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chive talkin'
Fran Farmer wrote:
songbird wrote: yesterday i finished up removing one of the chive patches that was taking up too much space at the bottom of the north garden. the smell of the roots and dirt make me rather sick to my stomach so i was very glad to be done. :-)) IMO, you can never have too many chives. I use them so often in the kitchen. that's part of it, that we rarely actually even use them. we sure don't need 100sq ft of them. besides the two main patches (now down to one) we also have them scattered around growing in other locations. most of the clumps of roots were buried upside down under a layer of dried stuff or whatever paper scraps i had on hand and then six to eight inches of dirt. they will likely never be able to come up through that and the worms will turn them into fertilizer in time. yesterday a few piles ran out of dried stuff to use so i may see some of those again this season. probably will plant extra beans/peas on top of them because it is in an unfenced garden. Members of the allium family are reputed to stunt peas and beans so it'd be interesting to know if that same reputed impact applies to planting on top of interred alliums. hmm, these are buried quite deeply below the root zone in most of the area. i can always put beets in the shallower spots (where i didn't have enough stuff to cover). otherwise, i didn't notice any trouble in my previous years growing of beans on top of similar piles of chive sod. .... the other project finished up the other day was getting the back spiral garden/green manure patch weeded and to dig out all of the garlic in there that i could find. it is much easier to do this before the alfalfa and birdsfoot trefoil gets tall. this also gave me a good chance to observe the quality of the soil and to see how the late summer cover crops of buckwheat and turnips had fared. considering the condition of the soil when i started several years ago it is coming along well. :-)) Isn't it a great joy to notice those sorts of improvements? Non-gardeners never seem to understand why that gives gardeners such a thrill. i consider it a lifelong process which i hope will go another twenty or thirty years. each year certain things get easier too. i'm now going to be adding a mix of other plants into that patch in areas so that it can start being an alternate and back up food source. turnips, beets, beans, peas, fennel, bak choi, rutabagas, ..., I've forgotten what the rest of the English speaking world calls them. Is it turnips?????? swedes, they are a type of turnip, but not the same as the purple topped globe turnips which are very common. these are pale yellow inside and turn yellow/orange more when cooked. they have a fairly mild flavor to me. turnips i like to fry up in the pan in a little olive oil until they get a little brown on the outside. to me much better than potatoes... .... the killdeer are out there running around in tribes (mating season i suspect). funny... I think I'll go and have a rest after reading of all your busyness. You've made me feel quite weary :-)) wasn't too bad as it was stretched over the past few weeks. i left out some of the great blunders and adventures in sillyness. i did find some diakon radish seeds and some dill, also restocked the buckwheat and turnip seed supplies. the earliest tulips are starting to show up. that's about when it is the time to start getting more peas in the ground. still might get some frosts here or there but the worst of the hard freezes should be over. at least i sure hope they are. oh, and the apple seeds i planted last fall seemed to have sprouted. i'll have plenty of scrub apple trees or root stock for grafting by the looks of it. all experimental as with the rabbits and deer around here i'm not sure i'll ever see a fruit tree make it very far. if i do it will because the thing has armor and fences around it. time to check the weather radar and see if i'll get out to plant anything or just keep on goofing around today. songbird |
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chive talkin'
songbird wrote:
I've forgotten what the rest of the English speaking world calls them. Is it turnips?????? swedes, they are a type of turnip, but not the same as the purple topped globe turnips which are very common. these are pale yellow inside and turn yellow/orange more when cooked. they have a fairly mild flavor to me. turnips i like to fry up in the pan in a little olive oil until they get a little brown on the outside. to me much better than potatoes... This is where common names don't travel very well. I think we are talking about two different but related plants. The thing you buy in the supermarket here called a 'swede' is roundish, tapering towards the root, purplish skin on top and cream below with off-white flesh that stays dirty-white when cooked. The flavour is quite strong and to my taste unpleasant. I am guessing you call this a turnip and the yellow/orange one rutabaga? I haven't seen the yellow/orange one here. D |
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"David Hare-Scott" writes: songbird wrote: I've forgotten what the rest of the English speaking world calls them. Is it turnips?????? swedes, they are a type of turnip, but not the same as the purple topped globe turnips which are very common. these are pale yellow inside and turn yellow/orange more when cooked. they have a fairly mild flavor to me. turnips i like to fry up in the pan in a little olive oil until they get a little brown on the outside. to me much better than potatoes... This is where common names don't travel very well. I think we are talking about two different but related plants. Perhaps this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutabaga would be useful in the discussion. To muddy the language waters, I grew up (in the USA) with my mother calling these things (boiled and mashed) "turnips." I don't care much for rutabegas, but I like turnips in moderation. The thing you buy in the supermarket here called a 'swede' is roundish, tapering towards the root, purplish skin on top and cream below with off-white flesh that stays dirty-white when cooked. The flavour is quite strong and to my taste unpleasant. I am guessing you call this a turnip and the yellow/orange one rutabaga? I haven't seen the yellow/orange one here. D -- Drew Lawson Some men's dreams for others turn to nightmares. I never would have thought this in my wildest dreams. |
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chive talkin'
David Hare-Scott wrote:
songbird wrote: Farm1 asked: .... I've forgotten what the rest of the English speaking world calls them. Is it turnips?????? swedes, they are a type of turnip, but not the same as the purple topped globe turnips which are very common. these are pale yellow inside and turn yellow/orange more when cooked. they have a fairly mild flavor to me. turnips i like to fry up in the pan in a little olive oil until they get a little brown on the outside. to me much better than potatoes... This is where common names don't travel very well. I think we are talking about two different but related plants. The thing you buy in the supermarket here called a 'swede' is roundish, tapering towards the root, purplish skin on top and cream below with off-white flesh that stays dirty-white when cooked. The flavour is quite strong and to my taste unpleasant. I am guessing you call this a turnip and the yellow/orange one rutabaga? I haven't seen the yellow/orange one here. yes, you've got it, the usage i am famiar with comes from the UP of Michigan where they have pasties (a meat pie with minced onion, carrot, rutabaga, potato) and that was for the copper miners that were brought from overseas to work in the mines. supposedly of Cornish derivation, but the plants go back much further. the wiki seems to cover it well (along with the clarification on usage subtopic) and reflects what i've generally known. as usual, English borrows heavily from other languages as in i liked the comment about root bags from Swedish. neeps is a fun word. too many good pictures of food/recipes in those pages, made me hungry and it was time to sleep, with a rumbly stomach. songbird |
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