Sunday, June 20, 2010

Summer Projects

The Tower House garden is looking pretty good. Last weekend I harvested the radishes (not sure what you do with three pounds of radishes - suggestions?) Today I got the first of the banana peppers and a couple of okra pods. There are bell peppers on the vine (little), green tomatoes, and flowers on the zucchini and bush beans. The only disappointment so far has been the corn. I bought new seed, planted three 10-foot rows, and had about a dozen plants come up. That accounts for the blank area to the right side. I filled in part of the space with some last-chance watermelons that Lee Ann picked up at half off, and planted some more of the corn seed I had left over (what's that definition of insanity?) so hopefully that area will fill up soon.

My rainy day project is taking out the old kitchen. I disassembled the island and now am chipping up the ugly floor tile. Below that is cement board, and below that chipboard underlayment, and below that (hopefully) the original floorboards, waiting to be restored. I am using a spud bar to break up the tile but it's slow going and there are more nails and screws per inch than should be allowed by law. I'd like to strangle the people responsible for this mess! Lucky for them that they are probably dead already.



1 comment:

The McAlpines said...

Update - I went online and found a recipe for mooli paratha, an Indian radish bread, and used up about half our radish trove making four big pancake-like bread discs which Lee Ann and I ate for supper. We didn't have the spices the recipe called for, and I used chopped banana peppers and okra in place of the green chiles required, but we liked it anyway.

Our only other idea for what to do with the radishes involved a slingshot and the neighbor's barky dog, so I guess things worked out for the best.