I Did Not Know Swiss Chard Can Be Poisonous...
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Comments (16)To prevent freezer burn on your greens, pack them still rather wet from the blanching so that they end up in a protective layer of ice, use good quality freezer bags rather than the thinner food storage bags, and squeeze all the air out. I do that last by putting the greens in as a flat layer then rolling the bag with its greens up tightly from the bottom. When you're ready to use them the ice will provide all the water necessary to microwave them or you can thaw and drain them to saute or stir-fry them....See MoreBugs/Worms in my Swiss Chard
Comments (4)The following is information taken from a Rotonone instructional publication - "Rotonone acts as a stomach poison and as a contact insecticide. Not toxic to honeybees, but will kill some beneficial insects. Registered for use against most chewing insects on many vegetables and some fruits. Different brands and formulas are available for various pests. Both liquid and dust are available commercially. It has been fatal to mammals if inhaled over extended periods. Rotenone is effective against a wide range of insects and has a short residual life." Used properly, it is organic, highly effective and safe. It breaks down quickly and plants are safe to eat in a day or two. Hand picking infected leaves is a big job, especially if you have a large planting, and highly ineffective because once you see leaf damage from "leaf miners' they are already wide spread. Row covers are effective if used early enough, but if you have to plant under row covers to get a crop, you might just as well plant in a greenhouse. Part of the enjoyment I get from gardening is watching my plants grow and prosper. Somehow, row covers taks a lot of that away for me. Rotonone acts as a stomach poison and as a contact insecticide. Not toxic to honeybees, but will kill some beneficial insects. Registered for use against most chewing insects on many vegetables and some fruits. Different brands and formulas are available for various pests. Both liquid and dust are available commercially. It has been fatal to mammals if inhaled over extended periods. Rotenone is effective against a wide range of insects and has a short residual life....See MoreSwiss Chard Recipes
Comments (7)Ilene, It sounds like your retirement is off to a wonderful start and I am so glad you'e enjoying it. I have a little mud, thanks to that 2.6" of rain we got the other day, but our soil should dry pretty quickly since it was bone dry before the rainfall. Your mud seems to be an ongoing thing this year.....unfortunately. The photo of the poppy is gorgeous. I planted poppies after we bought the land in 1997 and they've reseeded here, there and everywhere (including in the middle of the dirt/gravel road one year). They always surprise me by popping up where least expected. I was only outside for a couple of hours this morning. We started out with 100% humidity for the third day in a row and once the temperatures heat up a little, it is unbearable outside. I'll go back out at about 3 or 4 o'clock, once the temps. start to drop a little. The garden looks really good to everyone who sees it, except me. And it isn't that is doesn't look good to me, just that it looks "behind" where it normally is by the end of May. What do I expect? We still had low temps. in the upper 30s and 40s in early May, so it would be odd if the garden wasn't "behind". I suspect by mid-June the garden will look about the way it usually does in mid-June, except the corn is still going to be behind. Some years I pick early corn by Memorial Day weekend....this year there is no early corn, and the regular corn won't be ready until July. That's the breaks. At least I have corn. Last year's rain wiped most of it out, so I hope we harvest a good crop this year. There is no rain in our forecast here for a few days and I only have a couple of things left to do in the veggie garden. I have one area of the flower border that needs to be weeded when it dries out a tiny bit more. I'm seeing snakes more and more, but only one rattler, and so far none in the garden that I've seen. The venomous snakes are my least favorite part of living here. I just hate them. I have one guinea who lost his or her mind and started roosting up high in the chicken coop (which has a high, peaked roof) about 4 o'clock yesteday and still hadn't come down as of a few minutes ago. Finally, I went out with a rake and chased it down off its' perch and out of the coop. It headed straight for the drinking water, and I came back inside. Hopefully, now that it is down, it will go out and eat and do other guinea things like prowling through the tall grass, flying madly from tree to tree and squawking and yakking like an idiot. I don't suppose we'll ever know why it sat on a perch for 22 hours. It is never dull around here, rain or shine. Dawn...See MoreSwiss Chard
Comments (10)This post on chard got me hungry for it soooooo... I picked a bunch of Chard today and made rollups... Filling: 2 cups Chicken broth 1 cup rice Boil until waters is gone but don't cook completely. While rice is cooking: Fry 3/4 lbs ground beef 1 med onion cut up fine 2 cloves garlic chopped up fine add rice to meat when done... add 1/4 can of diced tomatoes. add 1/4 tsp Cheyenne pepper add 1 tablespoon basil take 12-15 large chard leaves, cut off the bottom of the stalk. place in a sieve and pour boiling water from kettle over chard to blanch it. take mixture off of heat and add table spoons of Parmesan Cheese. Lay a leave of Chard out and fill using tooth pics to hold together. Place in Pan... Take the rest of the dice tomatoes and put a frying pan with 1 cup of water, 2 tablespoons of sugar 1 tsp basil 1/4 Tsp of Cheyenne pepper 1 glove chopped garlic. bring to a boil for a couple of minutes and then pour over the chard rolls. Bake at 375 for 35 minutes. At 25 minutes sprinkle with parmesan cheese. MMMMMMM GOOD!...See Morecolleenoz
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