It’s hot down here in the Ozarks–really hot and humid–with temps mostly in the high 90s everyday.
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It ’s hot down here in the Ozarks – really hot and humid – with temps mostly in the high-pitched XC everyday . There has been a respectable bit of rainwater , though garden are thirsty and some are parched if they have n’t been watered . However , there is still a keen deal of garden bounteousness to be had .
Last week , I taught kinsfolk school with a couple of fun class . pupil and I reap herbs and plant material in the sunup before the sun got too hot . We glean lots of herbs to dry , make syrups and vinegars , and Basil of Caesarea to make pesto , as well as uncivilized greens like ‘ Magenta Spreen ’ lambs ’ quartern and purslane , to make a wild honey oil salsa verde./item/9876 / lambs - twenty-five percent - enjoy - raving mad - weeds / item/61630 / purslane - portulaca - oleracea
I was thrilled that the elderberry were right just in clock time for the “ Spirited Infusions ” family and we harvested them to utilize in elderberry shrub and elderberry cordial . They are still ripen from light-green to purple , so we harvest them as they mature and put them in the deep-freeze , which crap the berries much easier to remove from the stems . Only the purple berries should be eaten – green Charles Edward Berry and all other plant parts contain prussic loony toons which can cause nitril poisoning./item/13198 / elder - herb - of - the - year-2013
Whipporwill black-eyed pea have been spare and grown in the OFC Kitchen Garden for years ; the seed was brought from Williamsburg by gardener Tina Marie Wilcox about 15 days ago . Vigna unguiculata‘Whippoorwill ’ was originally brought by African slaves to America and Thomas Jefferson cultivated them at Monticello . There are many kinds of cowpeas , sometimes referred to as Southern pea – they are related to black - eyed peas and crowders , however they are dissimilar from them .
unfermented cowpeas , if humble and attendant , can be snapped and eaten like a green noodle . Fresh cowpeas in pods can be shelled and make like a fresh bean . Or they can be dried and saved for wintertime meals or sowing . Often in the past and still today , cooks snap the small beans and puts them in the pot with the shelled beans and cooks them together , long - simmered , until attendant . Their wad liquor is compact and gravylike . formula of old , might have seasoned with fatback and perhaps some onion plant , saltiness and pepper . I cook them with olive oil , Allium cepa , garlic , hot pepper , and time of year with savoury , salinity and pepper . As they say down here in the South : “ They are serious eatin ! ”
Keep coolheaded and enjoy the harvesting time of year !
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Flags flying over red amaranth and the Kitchen Garden at the Ozark Folk Center, Mountain View, Arkansas. Click on other pix to enlarge and read captions.Photo/Illustration: Susan Belsinger
