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Author:  gardnercook [ Thu May 10, 2012 12:52 am ]
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gardnercook wrote:
Darcie wrote:
Ilene, have you a recipe for the ice cream? Sounds divine.

I am growing a bumper crop of dandelions and chickweed so far. Good news is that I eat them. Chickweed is really good in salads.



Darcie
All I do is use a recipe for vanilla ice cream, but steep a cup of verbena leaves in the milk before continuing with the recipe....you can do that with any herb, but I am partial to verbena


Darcie....let me clarify....in a typical vanilla ice cream recipe, you steep the vanilla bean; to make the verbena ice cream, I substitute a cup of verbena leaves, then strain the cream before proceeding with the recipe.
Author:  Darcie [ Thu May 10, 2012 10:51 am ]
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OK, thanks. I do the same thing for basil ice cream, just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything different for this recipe.
Author:  MiGirl [ Thu May 10, 2012 5:01 pm ]
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Just herbs and our small strawberry patch for me this year. We just don't seem to have time for a garden anymore. We used to have a huge one, but our business keeps me to busy to tend to it. I'll go to the farmers market about twice a week.

This will be my first year with no garden, I'm a little sad about that.

Laurie
Author:  auntcy1 [ Sun May 13, 2012 8:27 am ]
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Added the veggies and a few more herbs: parsley, basil, french lavender, cherry tomatoes, eggplant, cukes, jalapenos, and thai dragon chili.

Happy Mothers Day to all!

Nance
Author:  pepperhead212 [ Sun May 13, 2012 8:31 pm ]
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I feel for you, Laurie. I am afraid this will happen to me when I get my shoulder fixed - all depends on when they schedule it. Hopefully the winter!

I got 24 of my peppers in today, my lemongrass, the rest of my eggplants, 4 types of cucumbers, 5 types of cantaloupes, one type of watermelon, plus some stevia. I would have done a bunch more, if it weren't for Mother's Day!

I saw my first tomato flowers today, on the sunsugar - traditionally my earliest plant. They are so early, in fact, that I don't really consider them my "first" ripe tomato. I am waiting to see how early some of the other cherries are.
Author:  Darcie [ Mon May 14, 2012 7:18 am ]
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Dave, all I can say is Wow, and are there any houses close to you for sale? :)
Author:  fitzie [ Mon May 14, 2012 7:39 am ]
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I'd love to put out some chives & parsley. Problem is, when I cut them, they don't come back or at least in the quantity I need. Do I need to plant tons of it to have enough for the summer?
fitzie
Author:  gardnercook [ Mon May 14, 2012 8:08 am ]
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fitzie wrote:
I'd love to put out some chives & parsley. Problem is, when I cut them, they don't come back or at least in the quantity I need. Do I need to plant tons of it to have enough for the summer?
fitzie



Fitzie
Don't know why your chives don't come back, but parsley is a biennial, so I plant every year, because the second iteration is generally thin and bolts early and never grows thick enough
Author:  fitzie [ Mon May 14, 2012 3:42 pm ]
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I mean when I cut them to use in a dish. If I cut a bit of chives, what grows back is just a puny little bit, not nearly as much as I cut. Same with parsley. I'd have to plant an acre of parsley to get me through the summer as it doesn't come back like, say, basil does.

I had a pot of chives that came back every year for about 10-12 years. Then it just quit.
Author:  Kathy's Pete [ Mon May 14, 2012 5:05 pm ]
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The salad's in...
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