it's starting to pay off

[piranha]

harvest time fresh from the garden: cucumbers, banana pepper, borage, french sorrel, garlic chives, nasturtium leaves and flower, and the very first cherry tomatoes. *yum*.

Comments

[velochicdunord.livejournal.com]

How do you use borage? I grew it for many years, but never knew how to consume it.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i don't do anything more fancy with it than chop it up and use it in salads and hessian green sauce. i really like the taste -- tart and cucumberish, very fresh. the flowers are edible as well; they're sweet.

you can do other things with it; add it to soups or stews (very late), and there are medicinal uses. i don't do any of these things because it's a summer herb for me; it doesn't dry real well, and i don't keep a plant alive during the winter.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Gee, and here I thought it was only supposed to be good for herbal tea. My mom grew some a long time ago. I don't remember what she did with it.

[ianmcdonald.livejournal.com]

Borage! Just the job for a Pimms Number 1 Cup!

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i had to look that up. :) mmh -- must try that some time.

Oh, coolness

[pperiwinkle.livejournal.com]

I love seeing what other people have in their garden.

Are those really cheery tomatoes? They look small enough to be current tomatoes, which I prefer to most cherry tomatoes.

I'm pretty much at the end of my tomato season. I'll get a couple more weeks of large ones, and a few more beyond that of the current tomatoes. I'm at war with the stink bugs, too!

Here's what I picked today: http://home.mindspring.com/~pamrudd/id2.html

Re: Oh, coolness

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i'm putting together a photo walk through my garden, because nex0s wanted to see it; should be done in a couple of days.

they're definitely cherry tomatoes; just not very large exemplars of the type -- the soil in which i'm growing them isn't very good, and these are the very first ones.

i've never grown currant tomatoes (never even seen them on offer anywhere here), but i am growing grape tomatoes for the second year, and they're bearing tremendously. pretty cool for mediocre soil. the tomato season is just starting for me; i was as usual a little late in planting them, and they're not in an ideal spot.

got a really low incidence of pests this year -- yay.

oh, that basket looks wonderful! what a bounty!