Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Jan 17

Outdoors, in California:

I hope you are doing well. Our first daffodil bloomed! Such a happy flower.

NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker

Indoors, in Kansas

Outside it’s cold and dreary. Inside the purple-red miniature Cattleya is blooming again.

Don

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

Started a batch of naturally fermented kosher dill pickles, and a batch of fresh sauerkraut. Testing these to see if they will be good enough for the LA County Fair culinary competition. Pickles will be ready in about four days; sauerkraut maybe two weeks.

I go by the name By-tor

They look great! For fair time, you might try growing some dill heads to harvest after they start to turn brown, but before they are dry. Makes a big difference in flavor.

For lower-salt refrigerator pickles (using vinegar rather than natural fermentation), raw vinegar adds a nice flavor. There's a recipe in a past post here. I'll try to find it.

For those who would like to try growing cabbage, Pinetree has a good selection of types, big and small, red and green, round and long. Danish Ballhead is one which is recommended for sauerkraut.

They also sell dill seed (for seed and weed).

ART

Adventure

Neal in Israel:

From Israel, I'm sending a few shots of a wildflower, the common squill, taken at an archaeological site on the Golan Heights. The appearance of the squill signals the arrival of fall.

Golan Heights!

Gardens of The Horde

Anything going on in your garden?

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Jan 10

Any thoughts or questions?

I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

posted by K.T. at 01:16 PM

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