Odds and Ends

We have a bumper crop of mizuna, for those who don't know, it is a delicious asian green. It is hearty enough to add to soups but delicate enough to use in a salad.  It has a peppery, slightly spicy flavor similar to arugula.  It was doing well two weeks ago but after the week of sunshine it went crazy.  I filled an entire trash bag full to the top of mizuna, and still there is an unbelievable amount left.  I took the bag over to Christy's she is going to rinse it and blanch it, this will preserve the color.  We are going to make a pesto with it, check for the recipe in the "Recipes" tab at the top of the page.  (It will be posted soon)
I planted a row of sunflowers and a row of cosmos in the small garden near my cabin.  I planted about 7 kinds of sunflowers and at least 9 kinds of cosmos, so it will be nice to watch them bloom throughout the summer.  While I weeded in the first hoops house, John was weeding the second hoop house mainly the tomato plants.  Each plant has a small plastic label that tells the kind and variety of that particular plant 
eg: "Sweet Chelsea" - Cherry Tomato or "Opalka" - Paste Tomato
The label is very important however it is difficult to read under the foliage of the plants and it usually gets covered in dirt.  In order to run a hoe around the plant to weed it, you have to first pick up the label which is frustrating to do 350 times. John had this great idea to use laminated cards and attach them to the string holding the tomato plants up. GENIUS!  I realize this may be less exciting to you all in the blogosphere but this is the coolest thing to me, it will make life easier for me...and farming is hard work so any thing to make it easier is cool.

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