I hope your June is going well! Summer is holding off up here in BC Canada, everything is green, and I'm taking advantage of the opportunity to produce as much food and medicine as possible!
That's a closeup of potato flower. They're small, simple, and usually white or pink. I'm not really sure what their purpose is, since potatoes reproduce through their tubers (roots). If you know, tell me in a comment. Until then, we'll just enjoy this delicate little mystery.
The main potato patch. Notice a few missing spots - we had a frost dieoff in April and lost some of the plants that had come up early. These are the stragglers, which had not yet reached the surface to be frozen by a late winter blast.
My Grampa's ancestors came from Ireland and Prince Edward Island, two places known for their potatoes, explaining my liking for them. I love them almost every way you can prepare them! What's not to enjoy? They're delicious, relatively easy to grow and cook, and full of nutrition.
Down the side of the house used to be rocks and weeds. Now, thanks to a few afternoons of work, it's another potato patch! And there are climbing peas along the sides and back, which will grow up in that chain link. It's mostly shady here, but peas and potatoes are okay with that.
Not that good food isn't medicine in itself, but the next couple photographs are really about medicine! And now that I've typed that, I have to point out that the cannabis plant is also an excellent source of food, as the delicious seeds (aka "hemp hearts") contain complete protein and essential omega fats.
These 2 seedlings are recovering from recently being topped a second time, so theoretically they will now have 4 points of new growth. Hopefully this encourages them to grow outward a little, and not just straight up. They will be going into the main garden in about 6 weeks, when the weather gets hot.
Ultimately, I hope to harvest, dry, and cure the flowers, then extract pure cannabis oil to be used medicinally.
The rosebush is green and healthy this year. Hopefully we'll get blooms.
Orache! Also known as mountain spinach. This particular orache is the red orache.
It was grown for thousands of years as a delicious and nutritious leafy vegetable, usually used fresh (salads, sandwiches, wraps, etc). It grows well in most conditions, and tolerates heat better than real spinach does. I've already tasted a couple leaves, and it's quite good. Very appealing colours!
The peas are flowering! Not much more to say, other than I'm excited to start eating fresh food right off the vine. I plan to steam and mash a bunch of them for my 4 month old daughter, as some of her first solid food.
Just an onion plant, doing well in the spring weather. The greens are tasty, and keep regrowing when cut. I imagine there's a big onion bulb under there. Maybe I'll harvest it in the summer. For now, it's kind of aesthetic... for an onion.
A quintessential spring flower, the lilac! Very pretty to look at, and to smell. I have some pink and some white. They'll be finished up and gone in another week.
And since everybody's doing it, here's a shot of my lunch! It's on-theme with my post, though, because it involves some fresh green kohlrabi sprouts. Yum!
Hummus, fresh (greenhouse) tomato, lettuce, mayo, dairy-free cheese, sprouts, cucumber, salt, and pepper, on a cassava flour tortilla. We intend to do wraps all summer - great lunch during hot weather - and stuff them increasingly with foods from the local farmers market... and our back yard.
I hope you've been enjoying your spring - or fall, if you're reading this from down under!
Grow in peace.
DRutter
Short and growing outward, I know how you feel Girls, that was me last summer, haha! That mountain spinach was so good! It was like a tender spinach and red leaf lettuce cross-over. We should put that in our next wraps, along with those sprouts from market mmm so damn good! Then again, anything is good with hummus mwahaha. We should put those green onions in some potato salad. It's too bad lilac season is over, they're gorgeous, but I enjoyed it while it lasted...made bike rides extra nice.
Potatoes actually produce a fruit. It is a small green cherry tomato like fruit with seeds. They are toxic so don't eat them. Two years ago I harvested the seeds from them but I was unable to get them to germinate. Hopefully I can try again this year.
That's cool, thanks for the info. I've never noticed the fruits/seeds but I'll watch more closely this year.
Looks like a delicious vegetarian lunch. Maybe the potato flowers are just there for their beauty. God or the Universe tends to do that a lot.
It's a cute furry little flower. Our 2-year-old is starting to appreciate flowers. Sometimes we pass by unkempt yards and he points enthusiastically and yells "dandelions!" Or he'll want to pick flowers from people's yards and get upset when he can't. "Maybe pick that purple flower, mummy", he'll say.
I let my front yard fill up with natural purple violets this summer. It looks like our house is planted in a garden. Probably drives my neighbors crazy…. But I think it looks great.
That lunch looks awesome! 🤤 So does the mountain spinach!🌱
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Looking good, a bit like @junglegirl's hilltribe!