Monday, January 30, 2012

Barn Hop #47


This week has been awesome weather wise. I thought it was supposed to be a cold and rainy this winter in Florida, but I guess not. At least I hope not. I know it can still sneak in there but I bought some plants anyway.

I worked on getting my beds ready to plant this weekend. We had 74 degree weather today and the sun was bright. I had a surprise (or four) in my square garden bed too. Four little strawberry plants that survived the hot summer months & multiplied! I had them in a pot, but it got knocked over and I thought they were goners but they just rooted themselves and continued to do well. I actually bought another one today (there were two in the pot) and planted those right along with the others. So now I have six total. I am not sure how much they will produce, but they sure are pretty!

I also bought two tomato plants (Romas), a basil and a thyme plant. My oregano had taken over the area so I cut it back and will dry those leaves. I also had a nice little surprise in that my chives have also survived. My rosemary is looking kind of 'stick' like, anyone have any suggestions on what to do? Should I just cut it back? At least it will fill out more, hopefully. :)

It was supposed to get down to 46 tonight so I brought the tomatoes and herbs back in the house, but they got some sunshine today. I don't think it will get that cold, but that is what they are calling for.

I am not going crazy this year on gardening. I tried to do too much last spring and nothing worked out well, so I got discouraged early and didn't do any fall gardening. But I am getting back on the horse and trying again. Small this time around. I am going to grow some pole beans this time around as apposed to the bush beans. The bush beans did ok, but I am hoping for better luck with the pole beans. I found a latticed piece of board that I will use for a trellis. Yay, free is good.

Speaking of beans, a friend of mine told me about a good recipe for them. Here is the recipe for "french fried green beans". I haven't tried them yet, but my friend swears they taste like french fries.

green beans
olive oil
salt & pepper

Lightly 'oil' the green beans as evenly as you can but don't saturate them (like other roasted veggies). Salt & pepper them and then roast in 350 until crisp. She said it took about 30 minutes. That is it!

I will definitely be trying them this week. :)

You can join up with the Barn Hop here. Enjoy your week!

4 comments:

  1. Yum! Those green beans sound amazing. Will definitely have to try them. I'm glad you're getting back into gardening. A little at a time. Luke and I want to start growing veggies in pots on our back deck. You wanna give us some advice?

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    1. I made them tonight and the only thing I would change it to maybe cut them in half first and to really keep an eye on them. they got away from me and I burned some, BUT they were scrumptious! Yummmmm.
      I would just start with the typical and grow some tomatoes, peppers and herbs. Start with that and then go from there. If you have a railing, maybe some green beans would be good. They will need sun so plant so they get lots of sun. :) xoxo Thanks for commenting!

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  2. Amazing you are getting so much done! I absolutely agree that we should take a trip to your place to warm up and recover, I'm all for it and I think the Pug and Chihuahua are packing their bags as I type! LOL.

    Those beans sound yummy! It's about 35 here and it's like a heatwave, minus all the snow ;)

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    1. yay! come on down, lolol. I am praying the weather stays nice. Last years "spring" was horrendous but so far it looks great! I do have the tomatoes in containers right now, so I can get them in the house if I need to. :)

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