Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related
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This weekend I dug 1/2 of my potatoes and pulled 1/2 of my onions. They both turned out really good. I’ve been enjoying my carrots and cucumbers but the problem is now the lettuce and spinach is burned up. I guess you can’t have it all. Good luck to the rest of you gardeners.

cdavis I agree, that’s a nice harvest.
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wdaly thanks. I’ll harvest the other half this weekend.
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Just curious. I have an abundance of purslane taking over my garden. Have research the nutritional value of this plant so finally decided to try it. Had anyone else eaten this weed? I tried two ways. 1) sauteed with some garlic and soy sauce, and 2) sauteed with some onion, garlic, tomato sauce and then simmered with rice. Both were pretty good.

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Just curious. I have an abundance of purslane taking over my garden. Have research the nutritional value of this plant so finally decided to try it. Had anyone else eaten this weed? I tried two ways. 1) sauteed with some garlic and soy sauce, and 2) sauteed with some onion, garlic, tomato sauce and then simmered with rice. Both were pretty good.

wdaly I usually give mine a good dose of 2-4D
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Tex_77 I gave up trying to control it anyway but pulling. If you till or hoe it, each plant becomes 100 plants. Figured what the Heck. Might as well try eating it. University of Nebraska Extension did a spot on it and said it’s pretty high in nutrition. It didn’t kill me over night so I guess that’s good.
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Tex_77 I gave up trying to control it anyway but pulling. If you till or hoe it, each plant becomes 100 plants. Figured what the Heck. Might as well try eating it. University of Nebraska Extension did a spot on it and said it’s pretty high in nutrition. It didn’t kill me over night so I guess that’s good.
wdaly I have a lot of that but didnt know what it was. I will have to look in to it.
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Just curious. I have an abundance of purslane taking over my garden. Have research the nutritional value of this plant so finally decided to try it. Had anyone else eaten this weed? I tried two ways. 1) sauteed with some garlic and soy sauce, and 2) sauteed with some onion, garlic, tomato sauce and then simmered with rice. Both were pretty good.

wdaly Ah NO!!! It’s not that I wouldn’t like. It’s a “I didn’t know” or “that question never surfaced”. It’s not a subject (horticulture) that I’m well versed in. Thanks for letting me achieve my goal of “learning one new thing each day”. My only question is: does it have any particular “taste profile”?
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Just curious. I have an abundance of purslane taking over my garden. Have research the nutritional value of this plant so finally decided to try it. Had anyone else eaten this weed? I tried two ways. 1) sauteed with some garlic and soy sauce, and 2) sauteed with some onion, garlic, tomato sauce and then simmered with rice. Both were pretty good.

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Just curious. I have an abundance of purslane taking over my garden. Have research the nutritional value of this plant so finally decided to try it. Had anyone else eaten this weed? I tried two ways. 1) sauteed with some garlic and soy sauce, and 2) sauteed with some onion, garlic, tomato sauce and then simmered with rice. Both were pretty good.

wdaly very interesting! I’ve seen purslane on lists of edible plants for survival and such, but this is the first I’ve seen someone cook it up! That is darn cool of you to try!
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wdaly Ah NO!!! It’s not that I wouldn’t like. It’s a “I didn’t know” or “that question never surfaced”. It’s not a subject (horticulture) that I’m well versed in. Thanks for letting me achieve my goal of “learning one new thing each day”. My only question is: does it have any particular “taste profile”?
zbigjeff It’s funny stuff. The stuff I harvested out of the garden is pretty mild. If you harvest it out of concrete cracks, it has a lot of citrus taste. Must be the heat, but two distinct tastes.
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Im gonna take a picture of the weed I thought you all were talking about and give you a good laugh. Luckily I looked up a picture of purslane before trying this at home!
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Here tonight’s purslane offering. This is the one make with tomato sauce.
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Just curious. I have an abundance of purslane taking over my garden. Have research the nutritional value of this plant so finally decided to try it. Had anyone else eaten this weed? I tried two ways. 1) sauteed with some garlic and soy sauce, and 2) sauteed with some onion, garlic, tomato sauce and then simmered with rice. Both were pretty good.

wdaly I have heard of this for a long time & have tried many things & used to regularly eat or drink some things that they are now saying is not good. I have never tried this though, but there is a lot of it our there. We are going to have to try it before long. Thank you.
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wdaly that looks tasty
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Had my first fresh corn
from the garden. It was really good but about a week or 10 days from being fully mature. Getting lots of cucumbers and 5 or 6 tomatoes
a day now. Man it’s great to be eating out of the garden again.

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Had my first fresh corn
from the garden. It was really good but about a week or 10 days from being fully mature. Getting lots of cucumbers and 5 or 6 tomatoes
a day now. Man it’s great to be eating out of the garden again.

cdavis Very nice looking garden, not much better than fresh vegetables that you have grown.
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Had my first fresh corn
from the garden. It was really good but about a week or 10 days from being fully mature. Getting lots of cucumbers and 5 or 6 tomatoes
a day now. Man it’s great to be eating out of the garden again.

cdavis Man I’m jealous. So far I just have radishes and turnip greens. I’m ready for corn, cukes, and tomatoes. Should have summer squash when I get back after the 4th.
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Had my first fresh corn
from the garden. It was really good but about a week or 10 days from being fully mature. Getting lots of cucumbers and 5 or 6 tomatoes
a day now. Man it’s great to be eating out of the garden again.

cdavis I miss that adventure. The taste out of the garden vs the store bought is at least 10 times better. Great looking yield.
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Had my first fresh corn
from the garden. It was really good but about a week or 10 days from being fully mature. Getting lots of cucumbers and 5 or 6 tomatoes
a day now. Man it’s great to be eating out of the garden again.

cdavis love watching corn grow and love eating fresh corn on the cob even more. I didn’t do corn this year.
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