Ann's Air Gardens

Today's Goodness from the Garden

Cabbage, onion, sweet peppers, and apple slaw, tossed in tartar sauce plus today's healthy harvest of greens and yellow flowers, and a dash of Creole seasoning.

 

Thai Basil is full of antioxidants and other nutrients believed to ward off bad bacteria, viruses, fungus, and more.

Onion scapes  are high in vitamins A and K and similar in nutrition to chives although chives have more folate and calcium. 

Mustard Greens that grow wild in the desert annoy most people around here to no end, but I love them.  They grow tall and provide shade to my smaller plants and privacy along the fence. When very young they give a tasty bite to soup and salad.

Mallow leaves from a copper narrowleaf globe mallow that volunteered to spring up in my garden are believed to have amazing medicinal value.

Purslane flowers are pretty, but also edible and nutritious. 

Forgot to add more black pepper.  

Amaranth Volunteer

One of the most exciting things about gardening is having a useful plant springing up out of who knows where.  This is white Amaranth.  

It is similar to Mediterranean Amaranth (  Amaranthus graecizans  ) aka pigweed.

 

Grow Log: Helianthus tuberosis Stampede

Grow Log: Helianthus tuberosis Beaver Valley°

Grow logs: Malabar Spinach

 

Malabar Spinach Returns

Very Exciting

 

 

 

Grow Logs: A Little Lost

Maybe it is because I'm doing this on a Samsung tablet , but I cannot get into the page called "Glossary" that is in progress On my air Garden Blog, so I looked and all of my grow logs are missing.

 

 So until I have time to check it out I will just add some of them here, with the notation "Grow Log" at the top.

 In a large Blue pot is elephant bush (Portulacaria afra). Left in the small blue pot Is a rainbow elephant bush (Portulacaria afra 'variegata').

 Started it from a stem cutting March 6, 2021. It grows nicely together with Malabar spinach.

 

 

 

 

 

Hedge Turnip is a Tasty "Weed"

In progress.

 

Can I make this shunned weed legal?  Someone needs to.

Giloy is My New Best Friend

Sad Looking Jute

Jute (aka Eqyptian Spinach) seeds sprout overnight but the seedlings are tiny and can take months to get big enough to eat.  When they do start flowering the plants will quickly bolt, so I like to take cuttings before that happens in order to get more plants in a shorter time.

 

  Diminutive flowers are edible as well as attractive.  As long as I keep picking them off to eat, new flowers will keep coming.  If I miss some, they will turn into tiny pods which are tasty and nutritious when they are small and tender.

 

 

  This may look deader than a doornail just a few minutes after the stem is cut, but by morning it will be completely recovered and in a week or so it will have viable roots.  The parent plant will then branch out instead of continuing to grow straight up on a single stem.  

Tradescantia pallida

Tradescantia pallida 'purpurea' is a handsome and robust plant that can be grown in a pot outdoors in Southern California year round.  

 

A spiderwort commonly known as purple heart, it is related to zebrina and spider lily. 

These cuttings were given to me by a very good friend and I plan to root them in water. 

UPDATE:  2 of my 3 cuttings taken on August 18 have tiny roots already on August 31  (13 days)