If gardening is science (see Science and the Garden
The Scientific Basis of Horticultural Practice by Ingram, Prue and Gregory), then this is my lab:
Zucchini, elevated bed
Zucchini, under oak
Herbs and Pink Fir Apple potatoes
Strawberries, now eaten
(For more, see Het Veld)
My mouth is watering.
Yes, cruel that you show those strawberries and say they are eaten! I shall have to make do with my irony cake instead.
You don’t see strawberries like that very often in the States. A lot of the strawberries sold are hardly strawberries at all – the size of small apples and white inside. I am not sure what they were bred for, but it sure wasn’t taste.
So if the garden is your lab, you get to eat your experimental results? Curious approach. Can’t say I ever tried it. Not in my herpes lab, anyway. Jealous here.
What the heck do you do with all that zucchini when it comes in? Perhaps you fry the flowers first?
@Anna – when I was a girl growing up in the Boston area, I was the official tender of the Alpine strawberry plot in our yard. The precise opposite of berries shipped east green from California.
My cucumber and sweetcorn plot looks very sad and pathetic. But today I harvested my very first alpine strawberry of the season. It didn’t taste of very much, but it was mine.
Zucchini under oak and oak under Zucchini…
Very nice! The strawberries look juicy and tasty indeed… (Here, they have left the Delhi streets since 2-3 months).
“Zucchini under oak and oak under Zucchini…”
That, my friend, is true agroforestry:) The first zucchini is getting ripe on the agroforestry plot. The first one was harvested on the conventional plot today.
Another fresh product from the lab:
Coulis of raspberry with wild blueberries.
‘now eaten’, I guess…, I follow Maxine: Cruel!
Coulis of raspberry with wild blueberries.
So, that’s what it is. For some reason I had got it into my head that it was a savory dish and was imagining some kind of red Tandoori sauce.
Raspberries: there are more where they came from…
Raspberries from the lab: impossible to eat them all
really enjoiying, thanks!
I do my efforts too, in a draugh-like climate (Lecce).
have alook at my experimental results, and recipes for zucchini
http://czechfood.blogspot.com