Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

[chickadoodles]

Does anyone here grow Parsley root? I never have, but do occasionally find it at the produce section (not always). Like to use it in chicken soup as one of the vegetables. Of course we use the greens also.

I've never seen it. I did cut the ends off 3 stalks of celery and put them in some water to root. They have rooted. I need to harden them off and try planting them

 

[lazy gardener]

Have not grown the parsley root.

Stop reading now if you don't want to follow a bunny trail regarding volunteerism in the garden.

I grow parsley every year. Accidentally grew curley leaf last season, and was very pleased with it. I have always chosen the Italian flat leaf in the past. Parsley is one of those crops that you can have forever if you let it go to seed. It is a biannual, so you have to plan for that. If you keep a neat garden, and till it completely every spring, you are not going to want to keep a plant that gets quite exuberant as it goes through it's second season. But, for me, that's a non issue. I have volunteers all over the place: garlic is the primary offender. Also Egyptian onions. Then there's the dill. Oh my! I vow to try to control that, but never succeed. And the raspberries which have now spread into the asparagus bed. And, the lettuce! Love that volunteer lettuce. And the calendula, and nasturtiums, and sunflowers! Last year, I let an over wintered chard plant go to seed, and also harvested a huge crop of kale seed.

 

[R2elk]

I currently have 6 different kinds of cherries blooming. The Nanking cherries started first and are still going. There is one Carmine Jewel Dwarf cherry tree, 3 Evans Bali, one Garfield Plantation cherry tree blooming for the first time this year, 2 Meteor cherry trees that froze off and are blooming for the first time since the freeze and on Sand cherry bush. The chokecherries are close but haven't started blooming yet.

Carmine Jewel Dwarf Cherry

 

[Leahs Mom]

@lazy gardener
I didn't realize that dill would seed itself!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

@lazy gardener
I didn't realize that dill would seed itself!

Mines all over the place too. I never need to plant it anymore.

 

[bruceha2000]

I currently have 6 different kinds of cherries blooming.

Are those all canning cherries?

 

[Leahs Mom]

Planted a Romeo bush cherry last week and the Carmine Jewel just arrived today. However.... the Carmine Jewel was potted and only about 12" tall rather than the bare rootstock. I'm concerned that it's so small!

Maybe I'll do a photo over the weekend when I have more time.

 

[lazy gardener]

@lazy gardener
I didn't realize that dill would seed itself!

It comes up as thick as grass in parts of my garden. I must get out there with my scuffle hoe and deal with it. But... it's so soft, and pretty, and smells so good!

 

[R2elk]

Are those all canning cherries?

They are all sour cherries. The Nanking and the Sand Cherries are too small to mess with as well as trying to save them from the birds. The Nankings get a reddish blush on one side while they are still a month away from being ripe and I have had robins completely clean them out at that time.

I did get enough from one of the Evans Bali trees last year that I had an absolutely wonderful cherry pie.

 

[R2elk]

It comes up as thick as grass in parts of my garden. I must get out there with my scuffle hoe and deal with it. But... it's so soft, and pretty, and smells so good!

I grew up in a non windy place and had no idea that dill was an annual because the dill patch was in the same spot every year and it was not being replanted. Here the wind blows so much that I have to work at preventing it from taking over the whole garden.