For the first time this year, I went out in the garden with my bowl and scissors and picked greens to go in our dinner salad! Yay!! I love it!
The lettuce, spinach and swiss chard are baby lettuce sized now, so I can start thinning them by picking. Put them in a spring greens salads with some violet leaves and flowers and some anise hyssop leaves. Yum!
Happy Spring!
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Dandelion flowers (yellow middle part only) and tender baby dandelion leaves, baby plantain leaves, greenbriar shoots, garlic mustard flowers (honey-sweet fragrance, leaves are garlicky for an interesting flavor mix), sheep sorrel leaves (lemony sour).... Do you have Ostrich Fern fiddleheads? -- quick blanch in salted water.
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Don't have calendula or ostrich ferns (can't grow everything on my 1/3 acre, though I make a valiant stab at it!), but I certainly have dandelions, garlic mustard, and ox-eye daisies (not blooming yet, but the leaves). It's a good reminder that the garlic mustard is actually good for something! I was pulling it as we walked the trails at the nature sanctuary.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Mainly, I just love being able to go out and pick something for dinner!
Thanks for the suggestions!
Mainly, I just love being able to go out and pick something for dinner!
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And I juiced a nice bunch of chickweed the other day. For some reason they grow just in my blueberry pots, so I make sure not to pick all at once, and they grow so nicely, and have much more nutrition than our tamed greens. Sometimes I worry though, that they might be robbing nutrition from my blueberries - what do you think?