Lyn's Licks & Laughs...with alter egos Bobbie Cole & Sunny

Ole McSunny has a farm
Eee I Eee I Oy.

A few days ago, I thought boy, I’d sure like to have a garden this year. I wanted herbs and flowers, tons of vegetables, some sunflowers that would bear great seeds for roasting. So I bought seed, peat pots, potting soil, and I did some planting to get some starter plants. My mistake was in thinking that it’d take a couple of weeks for anything to sprout.

Less than a week later, and I’ve used up every plastic dish, every cake pan that had so much as a scratch, what little egg cartons I’d saved for this purpose, and old coffee containers. Every ingredient that could fit into a plastic baggie was dumped so I could use the receptacle for potting plants. And the shit is GROWING – QUICKLY! It’s rained for days, and I have no tiller yet. Come to find out, we must’ve left the new shovel I’d purchased when we moved two autumns ago. That leaves good ole Sunny begging butter bowls from neighbors and repotting flowers in order to free up their containers.

The squash is about 6” tall as I type. The onions have organized a union and are demanding a trough of their own. I heard the tomatoes plotting to reach the French doors and let in the squirrels and rabbits to help with de-populizing the mesclun, leafy lettuce, and iceberg lettuce.

The peppers were smart, I guess – they’ve said screw it and have refused to sprout until everyone else is planted firmly in the ground.

What does a girl do when the weather refuses to cooperate? She cooks. You can find what I’ve been up to at Lyn's Licks & Laughs Recipes .

Have a good week, everybody. Share if you have a really good veggie dish recipe. I’ll introduce it to my veggies in another month or so. *grin*