Gardening chat ..AHHH! swoon, just picked and eaten the first corn on the cob from this season,

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joanietoo

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First time I have been able to get really fat and full ears here in the Caribbean even though only a few plants grew. The corn is a white variety. (Miracle grow worked wonders here)

Sadly all the arugula just went belly up, as did my sage plant, I can't see the reason.

I have a few soya bean plants for the first time ever. I hope they give me the edamame pods although I don't know how to prepare these for eating, any suggestions? (other than boiling the pods)

And I do like these sprinkled with salt

Picked a pineapple too, it is a small variety, never imagined I'd ever have a yearly producing pineapple plant!

 
These are so delicious and addictive REC: Spicy Soybeans

* Exported from MasterCook *

Spicy Soybeans

Recipe By :Sandy in Hawaii
Serving Size : 4 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories :

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

1 pound soybeans
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon hondashi*
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon sesame oil
4 cloves garlic -- minced

Red pepper flakes and salt to taste *Hondashi is a Japanese bonito(fish)- flavored powdered soup base. If it's not available, try using the soup packet powder from a package of dried ramen. I'd probably use less than a teaspoon, though. Cook soybeans according to package directions, drain and set aside. In a small bowl, combine soy sauce, hondashi and sugar. In a large skillet, heat sesame oil. Add minced garlic, and saute briefly. Add soy sauce mixture, then add soybeans. Saute until dark golden brown. Sprinkle with red pepper flakes and salt to taste. Enjoy!

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These look good....thank you

would one shell the beans first or boil them in the pod and then do as the recipe says?

I am curious to see if these plants produce a crop at all. So many things I plant here has the plant growing healthy enough but no flowers of edibles appear on a lot of the plants, quite weird.
Like my day lillies...no flowers yet in 3 years! and the citrus trees, a lemon tree has fruit but they are only on the lower branches, none of the other citrus (6) has born any flowers or fruit and they have been in for quite a few years now.

But that avo tree is laden this year, Hurrah!

 
I always cook them in the shell the follow the recipe with the edamame in their pods,

then you eat them out of the pods by scraping them through your teeth like an artichoke. They are so delicious, I have skipped the hondasi or ramen packet with great results.

 
You sruprise me. And the corn. I really didn't think it could grow there. As for the

arugula, I erred for a couple of years, trying to grow it.

I'm repeating myself here, but it especially likes to grow crowded. And in hot weather, can bolt pretty quickly, so eat it young. It was the crowding that finally got me enormous crops. I just ate what I was thinning. I planted some a month ago now, but we got cold weather back so it stopped growing. But it's cranking up again and should be ready to start munching on in a week or so. It's one of thoses things that can grow almost an inch in a day.

How did you plant it and how did it die Joanie?

 
Arugula ... Where are you, Marg CDN?

We grow ours in mostly shade, despite what the seed packet says, and it seems to love it. Also doesn't bolt (you mean get leggy?). Same with watercress. That's in Toronto. Nothing's veg-wise is in the ground yet, though I'm growing tomato seedlings indoors for the first time ever. Envious of all you people already eating local corn and strawberries. But then maybe you don't get to make snowmen. smileys/smile.gif

 
Yep, I'm here. In the Caribbean, I grew it in big pots that got sun almost all day. Here,

it gets sun half the day.

I scattered some 3-year old seeds in the regular corner of my garden awhile back. This is one crop that I don't rotate. It likes the cold. And it's now about 1" high. I didn't think the old seeds would all be so successful and now I have to thin it. But the sprouts will be good too.

Mine gets leggy (bolts) near the end of the season. That meets my need for seeds for the next year. I think bolting with arugula as anything over 7" or so. Maybe it doesn't like too much sun, although the wild arugula seems to prefer it.

 
OY I didn't crowd the seeds Marg, do you think they'll be ok? I have little sprouts now and can't

wait for them get to picking size. I was treating your seeds like gold since I don't care for the arugula seeds available here.

 
Oy back at you. They do best, I find, when they grow up together. That was the biggest mistake I

made when I first harvested seeds. And they were like gold then because they could not be bought.

Why not just toss some more seeds in among what you have? They don't need to be dug in, just watered and then you'll have a staggered crop with company for each other.

If you need some more seeds, I may have some, not sure. I have the harvested regular arugula but what I sent you was the wild European arugula. I think it's a bit more peppery.

lemme no

 
I checked on the little sprouts and it seems there might be enough planted. I'll throw in

a few more seeds to help them along. I plan on letting a few them go to seed so I'll have a big stash. thanks smileys/smile.gif

 
Rhubarb likes cold weather, Joanie. But I've heard that if you force it to go dormant in the late

summer by not watering, it will come back the next year.

I've been meaning to try it again here in CA because we have no rain in late summer and I could probably remember not to water it.

Otherwise I've had it last a year or two, then die out.

 
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