Honestly one of my favorite parts of gardening is smoking a bowl, put on a headlamp, find a good podcast, and doing some late night pruning.
Your garden would basically be a wellness retreat. Airflow is your friend.
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Those peppers look so healthy.
I enlarged your photo to look a little more closely. I want to suggest that with those leeks, you can make leek broth. When they get to that stage they get hard and impossible to use as chopped leeks, but a very good use for them is to wash them and put them in a slowcooker overnight. Then strain the broth and freeze it to use for soup.
I found this makes for an easy soup. Anytime you don’t have to peel and chop an onion makes makes soup easier.
I put them on a cookie sheet in one-gallon bags to freeze. Later I remove the cookie sheet and stack the broths, labelled. Some I mix with herbs, others with garlic, and a few with the full complement of vegetables like carrots, celery, etc.
This year I am staggering the planting of my leeks so they don’t all come in at one time.
Those flower heads you see on the leeks can also be used. I slice them up and use them for salads, but some I let mature into little bulbets, and that’s what I plant. I put a few out every week.
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Honestly one of my favorite parts of gardening is smoking a bowl, put on a headlamp, find a good podcast, and doing some late night pruning.
Your garden would basically be a wellness retreat. Airflow is your friend.
Those peppers look so healthy.
I enlarged your photo to look a little more closely. I want to suggest that with those leeks, you can make leek broth. When they get to that stage they get hard and impossible to use as chopped leeks, but a very good use for them is to wash them and put them in a slowcooker overnight. Then strain the broth and freeze it to use for soup.
I found this makes for an easy soup. Anytime you don’t have to peel and chop an onion makes makes soup easier.
I put them on a cookie sheet in one-gallon bags to freeze. Later I remove the cookie sheet and stack the broths, labelled. Some I mix with herbs, others with garlic, and a few with the full complement of vegetables like carrots, celery, etc.
This year I am staggering the planting of my leeks so they don’t all come in at one time.
Those flower heads you see on the leeks can also be used. I slice them up and use them for salads, but some I let mature into little bulbets, and that’s what I plant. I put a few out every week.