Joe was out and about early this morning, pulling his little cart full of cuttings from obliging neighbors. He hailed me from across the hedge with ‘Do you want some cuttings?’ and I answered ‘Do you want to harvest some tomatoes?’. Guess we’ve fallen into a form of gardening Esperanto.
I’ve two itty bitty red maters on the kitchen counter but can’t bring myself to eat them. It feels like cannibalism, which is not only silly but impossible. So Joe’s appearance was fortuitous in more ways than one.
He said that these are ‘like caladiums’. Looking at this image, I better go back out and make sure the one on the right is actually planted.
This is a garlic grass like wild onions. Didn’t know such a thing existed, but breaking one certainly smells pungently of garlic. How one would use this in cooking…? (Please disregard the dark rocks.)
I think these are petunias.
And something old… Bougainvillea blooms.
Dark rocks my eye! That’s dogshit!!!!
Well… of course they are!
To use the garlic grass in cooking, rinse off all the dark rocks and then boil some of the garlic grass, strain and then use that “tea” in place of some of the water the recipe calls for.
Um… thanks, Peter. :hotflash:
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Of course you COULD plant the garlic grass away from the dark rocks. You could also just wear a garland of garlic grass in your hair to ward vampires.
Yes, yes I could.
I don’t know how long it will last, its smell is so powerful that’s the only thing I smell out back now…
if your garlic grass is the same as what we have, we use them like chives or green onions.
Thanks, WB! I should have known that y’all would have some! :thumbs:
we got ours on the dead plant clearance rack at lowes and it came back to life and is thriving. it is very, very fragrant!
You have such a green thumb!! :thumbs: