ALERT! June, July and August have gone missing. The last time I posted here was in May and it was about my microgreens and sadly, shamefully, I did not follow up. In brief, the outcome was just okay. Turns out my dear husband does not care for radishes, not one iota. But hey, that little experiment was back in May. There are days ahead to play with microgreens again, just not anytime soon. I am in full anticipation of fall. I've started broccoli seeds inside under the grow lights. I have Belstar and a fancy purple broc. They came up in 3 days. Yes, you read that right, 3 days. I'm waiting on the chives and celery to come up. I also started cumin - that's the wild card. I know nothing about growing cumin. This is probably the wrong time of year for it but if it works out, how thrilling will that be?! As for garden plans, I have a few. I've pulled up everything that I could along the front fence. We went to the nursery and looked at Pink Muhly grass. Michael has alway
Let me start by saying I haven’t a clue what I am doing. Michael and I went to a little, and I do mean little, restaurant last week - Nixta Taqueria . The food was beautiful and good. So, so beautiful and so very good. The tostada was delicately presented, not a way I would have ever thought I’d describe a tostada but nonetheless. They used microgreens in several of their dishes. Now, I’ve grown bean sprouts in the past, like many decades ago but these were no bean sprouts. These were lacy and purple. Needless to say, I had my next project. I wanted to grow them inside as opposed to the backyard because I wanted to make them readily available for Michael. He has a late night salad after work several days a week and I always feel bad when he has to go out to the garden with a flashlight and scissors to snip this or that for his dinner. The first thing I purchased was a grow light. It came a week before the microgreen seeds so I set it up and placed a tiny little baby basil seedli