So out in the garden I pulled up some of the crabgrass I'm at war with. I

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try to keep it all organic, so that is one of my main methods for control of that one...

...and accidentally pulled up a few young garlic. Oops. So I cut a sprig of thyme, and then dug up a few green onions that had overwintered under some mulch in the bed. Looking...looking...yes.

Kale raab. Sounds fancy, it's just the flower pods that broccoli and cabbage and others, sitting in the garden and putting out leaves in the winter, send up before they seed and die in the Spring. Yellow flowers, many buds that aren't open yet, tasty and edible. I took them from the top of one plant, will get more, will leave one so it seeds, and we begin again.

And I pulled some chive stems too. Purple flowers and their stems are edible as well.

Inside they got cleaned and chopped and the green onions being slightly larger pieces go into some hot olive oil (and a little yogurt margarine) first, to brown a little. Then the other stuff from above that I chopped smaller, cooks 3 or 4 mins and then...

Forgot to mention. Got a dozen fresh chicken eggs from the plant lady down the road. So I scrambled 4 of those and mixed in just a little sour cream.

Poured them on top of the hot veggies and just started spooning everything toward the middle. The steam puffed the eggs up nicely, and the dogs helped me. They get separate ones, without onions, and don't get Sriracha Sauce either. Poor dogs.

Where's my coffee...

[Warpy]

1. Back in New England, the compost pile yielded a bumper crop

of spaghetti squash one year. Here in NM, in our incredible drought, veggie peelings and tea leaves just dry up and blow away. I've given up on my yard, even crabgrass doesn't grow unless it's between slabs of pavement.

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2. When we first arrived in Eastern WA a few years ago we planted tomatoes and peppers before June 1.

We were from Oklahoma - what did we know about short summers?

(We used to vacation in New Mexico - about the closest mountains, and locals were pointing out the effects of the lack of rain then.)

It froze on May 30 or 31st, I think, and they all fell over black and went into the compost pile, then proceeded to bounce back and give us some of the best tomatoes we'd had in years. That was back when it was first getting started, now is big enough to feed the other beds.

But between the replacements we got from the plant lady and those, we looked like the Pez dispenser of tomatoes. Wife would take bagfuls on the bus to give out at school, and sometimes to people on the bus. It was great

[eridani]

5. At least in eastern WA tomatoes are feasible if you protect them early

Western WA? Fuggedaboutit! On Sept 1, there are green nodules that you have to put on a windowsill to (maybe) ripen.

[pinto]

3. You might lhie this, as well - kohlrabi. Another bressica. Grown year 'round in my area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlrabi

[jtuck004]

4. Thank you. I might have to try that. n/t