Market Report for May 27, 2016

What a beautiful holiday weekend Friday night for the Toledo Farmers’ Market. The vendors were ready along with the huge crowd for the market to start.

Kristi had a table full of assorted bakery. Love those cinnamon rolls. Vernon and Wilma had eggs and more eggs. Darold was set up with bags of lettuce mix, radishes, kale, and spinach. Shirley and Michael had her good Czech bakery along with cookies. Chuck and Ginger were under their tree with rhubarb, radishes, lettuce, kohlrabi, asparagus, green onions, popcorn, dried pepper powder, and an assortment of bakery. Dawn works fast setting up her table with asparagus, radishes, houseplants, jams, jellies, dried herbs, tiki torches, dried beans, soup mixes, an assortment of breads and cake stands made from recycled glassware.

Sheryl had a large assortment of ceramics’ love those school themed football lights, scrubbies, beautiful homemade towels, and potholders.

My Mothers Place was new this week with kolaches, salted nut rolls, brownies, cupcakes, and bars. Joe and Barb had bok Choy, lettuce, asparagus, green onions, dried peppers, assortment of breads and some melt in your mouth sugar high pecan praline snacks. Karen was there with her soy candles and products. She will not be there next week. Kathy was back with her table full of delicious bakery, bars, snack mixes, rolls, nut coils which are delicious, and kolaches. And holding up the north end was Nancy and Tom with an assortment of frozen buffalo meat. Hope everyone had a fun safe holiday weekend.

Weeds, weeds and more weeds, they are immerging fast. Last night I tilled up more rows that never germinated. I have talked to a few people that are having the same issue. Poor germination, I think I planted way too early and the seeds sat in the cold ground to long. But I got the fever like everyone else when the warm weather graced us. I need to get the weeding done and the rest of the seeds put in the ground. Then the magic begins and things start to grow, along with the weeds.

Many people ask me how one has a garden without weeds. My reply is it is called muscles and sweat. No, they want a garden without weeds and done with magic. I don’t have an answer for you folks.

Muscle and sweat it does the body good. Some of those weeds are edible. Would you like a salad with sour dock, or maybe some dandelion greens? If you don’t like the dandelion greens there is always dandelion wine. Cook up some lamb’s quarters, purslane, dandelion crowns, and toss with bacon grease. Now that sounds tasty.

Happy gardening,. or should I say weedin.