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Garden Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette

PostPosted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:59 pm
by BullDog
That's what my guys got for dinner tonight... with a Cuttlebone chaser ;)

Summer means fresh garden veg. They both love the green and red leaf lettuce, fresh out of the ground. Ralph even eats the stem!!!

Gave them each a raspberry too - interesting reactions to them. Frankie seemed interested, took a bite, studied it for a minute, then went looking for more lettuce.
Ralph (once he noticed it) seemed pretty keen on the first half of the berry, then got bored and went back to his rock :P

Seems their not big on the raspberries... Oh well, more for me! ;)

I love the "fruits of summer" :D

PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:48 am
by mzkitty23
*sigh*

sounds fun...i wish mine would eat it!

PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:03 am
by TheComputerGremlin
Oh how I miss having a garden!! Being in an apartment, I haven't had the opportunity to have a garden, but as soon as I get a house, I am going to have a gorgeous garden, with squash and tomatoes and peppers and strawberries and ...

PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:12 am
by corey7144
We have too many trees in our backyard casting shade to grow anything.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:16 pm
by Chrisbarnett
Awesome.

My mom has a garden and all but she's growing sugar snap pees, cucumbers, Tomatoes(2 varieties) and strawberries.

So I will give Squirt a strawberry as a treat one of these days, maybe a tomato sliver too. I still need to look up whether pees are okay to feed to turts. :wink:

PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:37 pm
by BullDog
Lettuce is pretty easy to grow - You could probably do it in one of those long window box planters :) We get a mix of seeds, so as well as red and green leaf, there is some fancy types too. Although now it's a bit late in the season to start. It prefers cooler weather.

I do believe peas are on the "not too often" list. I've tried sugar peas with Ralph once, but he wasn't keen on them.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:01 pm
by scripta_elegans
I like growing water plants outsdie for the kids. I kill most things that would go into the ground, but water weeds love me!

PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:07 pm
by BullDog
I'm trying my hand at water plants the first time this year!
I bought 4 water hyacinth a while back, fed one to the turts, and put the rest outside in a bucket. They've done quite well, and I've already fed the turts another shoot each.
But I think they were getting too much sun, since some of the leaves were burnt.
So just this week I transfered them to a nice big pot (plugged the hole with good ol' aquarium silicon), and added small fountain pump that wasn't being used. They're looking better already :)

PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:11 pm
by scripta_elegans
cool! I would love to grow those again, but the racoons eat them!