!
I don’t know HOW Baby managed to do that - the berries are so bitter! Anyhow, she took her to the ER just to be safe. She called us back later in the day; the kid was fine - the Mom? Not so much, LOL!
Amazingly, that evil weed is related to tomatoes!
I’ve often wondered who was the first person to think things like Pineapples, or Oysters were the least bit edible? LOL!
I’ll check it out and save the link. Thanks.
Ha!
Genius.
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