Okra or Abelmoschus esculentusis is in the same family as cotton, hollyhocks and hibiscus. Its blooms resemble hibiscus flowers, the okra plant itself can be a striking ornamental specimen and okra pods are good to eat. Since the 12th and 13th centuries, this tropical plant has been grown as an annual or perennial vegetable in the Arabian and eastern Mediterranean areas as well as Egypt, Greece, north Africa and west Asia. It spread to Brazil in the 1600s and arrived in the United States in the 1700s.
Staff writer When Martha Hewett teaches high school students how to cook, she never gets to rhubarb, a perennial vegetable that a few generations ago occupied a small spot in many kitchen gardens.
All-America Selections announced six 2010 winners in the flower, bedding plant and vegetable categories. It has provided gardeners with reliable information concerning new varieties of perennial, annual and vegetable plants since 1932. What makes the selection reliable winners are the dedication to research and ability to assimilate information gathered by test sites such as botanic gardens throughout North America. When a gardener purchases a plant with the All-American Selections designation, he knows the plant has been tested in diverse soils, climates and growing conditions, and has been judged worthy of introduction to home gardeners.
Centreville resident David Yost arms himself with handfuls of yellow granules to avoid a more physical battle with the weeds that, if given the chance, would pop up in his gardens. Mr. Yost sprinkles the corn gluten, a byproduct of processing cornstarch, on his perennial and vegetable gardens every two months from spring to fall. The organic herbicide takes care of 90 percent of his weeds, he says, and he hand-pulls and uses herbicides to remove the rest.
SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET One of the first crops to emerge each spring, asparagus (Asparagus officinalis, a member of the lily family) is a perennial vegetable that can sometimes be found in the wild -- either because it self-seeded or escaped from cultivation. It grows along ditch banks all over New Mexico, in irrigated fields or in orchards.
The sweet-tart burst of flavor in favorite rhubarb dishes makes this perennial vegetable a springtime favorite. Fortunately, if you have a square yard or two of space in your garden, you can harvest enough rhubarb in spring and early summer to satisfy all your rhubarb cravings -- and probably those of your friends and family as well. It grows so prolifically in our region's springtime climate that it can sometimes overtake a garden plot.
My husband dropped our chainsaw off for service last weekend. As my son and I sat in the car waiting for his return, I eyeballed at least nine different stacks of bagged mulch products lining the sidewalk in front of the store. Then I looked across the street to the gas station. Beneath the sign declaring unleaded to be a wallet- busting $3.35 was another sign that said "Red Cypress Mulch: 4 bags for $10." One of my favorite local nurseries has three different steaming piles of mulch they'll deliver via truck to your driveway; plus they've got another eight kinds of bagged mulch products. How the heck do you know what to buy? And what are we really getting when we buy four bags for $10? Is there such a thing as bad mulch? Technically, mulch is defined as any product applied to the soil'...
The frost has come, the vegetable garden is cleaned out, and perennial gardens have been cut back. We still have leaves to rake and a few other outdoor chores, but this growing season is over. I'm a bit sadder than normal, I think, for a number of reasons. The vegetable garden was good this year, producing a lot of tasty fruit and vegetables, although not perfect. The flowers bloomed early and profusely. And the rest of the news - a drawn-out political campaign, a tanking economy with many layoffs locally and nationally, and volatile fuel prices - was dreadful, making the garden more than ever a wonderful escape from the daily grind.
Harvesting seeds can be an adventure for the entire family, from preserving endangered plants to collecting seeds from your garden, the wild or a friend. Our ancestors passed perennial, annual and vegetable seeds from one generation to another, but the exchange of seeds has almost become a thing of the past. If you admire a perennial in a Master Gardener's garden, he may hand you a dried seedpod.
BLUE HILL -The Blue Hill Public Library will hold a plant sale on the library lawn from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 23. Perennial divisions, vegetable and flower seedlings, soft fruit canes, shrubs, trees and house plants donated by library friends and patrons will be for sale along with baked goods, drinks and used gardening books. Potted and labeled plant donations may be left until Friday, May 22, on the lawn by the library doors leading to the parking lot. All proceeds benefit the library, which is located in the center of Blue Hill.
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