Over the weekend I harvested more of our winter turnips and some green onions. \u00a0These bunching onions don\u2019t produce bulbs, just the greens which I snip off for use in cooking as we need them. \u00a0They survived the winter well.\u00a0\u00a0My turnips and spinach did well also. \u00a0Most everything else did not survive the bitter cold snap (temps down to minus 1\u00b0).<\/p>\n
Marie used the turnips and some of the onions this evening in a stir-fry dish that used cubed ham, diced turnips (pre boiled), some coleslaw mix (shredded cabbage, and carrots) and sliced apple all cooked together. \u00a0Then the chopped green onion was sprinkled over the top at serving time. \u00a0She served that with cheddar cheese biscuits. \u00a0It was quite delicious!<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve enjoyed warm days (high 60s) for the past several days so I\u2019ve gotten out into the yard and garden to get started preparing for planting the summer garden.<\/p>\n
I use raised bed garden boxes because of the steep slope of our yard. \u00a0Crop rotation requires some reconfiguring these boxes as I move crops around. \u00a0Potatoes need deep soil, so I add a riser for added depth. \u00a0Planting potatoes in a different box each year means removing a lot of the soil from last year\u2019s box and moving the riser to the potato box for this year. I can\u2019t use the soil I removed (that would defeat rotation) so I must move the soil from a non-nightshade box last year to the potato box and put the excess potato soil from last year into the now empty non-nightshade box. \u00a0It\u2019s sort of like a big slider puzzle. \u00a0Fortunately I\u2019ve always been really good at slider puzzles!<\/p>\n
Over the weekend I harvested more of our winter turnips and some green onions. These bunching onions don’t produce bulbs, just the greens which I snip off for use in cooking as we need them. They survived the winter well. My turnips and spinach did well also. Most everything else did not survive the bitter cold … Continue reading “Winding Down Winter”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-6929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","tag-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21506,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions\/21506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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