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RE: How much Green is too much Green?
These pictures are of the place from where I bought the plants. The last collage is of my place.
These turnips are fresh from my garden though. I have never like this veggie but these home-grown ones tasted delicious.
My mom is also against plastic ones. She told me to replace those when she visited. She says plants thrive in the clay ones. I intend to replace but not right now. I'm also not going to eat anything from the plastic pots.
Carrots in the pot? How many?
One of my favorite winter salads is shredded turnip and carrots, with sunflower seeds, lemon juice and olive oil :)
My pot is 25 cm diameter, I've put something like 20 seeds, the half of them grew. The best part is they grow ok indoors, no bees needed to pollinate, for instance our lemon trees are indoors for the winter and they are blooming at the moment, unfortunately, so no lemons this summer, most probably.
Sounds yumm! I will definitely try this salad recipe.
I didn't know carrots could grow indoors. Our lemon tree is also blooming. I think I have picked around 7-8 kilos of lemons this month.
Olives go well in that salad as well ;)
Yes and I can't grow carrots outdoors, too many moles in the yard, don't know why and I don't want to kill them. Everything I tried to grow undergrounds, just disappears :|
Our two lemon trees are potted, winters are freezing here and we move them out and in each year, also have to trim them small so they are healthy. Not more than 1 meter height. Harvests are 20-30 lemons tops, if at all.
Oh... thankfully, we don't have moles here. 20-30 are enough for a family. We gave a lot of lemons away.
I envy you a bit, I love lemons in all forms... for salads, few drops on a freshly roasted meat, lemonade. Lemon cakes too :)))
This morning it was -2 C when I checked the temperature at 9:00 AM. Our trees are outdoors only between May and November, sometimes we put them indoors in October, with the first frost.
Likewise. If it wasn't too much a trouble, I would have sent you a few baskets. 😀
Temperatures hardly drops below zero where I live.
I bet your summers are very hot then :)
If I have to choose between a boiling-hot summer and freezing winter, I'd definitely go for the winter. Then I can wear warm clothes, put fire in the fireplace, etc, while in the summer I often feel like I have to take my skin off, lmao. I can't walk naked all the time too :D
We have all the four seasons here, summers > +40 C winters some days < -20 C
We have +50 C in summers and winters don't go below zero usually. But there are regions in the country where it goes below -20 in winters.
Just to add that in the years during and past covid, we started to grow much more things in the garden and in the pots and I already could tell if a fruit has grown in a clay or plastic pot. Those carrots are so sweet... Your mom is so right about it, send her my bests! :)
Sure I will.
We have grown all edible stuff directly in the ground of our backyard. Pots are only for decorative purposes. 😀
Most of our neighbors have greenhouses and I guess I'll have to invest in one of those too at some point.
Food in the big stores doesn't get any healthier, unfortunately. Also, more and more expensive each month.
That's a good idea. With age, I'm also getting more and more conscious about what I or my family consumes.
Drinks also included... I can barely find any fizzy drinks in glass bottles, of course, cans are everywhere. Beer in my country is mostly sold in plastic bottles too - 1l, 2l, 2.5l. I hate how it tastes, and the type of the plastic is single usage so I am sure it emits some poisons... The same brand of beer in cans or glass bottles is much better. I don't drink much but I like how wines and beers taste.
Have you tried to roast a chicken with beer, salt and grinded black pepper only? Beer makes its aroma unique ;)
Sometimes, the only liquid I have for weeks is water which also usually comes in plastic cans unless one has direct access to clean water at home. I'm not a fan of beverages
I'm sure it does. I come across a lot of red wine recipes too online. But I don't consume alcohol.
I understand that, my girlfriend rarely drinks alcohol and I hate drinking alone, we also think soft-drinks aren't good for the health, especially those with added sugars.
I love to cook with beer and wine, the alcohol is generally gone just after a few minutes of cooking but it does wonders with some types of meat and vegetables.
I also add 5-10 ml of cognac or rum, or another highly aromatic drink into the cakes I bake :)
I think it's time I have a dedicated cooking account, but strangely, I don't like to take photos while I cook.
I didn't know a pro photographer knows how to cook. You should share your culinary skills sometimes. I also don't like to take photos while cooking though.
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