menu for June 22nd, 2024

Sayuri's note 

When l first started living here 25 years ago, it was hard to get garlic chives for making gyoza dumplings or soup. It took almost 4 hours to drive to Atlanta and back just to buy them, so I decided to plant them in the garden. A couple years ago, I learned that when transplanting tomatoes and garlic chives together, garlic chive roots grow downwards, intertwining with the tomato roots and helping to reduce disease in the tomato plants. When you eat garlic chives, they help maintain your energy longer, so they are said to be a stamina vegetable. I heard that many marathon runners in Japan eat lots of garlic chives. Hopefully they will help you survive the marathon heat wave! 

We planted potatoes on April 20th this year. It was later than usual, but already two months later, we have baby new potatoes (June 20th was the summer solstice).  We've never seen deer eating potato plants before, but they have munched the tops of the potato plants this year. 

Just imagine when you eat dinner today, you are canoeing in a zucchini boat on the Etowah River and exploring around the mountains. Cold river water will make you feel refreshed like lemon cake with ice cream and blueberries!

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