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beehammerSo the gardening experiment continues apace. Unfortunately, I've reached that stage with a few of the plants where I have no real idea what I'm going to do with them for the next few weeks. Like I have about a dozen okra plants, all of which were started at the same time, but due to the vagaries of nature none of which are the same size or producing the same number of blossoms, etc. Same deal with the asparagus beans, really--about a half-dozen are climbing all over everything and another dozen are still trying to figure out how trellises work.
Now, if you have three ripe tomatoes or one ripe strawberry or a teensy bit of parsley or one bunch of mustard greens, this is fine. You just... eat the three tomatoes or the lone strawberry or the teensy bit of parsley or the single bunch of mustard greens and move on with your day. Eventually the rest of the plants catch up and begin producing in earnest, and you get enough strawberries for dessert or enough tomatoes for a sauce, but in the meantime it's no big. You just do your thing.
What in the name of god do you do with a single ripe okra pod?
(Aside from be disappointed, I mean.)
Like, am I going to use it to thicken the world's smallest batch of soup? Oil and season it and throw it on a baking sheet with a reasonable number of veggie tots? Buy a half-pound of okra from the store and play "Guess which one grew here"?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Now, if you have three ripe tomatoes or one ripe strawberry or a teensy bit of parsley or one bunch of mustard greens, this is fine. You just... eat the three tomatoes or the lone strawberry or the teensy bit of parsley or the single bunch of mustard greens and move on with your day. Eventually the rest of the plants catch up and begin producing in earnest, and you get enough strawberries for dessert or enough tomatoes for a sauce, but in the meantime it's no big. You just do your thing.
What in the name of god do you do with a single ripe okra pod?
(Aside from be disappointed, I mean.)
Like, am I going to use it to thicken the world's smallest batch of soup? Oil and season it and throw it on a baking sheet with a reasonable number of veggie tots? Buy a half-pound of okra from the store and play "Guess which one grew here"?
Inquiring minds want to know.
