Can it really be the 2nd week of July already? This year is just flying by! How are your gardens growing?
This past July 4th weekend was totally relaxing. We had the family over and grilled up Hamburgers, hotdogs, Jerk Chicken (spicy!) and fresh eggplant.
Diane and I made sure that the hamburgers had lettuce and tomatoes fresh from the garden. We took the biggest corncobs from our sweet corn, cut them in half and boiled them up. The carrots were pulled and the kids had them, then the eggplant was harvested, cut, drizzled with garlic oil with fresh chopped up garlic then thrown on the grill. Lastly the chicken which marinaded for a few days in our jerk sauce had fresh habaneros to spice it up.
We were so busy, I didn't get to take photos of all the yummy food!
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Photos from: eattheweeds.com
Edible Hibiscus, False Roselle,
* Dave's Garden INFO sheet
* Edible Garden in SW Florida Blog
* Eat the Weeds website
In our garden
I dropped off 2 plants for my coworkers this morning. We had gotten the seeds off of the plant from Dian's father who had gotten the plants from his next door neighbor. Mr. Higa had said it was an edible Hibiscus. Now for me not knowing a lot about plants - I had to research it.
The leaves do have the same color, size and shape of what others claim it to be, I don't know about the flowers, as I didn't see any on Ray's plants at the time we harvested the seeds. Time will tell once our plants get bigger and start to bloom.
Take a look at eat the weeds website, they have a great page about this plant.
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Panoramic view of the Backyard
Koolau Farmers - Ghost Peppers
our Ghost Pepper (fully orange now) Born to be Mild (staying green, not RED)
Pumpkin Patch Kale (strong and heathy)
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