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Re: My Bountiful Garden (picture thanks to Clo's help with "tinypic"!)

By: fizzy in ROUND | Recommend this post (0)
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Thanks for the suggestions!!!

I grew corn last year and I am embarrassed to admit I haven't gotten around to planting them this year. I planted potatoes but my elbow has been injured and that, I think more than anything else, delayed my completing my planting projects.

But I never thought of popping corn!!! Great point and idea!

And cattails!! Wow!!!! I had heard of that but forgot it . I have been doing some research on what to plant in the pond. I did just plant gunera there and had thought of lotus (both edible) but cattail totally slipped by me. I will get on that!

Lots of bamboo already. Not as much as there WAS (i did a lot of clearing) but more than enough! I DO have almonds planted..as well as the well walnuts, heartnuts, hazelnuts (filberts), pecans, chestnuts, ...and more. And then there are the well known fruit trees....peaches, pears, apples, cherries, oranges, lemons, mulberry, plums, Russian olives, autumn olives, goumi,(the last three are nitro fixers and not olives), olives, figs, loquat, persimmon, avocado, apricots, grapes, Pomegranates, and ...well I know I missing probably another ten.

And the vines and bushes...kiwi, appleberry, currants, gooseberry, jostaberry, raspberry, boysenberry, strawberry, elderberry, etc.


Man....and I bet I am missing another 10...20 maybe more of the more exotic ones (e.g., siberian pea shrub, yellowtail tree (leaves can be eaten as a lettuce). I have a LOT LOT LOT of exotic things ... snowberry.... damn...what is that thing called??...

Well, anyway, I am quite proud of the numerous perennial edibles I have growing, many of which aren't supposed to grow here but seem to be doing okay or better. kinnineck, evergreen flowering dogwood (yeah...edible fruit), evergreen eleganius, quince...guava...(got it!!)...

Well, you get the idea!
I'm trying all sorts of things I've never even HEARD of before ...much less tasted or seen grown.

I haven't tried banana yet. or coffee :->



I have come to realize that men are not born to be free. Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men. -Napoleon


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Re: My Bountiful Garden (picture thanks to Clo's help with "tinypic"!)
By: Decomposed in ROUND
Wed, 29 Jun 11 4:41 AM 		Msg. 33671 of 45510

When I was a kid, I used to raid an abandoned almond orchard and, over the course of a few days, pretty much deplete it. One thing I learned: Grow some bamboo if you want to harvest nuts. There's nothing better for knocking them out of your trees.

You'd better have plenty of tarps, too, for catching the nuts.

Are you growing corn? It's one of the easiest starches to grow. And don't forget popcorn - which you can easily store long-term and eat whenever the starch cravings threaten to overwhelm.

And what about cattails? They're easy to grow if you have a boggy area. Except for the leaves, the entire plant is edible - at different times of the year. But the fuzzy part (the head) has to be eaten when it's still green, long before it's gone fuzzy . . . fizzy. LOL! In California, the edible period on cattail heads has already come and gone. You'd have gotten your starch by now. Cattails do taste starchy, though I'm not sure WHAT food group they actually fall into.

Cook cattail heads when they're very young, fried in butter or olive oil, or barbecued. You'll have to look online for ways to cook the rest of the plant.

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