Friday Five

[learnteach]

1. Pickles are good. Pressure cooker? Good. Fondue? Fabulous. Fresh Farmer's Market Feed? Fantastic! I seem to have slipped into an earlier mode of food. Now, to learn how to can, to work on my sundrying, to learn how to salt meat.

2. The computer can suck my good habits right away. I need to get away from this thing. So what am I doing?...

3. Companion planting, I want to learn more about it. Anybody out there doing much of it? And why did the tulips fail again?

4. Best Gig ever: Substitute teaching...on a martial arts beach campout. No, really!

5. Still haven't had a chance to teach my demo lesson. Might be a fail. Ah well!

6. This California Election? Why are we wasting the money?

Comments

Pickles in the pressure cooker!?

[martianfencer.livejournal.com]

I plant radishes, lettuce, and carrots together. The radishes come up right away and get et, then the lettuce gets big and gets et before the carrots need much space.

I also plant lettuce and cilantro between my tomatoes, so they will stay cool in the shade.

I would do the corn/squash/beans thing except that my growing season is so short.

I'm having my best tulip year ever. In the past I've had problems with critters eating the bulbs. Maybe my cats are finally paying their rent.

People around here gape in astonishment when I tell them about Californians digging up their perennials to put in the freezer for a few weeks every year.