Red sunshine

We ordered a bunch of seeds from a FedCo Catalog and I was impressed. We had three varieties or more of sunflowers including this deep red flower. I have yet to learn which ones are edible or better wildlife food, though they seem to all be swarming with bees.

Fava: to cover or not to cover?

Plant fava in the fall and eat the beans by spring. There are two types of fava, edible and forage cover crop. The beans are a lot of work: pick, shell, boil, re-shell, re-cook, add garlic and olive oil. They are the main ingredient for one of my favorite Mediterranean dishes, ful mudammes.

Move over, plants coming through!

We picked up our starts a couple weeks ago from my friend Angie's greenhouse. The plants filled the trunk... Any more and someone would be walking home! I am fortunate that the baby puts up with my plant addiction.