What's in your garden?

[perc-o-prince]

Well, I brought home some Easter lilly pots that had dried up at the cemetary, and popped the contents into the ground this past spring. Both popped this past week, and one had a double bloom! Easter lillies in October! Cool!

Then, with the cold weather turning warm, the daylillies are coming up again, thinking it's spring! There's a peonie bush down the street that's in full bloom! But there's no global warming! ;-)

 

[coldspot66]

So....what's on the menu for Easter dinner?? LOL!!!!
How are you guys????????

 

[toggleswitch]

Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

I always wondered what triggeted the fall of leaves in that season. I assumed it was cooler temperatures and shoter periods of sunshine (shorter days).

I was amazed to learn that bulbs like tulips etc. have to go in the refrigerator for a few month in Florida (and similar sub-tropical climates) in order to grow and bloom when finally planted into the earth.

Does this mean they won't automatically come up every year as they would in my location/climate?

 

[perc-o-prince]

Hey Steve

That's right, odds are they wouldn't. You can also "force" bulbs for blooming indoors any time of the year by keeping them cool and relatively dry for a while, then planting them in pots. Get 'em in the fridge now, and you might be able to have tulips on your Christmas table!!!

Chuck

 

[bobbyderegis]

Hey Rich! Long time no talk. The lilies are beautiful. Did they come from family or did you pinch them?
Bobby in Boston

 

[perc-o-prince]

PINCHED

Well, appropriated from the "left for dead" pile by none other than me, Chuck, while I was having my blood pressure and cholesterol lowering walk!

 

[perc-o-prince]

So....what's on the menu for Easter dinner?? LOL!!!!

Hey John! Tacos! Old El Paso strikes again! I use about 1/2# more beef than they call for. Then, I just use the lower salt seasoning mix for a pound, and add some more chili, onion and garlic powders! Oh yeah... instead of the water they call for? Use red wine!

Chuck

 

[toggleswitch]

A little chicken broth does wonders.............

Tacos?
Perhaps ground lamb is more traditional for that holiday than ground beef.

I always saute a diced onion in a 1/4 cup olive oil and use 1/2 the seasoning packet per meal and load of chopped meat) to cut the spice and salt level and sweeten-up the works. I find that 1/2 beef and 1/2 chicken or turkey is just as good and less fatty.

The other night the nieces complimented me on my taco soup. I often go to babysit and make a meal out of leftovers found in their fridge. So my sister and I had a good laugh that the soup was a unique one-of-a kind deal, never again to be duplicated. LOL

My sister gets a meal envisioned and buys groceries to suit. I see what I have available and, like Midas, attempt to make gold of it!

The wine instead of water TE HE HE HE ...so Biblical! AND it therapeutic and otherwose healty...literally!

 

[selectomatic]

My family always has Lasagna on easter.

There's no tradition like a new tradition, especially if everyone likes it!

-kevin

 

[bobbyderegis]

Hee hee hee!
Bobby in Boston

 

[xyz]

Well I have some Dirtweed over in the corner and i have some columbian by the window. But the Northern Lights are endo not outdoors.

 

[Maytagmom]

Dirtweed & Columbian????

Does anyone have any rolling papers....LMAO

Sorry....couldn't resist