The catnip, catmint and cat grass got a repot today
and of course Mr sat and supervised the whole procedure. After getting a morsel
of the nip he flopped himself down beside the cage and sunned himself happily. I’m
still waiting for them to have a really good growth spurt but one pot seems to
be taking off so I will just have to be patient. Pots of melons and luffa sit
lined up in the second run, after the hail we had a week or so ago a couple
took a turn for the worse so I popped them in there to get some protection
until they get a little stronger.A few days ago while having a wander around I decided to have a pre-salad nibble on some of the edible flowers I have been growing. Borage flowers are lovely, a very refreshing flavour similar to cucumber...the leaves picked while small are still prickly but sliced thinly and added to a salad would be very nice. The nasturtium flowers and small leaves were quite peppery but reminded me of a radish taste, quite strong but as long as your salad wasn’t overwhelmed by them they would make a lovely addition. I haven’t tried the calendula flowers yet because they just look too pretty but once the salad greens get cracking I will have to sacrifice some for the sake of a delightful dinner. Tonight I had a huge pile of steamed bright lights with a couple of slices of fresh wheatmeal bread to soak up all the juice...it was delicious! The jack-be-little’s now have 3-4 little fruit on each one and finally the parsnips have shown themselves, among a ton of weeds I will need to remove shortly. I think I may even have a passionfruit in my castaway box too so it’s rather exciting!
