I went to check on the fields and took some pics today. These are plants I had to start over from the Selnes disaster. I'm pretty please concidering they weren't planted until July. When I planted these new plants at my friends field, i choose a spot that had not been planted in. Before i could plant there was serious ground work to be done. So they were delayed even more. But here they are, the peas The beans And the kålrabi, or i think is rutabegas and swedes. They still haven't flowered yet, but I think they might have a chance. The beets in front, i'm not so sure about. If they can do some serious growing in the next month, then we will also have beets for the winter. Theres 6 rows of beets. The potatos all have flowers on them, the onions are doing well, the parsnips are starting to show signs of life. So all is good so far on the borrowed farm.
Fingers crossed for good weather up your way during the rest of August and September, so you can get a proper crop. Well done!
kalorbi is one of my childhood memory foods! Mom used to slice it thin and we put it on peanut butter sandwiches. Try it, it is really good comfort food!
Thanks all, I sure hope we have alot of warm weather left up here. My plants need it! Buda, if your thinking of the kalorabi in America that is green and kind of tart,hot, this isn't the same thing. This is also known as rutabega, you know down south, when you go to the grocery store and see those huge purple and orange round roots, that are usually coated in wax,,yuck,,next to all the turnips and greens,,,,thats what norwegians call kålrabi. If you mean those green roots with the shoots that come out the sides and go straight up,,,i love them too! Haven't seen none here tho. At least up this way.
The replants are all looking really good. Probably a good thing that this harvest is delayed...dealing with beets and blueberries at the same time could be a decorators nightmare :-D :-D Are you two talking about Kohlrabi? That's the green round root with shoots coming off all sides that you find in the stores here...in the cabbage family. Don't know how to cook or prepare one but am interested in trying. Beets...is a winter without beets really such a bad thing??
Maybe I should of put KÃ¥lrot instead of KÃ¥lrabi,,lol. The english call them swedes, the africans and americans call them rutabega,,they come from africa i think. But they are orange in the color of the root. The other root known as kahlorabi or something like that is green. I really like those too. I used to eat those raw and they had a kind of a hotness to them. Or they are great used just like carrots or turnips, chopped up and put in stews or with mashed potatoes, or roasted. very good. The KÃ¥lrot can be done the same way also or made into a mashed up potatos like way. very good also. Toni: I would be very patriotic on both sides of the world...lol. Red, white and blue. American and Norwegian flag colors. And beets (gasp) I'm skandinavian, every skandinavian has to have at least one jar of pickled beets in the house,,lol. We love them! Traveling, my son is in Iraq, and he said all they get is the dried up peas out of the can... he can't wait to get back to mom's cooking. Too bad you can't grow them. I love peas too! Geez i just love fresh veggies!
Biita I know what your talking about. Rutabegas to me are so very good.I can eat beets not my favorite.I planted Kohlrabi once they grew so big looked so weird growing.I did not care for them .They tasted really different.I'm not sure I prepared them right.Have you every grown jicamas?(pronounced hicama.)They are a Mexican potato oh so good raw with dip i,put in salads .They taste like a mild turnip. I'm glad your garden is going to yield veggies for you.You may get a huge yield after all.
I'll have to get Kohlrabi when I find them at the store and try it several different ways. Sliced up in a salad, added to mashed potatoes and in a stew....see which, if any, the family likes. Rutabega's I have tried and like turnips, I don't care for them.
The rutabegas are best when made into mash. It's a must for Christmas dinner along with red and white sauerkraut, or served with potato balls, a greyish not very delicate-looking dinner we have once a week or so.
Thanks all,, I love kålrot mash with lutefisk, or any fish for that matter,,lol. do you mean Raspbollar (spelling) droopy? We don't have that, that often. just now and then. I think thats one potato food i'm not to fond of,,lol. Theres not many tho.
Yes, that's exactly what I mean. Raspeball. We call them potetball, but it's the same grey goo. I prefer them with bacon, melted butter, veggies, rutabega mash, sausages or dried pig sausage (svinemør, you know?) and some syrup on top. Anything to not taste the meal itself.
Your veg is looking pretty good. Those broiad beans seem not tohave many flowers, though. Have you already harvested some from them?
