Today I went out to try and harvet more dandilion flowers for the wine but alas I got about five individual flowers compared to the buckets full I was bringing in a few weeks ago - I am not worried as I know that there will be more flowers shortly its just that they plants all currently have 'clocks' but these will soon go and the yellow will be back.
So instead I harvested some dandilion leaves to dry for the tea and as a seasoning - I havent picked anywhere near enough but it is a start and I have to be careful not to pick more than I can process anyway - as the leaves all need washing etc....
I was going to pick some Cow Pasley or wild chervil but then discovered that I wasnt happy with identifying it - though I am definate that I can tell it from Hemlock and fools parsley it turns out that there are several other similar plants which are all mildly poisonous! So that project has been put on the side until I can ask an expert 🙁
Still I got out the peat pots and seed trays and planted sweetcorn, cualiflower, courgettes and lemon coriander.
Our cherry tomartoes are about ready to go in the ground though we are going to have to do some prep for that first! On the plus side we found out that the 'weeds' that appeared to have taken over the veggy patch are acyually potatoes and Fat Hen both of which are edible so we are calling them a crop instead!
Becca Radishes are mainly a salad thing.
All eats them by themselves but they can have a strong peppery taste so I would advise that you get some nice greens for a salad, like rocket, lettice maybe some cuccumber and peppers to eat with them.
You should wash them then 'top and tail' them - this means you cut off the spindle hair-like root bit and the bit where the leaves attach. Then you can leave whole or slice or if you are feeling really adventurous then you can cut a zing zag around the 'equator' of the radish creating to 'flowers' from the radish - my dad used to do this for my lunch all the time - places on a slice of cucumber it becomes a water lilly!
Dads other 'peice-de-la-resistonce' is where you slice half way into the radish and then 'wrap' the knife around it in a spiral as you go. Then place the radish which should still appear whole, into a glass of water where a) it will end up with amilder taste and b) the radish will open up into a lovely spiral.
Do not top and tail until just before eating as they can shrivel not being shop bough ones injected with water!
Hope that was helpful
I think the Japanese may do lots of other things with radishes but then they have lots of types of radish!
They are here at last!
Little baby has cut her top two front teeth, as one of our chairs found out!
She'll be able to bite things properlly now!
Yesturday me and Al put in hooks to hang Jeans alpherabet fairy lights along the main bean in her room! They look so cool especially as we fitted the whole alphabet on one side!
We also put up the irredescent, purple, butterfly bead curtain in her window - this was the curtain we had at the top of the stairs in the Essex flat - of course we had to trim the bottom but it looks really cool. We also put up her Trum (erm something like that German for dream or something?) Spiral which is rainbow coloured and twists round - she loves it. Whilst we were at it we also put up the plastic irredescant spirals that Clair (The one with funky nails) got me last year for my birthday - they too are in Jeans window along with the Taz that Mark, Simon and Fraser (the Physicists) won me at a Summer Ball at IC 🙂
Oh and last but not least we put up on of those tuby net things - like lots of compartments that hand down from the ceiling - into which we have been stuffing her cuddlies!
Her room is almost there now - we are quite proud of ourselves 🙂
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Gardening | sarah | 
Tue 23rd May 2006 9:56 pm | 
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