RE: Growing Salad Greens in the Summer Heat, the Shapes of Leaves, and Guineafowls Destroying My Garden | HiveGarden Journal

[riverflows]

First of all, a salad of rocket leaves and roasted butternut is not weird, it's perfect.

Secondly, DAMN YOU FOWL OF ANY KIND. You make think you are clever, coming round with you 'oh, I eat all the bugs and fertilise your garden' holier than thou excuse, but FUCK YOU for eating all my silverbeet that self seeded in the part of the garden that I DID NOT GIVE YOU ACCESS TO and don't you dare give me that 'the wind blew the gate open and I thought it meant we were allowed' look! Are oats and grains not enough for you???

Sorry now I'm getting personal.

Wicking beds are the best for summer greens, as is self seeding in parts of garden good for them, so yay for self seeding... Or me shaking seed plants all over garden...

As is changing perception of what a salad is, in summer. Rocket ALWAYS bolts fast and is too bitter for me in summer. So it's usually spiraled zucchini, fennel fronds, fennel flowers, cucumber, tomato, lettuce from wicking bed, and like you, any other random greens I fight fowl for.

And so much basil!

I'm planting greens especially for the chooks today.

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[fermentedphil]

First of all, a salad of rocket leaves and roasted butternut is not weird, it's perfect.

Oh yes! There is just something to that combination (I also add candied sunflower seeds; basically sunflower seed brittle).

Secondly, DAMN YOU FOWL OF ANY KIND.

Especially when they dig out seedlings and new plants. And the squirrels as well. Damn you squirrels for stealing all of my gooseberries and strawberries and peaches, damn you! (I can also get personal on your comment 🤣.)

Wicking beds are the best for summer greens,

I have been wanting to do this for so long, especially in our drought-ridden area. Or what I wanted to do is to capture all of the water again and re-use it either on the same plants or elsewhere. A concept very close to this one.

spiraled zucchini, fennel fronds, fennel flowers, cucumber, tomato, lettuce

This sounds fantastic really. I have a whole bed of fennel growing well now, so guess who is getting an overload of fennel this autumn. I hope they grow nice and strong so I can harvest them in the winter for some lovely soups.

And so much basil!

One can never have enough basil! I love it. A quick pesto on some pasta is the best.

Thanks for the visit! Always lovely to hear the stories from that side of the pond.

[riverflows]

Oooh yes fennel in soup is good. Last season: leftover roast potato with fennel and leek tops .. cooked and pureed.. a bit of fetta and black onion seeds on top... Yum.

[fermentedphil]

Oh my, that sounds like heaven! I am shamelessly going to write this down and make it this winter. Thanks for sharing this!