Newsletter post: Wild turkeys, cover crops, yard art with chickens and rainy day walks

Greetings from Larrapin Garden and welcome to the newsletter post.

Let me start with a tangent and say that “Cutting Celery” is something I will definitely grow again next year. It’s a celery usually grown for leaves rather than stems and unlike the celery that we get at the store, will grow well here. I picked it up as a pretty seedling at the farmers market out of curiosity. Since then I find myself going out to snip stems and leaves whenever I need some celery in the kitchen and there is none. Which is often for me for some reason. Cutting celery came in as a surprise workhorse in the garden this year.

If you are looking for celery flavor for soups and dishes, this stuff is great.  The stems are very slim and quite pungent — might not be very effective to use as a dipper for anything, but they are tasty chopped into tuna salads, etc. It’s slow to start from seed (per this seed site), and likes a lot of water in the garden (which was no problem for me this summer) but otherwise was pretty darn easy.

So cutting celery, or leaf celery, is going on the “remember to plant” list next year. I’m really going to make a list, because I honestly forgot to plant some things this year that I’d intended to, like sunflowers. Anyway, if I do forget cutting celery, I do have lovage planted, which besides being somewhat medicinal, can stand in for celery in some cases too. And comes back on its own which is handy for me.

But mainly this newsletter is to invite you to come read some recent posts at Larrapin Garden Blog! Let me  apologize for the random posts the computer sent out last week. I was doing some work on the blog and why it decided to pick some old posts and send them out, I’ll never know. But it’s fixed now.

Since you last received a newsletter, I’ve posted random musings about cover crops, wild turkeys, yard art I covet, an easy and free way to make seedling markers, as well as a rainy day photo walk around the field beside the woods. I hope you’ll visit and here’s the link:  A Larrapin Garden Blog.

with love,

Leigh from Larrapin Garden

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