Mary Stetler
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I have had a terrible growing time this year. It was way too cold in the spring and then we had a drought after a soggy start. Two crops of beans were decimated by critters. I seem to be getting some cukes and squash fighting to come through and I have a WATERMELON plant doing well despite everything. We do eat lambs quarters, nettle, purslane, mallow, amaranth and other weeds but many of the weeds we don't eat have not helped and love our fertile soil. We do wild food dinners to teach people about free nutritious food that are fun to forage and we have a bumper crop of milkweed--will harvest the young pods and freeze them to enter with a casserole for our September dinner. Daughter scored a large amount of golden oyster mushrooms to add to it while out hiking.
I eat as much as I can and have pickled enough for the year. Now it is time to deal with a variety of peppers.