Comments on: Vegi Garden Flowers

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:58:30 +0000

We don’t get many weeds in the vegi garden anymore, so most of what comes up is volunteers of what we might want, but then I do spend a bit of time thinning and moving the volunteers of the plants that we do want. It helps if I’ve grown a plant from seed; then I’m able to recognize the seedling. And sometimes I accidentally weed out plants I meant to keep.

We like miner’s lettuce mixed into salads, usually as about one fourth of the greens. One third miner’s lettuce, one third lettuce, one third mache with a bit of mustard green thrown in is a favorite. Add some sunflower seeds and a tahini-based salad dressing or a vinaigrette, and you have our standard side salad, mmm…

By: Kristen

Kristen — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:45:38 +0000

I have never tasted minor’s lettuce before. Do you have any recipe’s I could try?

By: Town Mouse

Town Mouse — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:50:57 +0000

Great photos! So, how do you tell what’s a weed when it all starts?

By: wiseacre

wiseacre — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:37:26 +0000

Whoot Wooly!
Woolly thyme is one of my favorites. It goes well with rock, takes foot traffic in walkway cracks (nice moss substitute) and produces a carpet of blooms where allowed to spread out in a mat.

No need to lecture ya on how a ‘mixed’ garden is best

By: keewee

keewee — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:24:20 +0000

That is a good idea placing a potted plant in the bare spaces, to keep kitty from using it as a bathroom.

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:00:44 +0000

Thanks. We like to think so.
I think I found the TulpsintheWoods miner’s lettuce post through your blogroll, so thanks for that, too.