As I walked back from getting the chicks on pasture, I looked over the fence in the Big garden to see if the garlic had started scapes yet. It sure has, some are nearly 12” long. I’ll be making pesto within a week.
The Rugosa rose is right next to the Big garden and I noticed there were a good many flowers now. So I picked them to dehydrate.
There were only enough for 3 trays, so I cut a bunch of yarrow to fill the dehydrator.
That took care of 1 dehydrator but I decided I should really be running both of them.
I thought plantain leaves would be easy and quick.
You may remember last year my plantain leaves were as big as my foot…..
Well, I was astounded to discover this year’s, from the same plants that were transplanted into the Big garden, are easily twice as large.
And there weren’t just a couple of them. I cut these from just 4 plants of the 10+ I moved.
These Excalibur trays are 14” square….. Amazing what balanced soil will do….
Wednesday I start weeding and mulching in the Big garden, preparing for transplanting gardens.
Thank you for the good article and illustrations. It made me want to have an organic vegetable garden to cook. It would be very happy. Who have eaten the vegetables we plant.ขอบคุณสำหรับบทความดี และภาพประกอบ มันทำให้ฉันอยากมีสวนผักออแกนิคไว้ทำอาหาร มันคงจะมีความสุขมาก ที่ได้กินผักที่เราปลูก
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Wow, look at that plantain! Ours is the narrow leaf type that's not much bigger than a finger. I've got seeds for varigated plantain that I somehow didn't plant. Maybe I should do that...
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My chickens did not like narrow leaf. I wild harvested it the first year I did herbs for layers. The wild wide leaf was very small and it was hard to find enough, plus it was really gritty. So that's when I started growing it in the garden. These are grown from the wild harvested seed in my yard...
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That's excellent! Like you said, it's amazing what good soil can do!
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Wow - those are some massive plantain leaves!! @naturalmedicine community had a plantain challenge not so log ago and a whole slew of posts with ideas for using plantain - you might find them of interest.
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