Garden stuff
Jun. 12th, 2007 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenWe have a neighbor down the street who's a little.... odd. I don't know the details, and many of the neighbors don't speak to her because she's a bit... odd. She's also a gardener however, so from time to time we've had conversations about plants. One time was last month, and I was in the middle of trying to deal with the overabundance of lettuces and such. So, she became a recipient of several baby lettuce, although the transplants haven't done as well as the wild ones... still, she's a pretty good gardener, so I'm sure they'll have taken and be doing all right, just behind the ones I didn't move. I gave her one of my bunches of grape hyacinths too, for next spring....
Anyway, the other day she comes over with some strawberries and cuttings from her herb garden :) Her strawberry plants are mature, having been in the ground for a few years. (Ours are just starting to have a few berries; the first ones the birds ate, but we've managed to pick a few, some days after she brought hers over.) My self-seeded lettuce is doing a bit too well for two people, so I picked a bunch of leaves for her to take home. Unexpected treasures.
Had a big green salad last night, and today made some tuna salad sandwiches for lunch and threw in a couple of leaves (torn up first, of course - leaf lettuce isn't breakable like iceberg). The tuna's from before we started the 90%R thing.... still haven't decided if we'll get more or not this year, as it isn't like we eat tuna very often anyway. Just one of those things I grew up with, so I buy it... I tend to buy things in large quantities when I'm able, so I've been happily putting off some of my food decisions until later in the year.
Tonight I think will be pork stir fry, with the zuchini and yellow squash we got from the farmers market, and maybe water chestnuts. Hm. And some rice on the side maybe.
Anyway, the other day she comes over with some strawberries and cuttings from her herb garden :) Her strawberry plants are mature, having been in the ground for a few years. (Ours are just starting to have a few berries; the first ones the birds ate, but we've managed to pick a few, some days after she brought hers over.) My self-seeded lettuce is doing a bit too well for two people, so I picked a bunch of leaves for her to take home. Unexpected treasures.
Had a big green salad last night, and today made some tuna salad sandwiches for lunch and threw in a couple of leaves (torn up first, of course - leaf lettuce isn't breakable like iceberg). The tuna's from before we started the 90%R thing.... still haven't decided if we'll get more or not this year, as it isn't like we eat tuna very often anyway. Just one of those things I grew up with, so I buy it... I tend to buy things in large quantities when I'm able, so I've been happily putting off some of my food decisions until later in the year.
Tonight I think will be pork stir fry, with the zuchini and yellow squash we got from the farmers market, and maybe water chestnuts. Hm. And some rice on the side maybe.
