Sat, Aug. 2nd, 2008, 09:45 pm
babby garlics!

In addition to cooking, I'm learning to garden. I planted garlic before I ran off to New York, and when I got back two weeks later, they had sprouted. I love cooking with garlic, and it's apparently good to grow in desert country because it likes dry soil, so I figured it'd be a good Texas plant. Also, it's super easy to grow; all you have to do is stick one of the cloves into some dirt and water it a little bit, and voila! (Protip: Plant about an inch deep or it can't sprout; the one at the back left is tiny because it was too deep and I only fished it out a couple of days ago — but look, it's sprouted already.)

Baby garlics

I've also got an avocado seed trying to sprout, but I'm not sure if it'll work. The seed has cracked, but I don't see any roots appearing. I planted some nasturtiums and some passion flowers, but the seeds were more than ten years old and they haven't sprouted; I think they're probably bad by now. I might try some onions, and an orange tree. I have a peach seed in the fridge, but peaches are high maintenance! I'm looking for other easy things to grow; gardening is fun, but the less I'm obligated to take care of it, the more I will be willing to take care of it.

I got eggs and ground turkey at the store today, because I am going to make ravioli! It will have some combination of mushroom/ricotta/turkey; possibly turkey/ricotta in mushroom sauce? Or mushroom/ricotta with turkey. Dunno. I'm going to make the pasta myself, I think it'll be fun.

I need more food/plant icons to reflect my new hobbies. Hmm.
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Sun, Aug. 3rd, 2008 02:42 am (UTC)
pishbadlarr

Carrots are easy! And I had really good luck this year with planting-then-ignoring radishes, 'garden' beans (the package didn't get any more specific, oddly), and cucumbers (though those had a rough start). Plus seeds'll be cheap in the next couple months as they try to get rid of this years' inventory. I usually try to stock up on seeds and bulbs in autumn :)
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Sun, Aug. 3rd, 2008 04:22 am (UTC)
[info]aristaea

Ooh, carrots! <3 I'm afraid Texas might be too hot for them, though, Google tells me they like cooler soil, and the high tomorrow is supposed to be 107°.

I wouldn't know what to do with radishes, since I don't consider them edible... XD

I'm going to try to grow some of the stuff I use a lot, like tomatoes, and fresh herbs. I live down the street from a local farmer's market, and they have decent selection of small edible herbs for planting, like mint, sage, basil, etc.

Thanks for the tip on seeds.
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Sun, Aug. 3rd, 2008 05:11 am (UTC)
pishbadlarr

I'm not sure, I never got a chance to try carrots when I lived in El Paso but I was told they'd do okay since they rather like poor soil, and we had the worst soil ever. XD Herbs would be /wonderful/ to have growing, I keep trying for mint, parsley and basil and none of it wants to germinate so far. Boo. Good luck!
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Sun, Aug. 3rd, 2008 07:16 am (UTC)
[info]aristaea

Thanks! Re: herbs, have you tried baby plants from a nursery? My mom used to grow herbs when I was a kid, and we had a huge collection of mints. But she didn't plant them, she started them from seedlings that she ordered from a catalogue, and they were already rooted when they arrived.
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