Busy series of days. Don’t forget the Howard County Farmer’s Markets are open this week. Wednesday through Sunday.
I don’t know which one(s) I will get to visit, as I have to see what is in the CSA Box tomorrow. We got our tentative list. Twelve items!! At least, unless there is a typo and we aren’t getting scallions twice. We have gotten duplicates in the past, when items are plentiful from multiple sources. Since there are more than sixty farms in our CSA coop, we get similar items from individual sources.
As for the foraging, slowly I am finding single spears of asparagus out under the crepe myrtle. I now have four. By the weekend, two more and then maybe asparagus risotto will find its way on the menu.
The pole beans are in. The cukes go in later today, as they were all getting really leggy hanging around inside with the tomato plants. The tomatoes I will plant Saturday or Sunday. We may get one or two cool evenings and I want them to wait a few more days.
As for harvesting, the lettuces and greens are still going nuts. Dinner tonight will include arugula and microgreens from the boxes I have outside in a bunny resistant arrangement.
Arugula – spicy, peppery and so good in salads.
Greens by the back door, protected from strong sun will go all summer this way.
As for the markets, pick up some herbs and put in a pot or two. Great to snip fresh herbs on your grilled dinners.
Going full bore, and so good to use. Notice the cover in the background protecting the basil overnight. It is doing well, even though planted a little early. Sage, rosemary, lavender, tarragon, marjoram, thyme and mint. Really easy to grow.
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I wonder what asparagus looks like if you let it bloom? Not that I’m suggesting that you should sacrifice even one luscious stalk to find out…..just wonderin’
The first year we lived here, it did go to seed because we didn’t know it was out there. As it grows, the tips will put out long wispy fronds. They are distinctive, so if you see them on the roadside, you know there is wild asparagus there.
Some people keep maps of where they are, on roads near them and harvest asparagus every spring.
Whole different world there….