The beginning of zero food mile!
That's the environmental geek’s way of saying we started to eat the vegetable from our garden.
The vegetable we have now are bai tsai(Chinese cabbage) and buk choy. I collected the seeds last year when the weather got too hot and both of them started to flower and make seeds. I actually forgot that I have collected the seeds until I found the seed pods in two paper bags, Of course, I forgot which is which. Fortunately that’s not too bad. Because they are both Chinese cabbage and they pretty much like the same thing and I used to plant them side by side any way. So after I took most of the seeds out, there are some more seeds mixed with the seed pods which will take way too much time and effort to separate them out. So we decide to sprinkle the seeds/pods mix onto the bed that we prepared to grow them. That was back in February. Well, my thinking was, I still have lots of seeds. If they don’t come out, I will reseed them. It turns out, the nice few weeks of weather we had in March made the seeds all germinated. At first, David joked about that if I want him to finish the cold frame, the best way is to plants some lettuce so he would work on it in order to protect the lettuce. It turn out, we need the cold frame to protect the cabbage seedling when we got that frost in early April.
The cold frame works out beautifully. The cabbage outside of the cold frame did get some damage, but not too severe. But after a week, the cold frame proof itself worthwhile. The cabbages inside the cold frame was doing so much better, it carried on growing while the others suffered from the cold outside.
We moved the cold frame onto the eggplants few weeks ago when we planted the eggplants out. With the nice weather, the cabbages carry on growing that it is time to thin them. And we got to eat what we thin. David thinned some yesterday. After he was done, he realized that there is no change on the cabbage bed. That means, we get to carry on eating them.
It might end up like the lettuce last year. That the lettuce grew as fast as we ate them.( or faster) Well, it end up, there were always that much of lettuce on the bed, as much as we ate them, the amount didn’t decrease. So hopefully, we will have endless cabbage for a while and the lettuce will become endless soon as well.
Well, here is the link to the updated garden pictures.
http://picasaweb.google.com/fireflylin/OurGarden2009#
The vegetable we have now are bai tsai(Chinese cabbage) and buk choy. I collected the seeds last year when the weather got too hot and both of them started to flower and make seeds. I actually forgot that I have collected the seeds until I found the seed pods in two paper bags, Of course, I forgot which is which. Fortunately that’s not too bad. Because they are both Chinese cabbage and they pretty much like the same thing and I used to plant them side by side any way. So after I took most of the seeds out, there are some more seeds mixed with the seed pods which will take way too much time and effort to separate them out. So we decide to sprinkle the seeds/pods mix onto the bed that we prepared to grow them. That was back in February. Well, my thinking was, I still have lots of seeds. If they don’t come out, I will reseed them. It turns out, the nice few weeks of weather we had in March made the seeds all germinated. At first, David joked about that if I want him to finish the cold frame, the best way is to plants some lettuce so he would work on it in order to protect the lettuce. It turn out, we need the cold frame to protect the cabbage seedling when we got that frost in early April.
The cold frame works out beautifully. The cabbage outside of the cold frame did get some damage, but not too severe. But after a week, the cold frame proof itself worthwhile. The cabbages inside the cold frame was doing so much better, it carried on growing while the others suffered from the cold outside.
We moved the cold frame onto the eggplants few weeks ago when we planted the eggplants out. With the nice weather, the cabbages carry on growing that it is time to thin them. And we got to eat what we thin. David thinned some yesterday. After he was done, he realized that there is no change on the cabbage bed. That means, we get to carry on eating them.
It might end up like the lettuce last year. That the lettuce grew as fast as we ate them.( or faster) Well, it end up, there were always that much of lettuce on the bed, as much as we ate them, the amount didn’t decrease. So hopefully, we will have endless cabbage for a while and the lettuce will become endless soon as well.
Well, here is the link to the updated garden pictures.
http://picasaweb.google.com/fireflylin/OurGarden2009#