I started this blog to record my experiments/adventures in the land of urban agriculture. It is growing into a garden consutation business. I will be happy to advise, plan, install and maintain (or any combination thereof) a garden for you. Contact me for more information at lknzfarm@gmail.com or 678-427-3101, or message me at Elkins Farm and Garden on FB.
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Friday, May 29, 2015
First Harvest is Up and Curing
Monday, May 25, 2015
Boring Old Details
1/2" rain yesterday evening. No watering until Friday if at all this week.
Need to start seeds for last of summer squash, next round of tomatoes, winter squash, pumpkins, and maybe eggplant. I also need to decide how I'm going to do my sweet taters. Do I buy slips or do I make them? That's the $2 question. Tune in tomorrow, "same Bat-Time, same Bat-Station"
The Buzz Around the Farm
A frame full of honey held by my Hunny.
Sunday, May 24, 2015
A Little Plant Relocation Program
Pearce and I spent some time filling in holes in the rows of okra and field peas.
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Pop Goes the Veggies
What we found when we got back from Zane's graduation.
Okra
Saturday, May 16, 2015
The Great 'Scape
That right there is about 3-4 lbs of garlic scapes. I split them into 4 bags. They are now residing in my freezer, but would rather be in your cook pots.
Friday, May 15, 2015
Garlic Scapes, WooHoo
Look at these beautiful scapes. I think they are one of the coolest things in the garden. Here is a quote from one of the sites I looked at while hunting up some recipes for the little boogers.
"... scapes are to garlic as fusilli is to rigatoni: the crazy-b_____d college buddy who never really embraced adulthood, the one you catch up with by phone once or twice a year. Scapes are the shoots that grow out of the ground from hard-neck varieties of garlic. When they're young and tender, they look like curly green stalks with tightly closed buds on top. Farmers and gardeners harvest them at this time of year so that they won't drain nutrients from the garlic bulbs that will be dug up in a couple of months, plump and glorious and ready for drying. But scapes offer more than a slightly rowdy alternative to garlic. Because of their substantial heft as opposed to garlic cloves, they are vegetable, aromatic, and even herb all in one. " Carolyn Cope, The Crisper Whisperer
Look at the recipes and ideas below and let me know if you want some. There is a limited supply.Here are some recipes for using garlic scapes.
Garlic Scape Pesto
Garlic Scape Vinegar
7 Things To Do With Garlic Scapes
Here's a quote from another garlic site about keeping the little guys around after they're cut.
"Garlic scapes keep well in cold storage, though freshly cut scapes taste the best. You can keep scapes in the refrigerator for a month or more, in a paper bag to avoid turning them into a slimy science project.
They freeze well, too--blanched or not--but they tend to
lose some of the garlicky heat during long storage below freezing. Even if they
lose some flavor, scapes from the freezer add a great texture and color to
dishes long after scape season has passed.
One of our farm customers swears by vacuum-packing and then
freezing, but we haven't tried it yet. And in the 2013 season a few of us have
committed to experimenting with blanching and not blanching scapes before
freezing and comparing the results at different times in the scapeless portion of the year.
If you want to keep scapes flavorful for many moons, make up
some scape pesto for the freezer.
Some people pickle garlic scapes, too, and
you'll find recipes on the web."Wednesday, May 6, 2015
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