Comments on: Fava Beans and Sugar Snaps in the ground http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/ in the garden, in the kitchen and on the page Mon, 12 May 2008 10:48:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: the sac back pack http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/#comment-63221 the sac back pack Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:58:21 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/#comment-63221 [...] out into the parking lot after work yesterday, a flock of robins landed in the grass and the windhttp://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/Lufkin falls to The Woodlands in nine innings The Lufkin Daily NewsAgainst perennial nemesis the [...] […] out into the parking lot after work yesterday, a flock of robins landed in the grass and the windhttp://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/Lufkin falls to The Woodlands in nine innings The Lufkin Daily NewsAgainst perennial nemesis the […]

]]> By: Kelly http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/#comment-62410 Kelly Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:55:19 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/#comment-62410 Lacy, I've heard that about garlic and milk. Yuck-o! Lacy, I’ve heard that about garlic and milk. Yuck-o!

]]> By: Razor Family Farms http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/#comment-62400 Razor Family Farms Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:58:18 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/#comment-62400 My husband grew up in the northern portion of the midwest (Illinois) and I couldn't get over the wind when we visited there in winter. It was January and ice (sandy stuff) was carried in the wind -- turning them into stinging pellets which pounded everything. My face actually burned from it. While I miss the snow... I really don't like any of the other weather that one must endure to earn the stuff. I see snow as nature's way of paying you back for putting up with chilblains and frozen water troughs. Perhaps I have become a little wimpy now that I think of it. :) We had wild garlic growing in the fields around the home I grew up in. Our neighbors told us that it ruined the milk from their family cow and so I never thought about growing it in my garden until a few years ago. What a delight! I grew it in containers -- not wanting it to spread everywhere and found it to be very easy-going. Even with our mild winters -- it grew quite well and was very flavorful. I confess that I bragged a bit when company came over and I could inform them that EVEN the garlic was grown in my little garden! Eagerly awaiting your next installment, Lacy My husband grew up in the northern portion of the midwest (Illinois) and I couldn’t get over the wind when we visited there in winter. It was January and ice (sandy stuff) was carried in the wind — turning them into stinging pellets which pounded everything. My face actually burned from it.

While I miss the snow… I really don’t like any of the other weather that one must endure to earn the stuff. I see snow as nature’s way of paying you back for putting up with chilblains and frozen water troughs. Perhaps I have become a little wimpy now that I think of it. :)

We had wild garlic growing in the fields around the home I grew up in. Our neighbors told us that it ruined the milk from their family cow and so I never thought about growing it in my garden until a few years ago. What a delight! I grew it in containers — not wanting it to spread everywhere and found it to be very easy-going. Even with our mild winters — it grew quite well and was very flavorful. I confess that I bragged a bit when company came over and I could inform them that EVEN the garlic was grown in my little garden!

Eagerly awaiting your next installment,

Lacy

]]> By: Kelly http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/#comment-62398 Kelly Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:23:49 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/#comment-62398 yay, Debra! Hope planting helped ground you a bit. Will try to give you a call today! we need to have lunch...xoxo yay, Debra! Hope planting helped ground you a bit. Will try to give you a call today! we need to have lunch…xoxo

]]> By: Kelly http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/#comment-62397 Kelly Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:23:12 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/#comment-62397 Hi Lacy, thank you so much for stopping by and for your most kind words. I'm so glad you're going to try some of the recipes (many of them found on other blogs!) I'm envious of your earlier spring, but here I am on the northern edge of the Northeast, the beginning of the Midwest. Winter stays long past her welcome around here. But thunderstorms and 60º this morning at 6am...so there's hope! Hi Lacy, thank you so much for stopping by and for your most kind words. I’m so glad you’re going to try some of the recipes (many of them found on other blogs!)

I’m envious of your earlier spring, but here I am on the northern edge of the Northeast, the beginning of the Midwest. Winter stays long past her welcome around here. But thunderstorms and 60º this morning at 6am…so there’s hope!

]]> By: Kelly http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/#comment-62396 Kelly Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:20:05 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/#comment-62396 Oh, Rebecca...you drive home again the point that I must get the hoop house or a polytunnel up this year! I'm going to have to try that pea sprouts in the salad trick. Does that work with any variety of peas? We have one pack of shelling peas left from two years ago that I didn't much like the results of, but maybe they'll be incredible in a salad. Thanks for the suggestion! Oh, Rebecca…you drive home again the point that I must get the hoop house or a polytunnel up this year!

I’m going to have to try that pea sprouts in the salad trick. Does that work with any variety of peas? We have one pack of shelling peas left from two years ago that I didn’t much like the results of, but maybe they’ll be incredible in a salad. Thanks for the suggestion!

]]> By: Kelly http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/#comment-62395 Kelly Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:17:22 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/#comment-62395 Hey there, 6P. Garlic is so easy to grow. Just don't plant the garlic you buy in the grocery store, it's been treated to not sprout (and is never very good to begin with). I get seed garlic from a local farmer, and there may be someone selling it near you, but you can also buy seed garlic online and in most seed catalogs now...particularly the heirloom seed catalogs. It gets planted in the fall so it has a chance to establish a sprout and a bit of a root system before the ground freezes, in rows about a foot apart, individual cloves set point up about 4-5" in rich, loose soil. They like a mulch for winter (chopped leaves and straw works well), and then I also keep them mulched during the growing season to keep down weeds. Harvest mid-late summer. google 'growing garlic' and you'll come up with plenty of great info. Good luck! Hey there, 6P. Garlic is so easy to grow. Just don’t plant the garlic you buy in the grocery store, it’s been treated to not sprout (and is never very good to begin with). I get seed garlic from a local farmer, and there may be someone selling it near you, but you can also buy seed garlic online and in most seed catalogs now…particularly the heirloom seed catalogs.

It gets planted in the fall so it has a chance to establish a sprout and a bit of a root system before the ground freezes, in rows about a foot apart, individual cloves set point up about 4-5″ in rich, loose soil. They like a mulch for winter (chopped leaves and straw works well), and then I also keep them mulched during the growing season to keep down weeds. Harvest mid-late summer.

google ‘growing garlic’ and you’ll come up with plenty of great info. Good luck!

]]> By: debra http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/#comment-62368 debra Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:48:57 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2008/03/27/fava-beans-and-sugar-snaps%e2%80%94in-the-ground/#comment-62368 got the peas in today!! will ty to plant more later in the week if we don't get the deluge that is expected. I just came in from putting the chickens in--------peepers!!!!!! Spring really is here. got the peas in today!! will ty to plant more later in the week if we don’t get the deluge that is expected. I just came in from putting the chickens in——–peepers!!!!!! Spring really is here.

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