I've been getting a few peas and okra from the garden each day or 3, tossing em into a freezer bag and into the freezer. A few grape and/or "Tommy toe" tomatoes which I usually gobble straight off the vine. There are a couple more what the grocery calls "personal" watermelons (I call em "bowling ball") that may make edible size before Autumn goes into Winter. This morning I pulled up 3 radishes, et them and gave the greens to the quack pack.
The folks at the corner are moving or have moved. At any rate yesterday I saw a slew of yucca cuttings and some magnolia limbs. Naturally I fetched em home. The limbs went into the swamp until I have time to cut em up into smaller pieces and send em back into the swamp to decompose and become better fill material. The yucca went into becoming part of my privacy/security border.
Also tother day I was channel surfing and saw Bobby Flay was cooking something using yucca root which I didn't know was edible. By the time I tuned in he'd already finished w/ the root so I missed his recipe but I'll be looking for the plant aka "Spanish dagger". I don't know if it's true or not but I want to say I heard years ago that even more years ago the Native Americans used the flowers like shampoo. No idea if they got a good head of lather or not.
On a similar note to the yucca I'm keeping my eyes peeled for palmetto. When I worked at the zoo there was 1 in the alligator exhibit that nigh needed its own ZIP code! The zoo is where I got my 1st banana tree shoots back some 15+ years ago but never managed to get any palmetto to grow.
The leaves are turning color and starting to fall. I'll be out there trucking em home for compost along w/ anything else I see a use for here.
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