I had brought the nephew over to swim so he helped me cut the stalks I couldn't reach....
Pretty meager for our 1st harvest but it's a start.....
I've never picked anything this early in the growing season but the extra warm weather all of June has hurried things along in the garden this year. This is my first year growing Collards.
The smallest of the leaves was well over 18 inches long.
I had bought a bag of Collards to augment this batch since I knew I wouldn't have enough to cook a whole pot this time. They were mighty good and if the bugs don't eat too much before I need to pick them again, I'll have another large pot worth to cook.
My mom loved her some collards. My father hated the smell so she was forced to wait until he went out of town on business overnight to cook them. She cooked them old school with fatback, potatoes and cornmeal dumplings, like her mother had fixed them. I never developed a taste for cornmeal dumplings so I cook them with bacon inside of fatback and leave out the potatoes too.
I saw Paula Deen make fried wontons stuffed with cream cheese and collards a couple of weeks ago. Now the frying part makes me drool but collards and cream cheese?!?!
Doesn't quite sound right to me.....lol
So what has your garden produced this week?
Sluggy
