Fear not, fellow human... they will not attempt to demolish us and our civilization, rather they are eager to power us with their nutrients while we continue to run the show! =) But seriously, with luck we'll be able to share in these lovelies more and more... the plants look great and are loaded with protofruits.
You're getting (or, for our more in a hurry members, just got):
- Another pint of delicious, superhealthy milkweed
- cucumbers (mixed varieties)
- onions (remember, be a maximizer and eat all the white and green parts ;)
- radishes (I'm sorry, through a miscommunication that was my fault, Doro might've put a few of the 'just stalking' ones I wanted to taste myself, into baskets. These will all be less sharp / likely to have fibrous flesh than the first round. I basically chucked 2/3 of what we had started this AM, as I inspected the bedbfor signs of a full stalk)
- Swiss chard
- some baskets have a handful of Hungarian mild hot peppers, others have a zucchini squash
- a head each of frilly and spoon lettuce
- (not pictured) a handful of stinging nettle flowered stalk -- super-nutritious. Should be slowly simmered in water or like a tear, steeped below boiling for a while. Use resulting tea or potential base for adding vegetable stock, discard stalks and leaves. IF YOU WANT TO TOUCH THEM, wear gloves (yes I know I should've capitalized the end of that, inatead of rhe beginning). Unless you like the ant-bite-identical sensation of some formic acid setting off some neurons by getting below the epidermis!
Love you all; sorry about the elongated narrative about the radishes. And the nettle. You better have grabbed some of these orphaned tomato plants... remember, bury them all the way to their necks if you want... (2/3 to 3/4 the length of the center stalk.
Farmer Matt and the gang
