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This yellow flower will eventually turn into a delicious green cucumber. They are growing at the House of Blue Flowers in Rock Garden, Alcoa, Tennessee.Related content
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Many thanks, indeed.
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You´re so welcome .
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Many thanks, my friend. The cukes this made were delicious.
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Looks beautiful!
Did you realize that many vegetable plants have really beautiful blooms?
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I love my garden blooms. Okra has very lovely flowers...
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Ah. Coriander. Also known as Cilantro, before it flowers. I love coriander. Very fragrant and tasty herb, that one. I use the leaves in all my traditional Mexican cooking. The seeds I grind up and put in meat stews. Very yummy. Now, another herb that has beautiful flowers is fern leaf dill. I grow this for my pickles. It has these beautiful tiny yellow blooms that smell like kosher spears. Nom and nom.
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Well, I grew them this year for the first time. I wanted to try to use their leaves in my cooking
since there isn't any other way to get them here around. There's only the chance use seeds.
I really wonder if I get any seeds out of my plants or if the summer turns out to be too short for them.
Our potatoes had nice blooms too, but they went away way rather quickly since we had some trouble
with snails this year. (I didn't know they liked to eat potato leaves either. 
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All you have to do is let them bloom, and the blooms will go to seed shortly afterwards. Our problem here is getting the leaves before the flowers come out. After the blossoms appear, they replace the leaves. THe growing season for Cilantro is short.
Snails will eat the leaves off everything in your garden, just like slugs will do. They are easily thwarted, however. Just plant marigolds and mints. The marigolds make beautiful yellow flowers and the mints make leaves for tea. Slugs and snails cannot stand the smell and seek easier pickings elsewhere.
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Well, what I meant if the time will be enough for the seeds to be ripe enough for use in the kitchen.
Well, the snails in our garden ate peppermint leaves, too. I've got to keep the thing with the marigolds in mind,
and I might even sew some as we've got some room now after harvesting our potatoes.
The snails don't seem to like lavendel, rosmarin and our oregano plants.
Only thing helped was to pick them up and remove them from the garden as far as possible.
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In Tennessee, coriander ripens very quickly, so much so that, when the plant starts to flower, you must check it daily. I usually cut the blooms off so it will make more leaves first. Then, near the end of the season, I let it flower. The seeds can be harvested and dried for the winter. Some I put back for the next planting. I keep those in sealed bags for the hardening tray.
Holy crap. Mint eating snails. Whoa... You are right about the other herbs chasing them off. I grow all the ones you mention, and indeed, there are no varmints or pests in my garden at all. however, the worms are sure to come. I have already seen signs where they have been eating on the okra and peppers. I hate using pesticides, but about once a month, I have to apply a solution of Eight to the soil around the roots. Akkkkk.
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I see, but I don't think the summers here in Germany are that hot, although we had bout of some nice hot days last weekend/week with up to 38 degrees of Celsius.
Hmm, yeah, they ate some of my newly planted peppermint and Moroccan mint, but not all that much. Seems like the needed some fresh breath.
I don't like to use pesticides either, but sometimes you have little choice. Though, I think there's many an alternative for them that is less harmful but
works all the same. I've heard that you can use stinging nettles and some other wild herbs in this way.
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You do indeed have a shorter growing season in Germany than we have in Tennessee. There are about eight months of warm weather each year, with a lot of rainfall. Also, the ground has many natural subterranean aquifers, so the green things grow even during dry spells, with the water table being close to the top soil level in the valleys. It is very easy to grow a garden here. A little fertilizer, and some loving care, and BOOM. Yummy veggies.
Many flowering plants chase of pests from your garden, among them are mums, merigolds, thistles, lavender, rosemary, oregano, thyme, catnip, and a host of others. Many of these are growing in my garden. I do not have to use a lot of pesticide chemicals, though, like I have already noted, I have to deal with "the worms" when they come. Hopefully, there will be enough spiders around by then to help me out with that problem...
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That sounds like an awesome place for gardening.
I think I may have some seeds yet as there are already green seedlings on my coriander plant.
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I detect some good cooking in your kitchen.
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Sometimes there is. I love using lots of different spices and all, but I really aren't using any recipies when I cook.
Tend to do sometimes some crazy stuff like mixing different styles and so on.
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If you say so. I happened to mix italien and asien cuisine for example ...
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I prefer Mexican over all else. I do enjoy other country cuisine like Italian, German, and Amish. I really am a see food dieter. If I see food, I eat it.
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I see. I kinda prefer Asien actually, mixed with everything else I can think of.
What taste Amish food like?
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It is similar to Bavarian. Very fine home cooking.
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Sounds interesting. Do they have have Knoedel too?
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Yes, they have that. Many kinds of dumplings are enjoyed by Amish people.
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Sounds very tasty. I assume the have also various kinds of stews, right?
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