Re: [gardeners] Ponderosa Lemons

penny x stamm (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:55:30 -0500 

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Hi there, Allen! 

I'm knee deep in onions, too -- there are seven 5-inch pots on my
kitchen counter, taking up an enormous amount of room, with a
great big pointsettia, a glass of rooting sweet potato vine clippings,
a stew pot filled with potting soil, and the covered compost bucket.
Absolutely NO room for the cook..!

How did I get in this pickle...? Well, I dug 'em up out of the garden
about 3 weeks ago, figuring that I would nurture them for cooking use
during the winter. Crazy idea...  It's made worse by the fact that I have
twelve 4-inch pots of annual seedlings which are getting gigantic and
flowering all over the place across the window sill. I have to move
everything in order to raise or lower the venetian blinds each day and
I keep cussing myself out -- bet you can hear me!

I brought in 2 walking onions, 2 chives, and 3 garlic chives. Then I
got to talking at the last Master Gardener's meeting and I was told that 
I should have left them in the ground over the winter.. Really..??? Oh, 
they said, they will NEVER do well on the kitchen counter!  But you
should
see them -- they're absolutely flourishing. The more you cut them, the
more they will grow, I was told. Do you agree...? 

It's about 25* outside at night, windchill making it 14*, but inside with
the 
blind down all night it remains a pretty constant 58*at the window.  
During the day it warms up about 10*. 

Can't I clip them and freeze them for cooking? Seems to me that George
does...   

The Girl Scouts wanted to set up an appointment to come see my 
vegetable garden next summer, but I don't have a vegetable garden,
Jimmie does. When he feels like it. I have 9 flower beds to take care of,
instead.  Jim's the kind of gardener who grows head lettuce under a
beach umbrella in July. And when he sends me out to harvest his
stuff, I eat up the entire crop, right there in the garden. Cannot
resist.
The only thing that's ever made it into the kitchen were the cukes -- and
they had an Eastern States virus so they all bent in the middle and
grew upwards, like a boomerang.  I even eat the scallions up!  And of
course, the Sweet 100s. And ALWAYS the raspberries. I think Disney
ought to make a movie out of our efforts..

It's sleeting here, brrrr...  Does anyone have a good recipe for a hearty
minestrone-type soup..? 

Penny, NY
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