Friday, April 16, 2010

See, I Can Listen

I'm a good listener!
I followed advice and re-potted the broccoli, rabe and leeks (on the bottom shelf).  One of the bloggers I read, A Posse Ad Esse, showed tomatoes in plastic cups, so I tried it for half of the rabe and broccoli (yes, I punched holes in the bottoms).  On the top shelf are the tomatoes, and I planted basil, lots of basil, and tarragon and sage.  I want lots and lots of basil.  I don't think there's such a thing as too much basil.

I think this red stuff is horseradish coming up.  I'm not sure if the leaf is from the same plant or not.  Last spring I knew exactly zero about this area in front of the house, so like a genius I started digging it all up to plant herbs.  I'm an idiot.  I dug up what I now know are peonies, among other good things.  Anyhow - in my brilliant digging campaign, I dug up a few roots that I thought might be horseradish and ... let them dry out.  Yeah - idiot.  I won't make that mistake this year!  I'm not going to let the horseradish get away from me this time!

7 comments:

  1. I'm going to guess that the leaf belongs to your sunflowery-Rudbeckia-coneflower sort of plant you had last year. Could the red stuff be peonies? I see horseradish growing across my alley (have never done anything with it, yet) and it always seems green. I'll go check tomorrow when it's light.

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  2. You ARE a good girl! And you shall be given two Gold Stars for going to the trouble of repotting. I promise your happy veggies will repay you.

    P.S. Like Linda, I wondered if the red sprouties could be peonies.

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  3. Like the girls have already said, the red stuff is peonies. Maybe I need to come over and have a plant identify day? (Subtle, aren't I?)

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  4. Basil IS heavenly, we plant lots of it too.

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  5. Oh. Hm. OK, peonies are good. I even optimistically tasted the leaves!

    Melanie - Sue's already wangled an invite to dinner - sometime after work, since the weekends are beginning to fill up. Would that work after it stops snowing (which it is doing now)? Peonies - hah! I wonder if I even have horseradish at all!

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  6. You inspired me, I got some chickens. It's all new to me but the other day I packed up the kids and went to the feed store and got 4, on my way home I thought..."what did I just do?" I'm excited!

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  7. Hey Christine - that's great news! I hear that chickens are the "gateway drug" to larger animals, because they're so easy to take care of. Hope you enjoy yours!

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