Hey everyone!

I just found this site this weekend, and I heard that "this" was the place to be.

I figure we all have gardening in common, that is cool! Im a relatively new mommy (9 month old!) and have been mostly on baby related sites, and recently I remembered there was more to me than just staying at home with no other grown ups...(well besides my mother in law that is )

So I wanted to say hi before I started jumping on threads and you all wondered who I was! And yes I grow asparagus! I love it because it comes out of the ground ready to serve, and my husband will actually eat it!

--Karen

Hi, Karen!
Glad you made it!

Man, I love asparagus!

Sooo glad to see you in the Banter Hall!

Cindy Faye

hi Karen,

welcome

I love my asparagus too!!!!And you have a baby.How wonderful.

Please,could ya put that sweet smell in a bottle and send it out to me?

hi there! welcome to the forum! you're gonna love it here! just jump in anywhere and just start chattin' we talk about anything (and everything lol!)in here!

Here is a fun fact about my asparagus patch...last summer when I was pregnant, I couldnt eat the stuff. Not that it made me sick, but for some reason I just had an aversion to it. So I let it all grow instead of harvesting it, and because of that, we had SOOOO much of it this year!

It just looks like a huge green fuzz ball now. I cant wait for it to be fall and winter when it turns golden, KWIM?

Fall....I feel like it's never gonna get here!!!

Thanks for the welcome!

-Karen

Mmmmm, ASPARAGUS!!! One of my favorites! You can stay on this forum IF you send us ALL some!

Welcome to the garden helper addicts anonymous.. oh wait.. wrong name.. Umm. the garden helper forum!

I don't like asparagus. I had an incident when I was little. *blech*

But that doesn't mean we all can't be friends, and learn things from each other, right?

Meg

Looooooove asparagus!

I do not love the smell it leaves behind - :p
if you know what I mean!!!

Welcome to the forums, and tell us more about your gardening?

hi karen, glad you're here, sounds like you are going to fit in just fine! of course, we have few karens, a couple of cindy's, a couple of jennifers, and so on, so 'sparagus works great! and most of us are moms (or dads) and have had that 9 mo old to spin our worlds around... cindy-afgrey is right, enjoy it, that little baby you love so much will be a teenager you want to give a solid boot to, way too soon!

welcome Karen - I remember those 9 month times when you become so used to walking around with spit-up on you that you forget that normal people do not consider a burp cloth to be a fashion accessory. The time flies though and pretty soon they are 13 and embarassed when you cut their meat and try to feed them in public. The nerve!

I like asparagus on toast with melted cheese on top. Of course I like anything with melted cheese on top so that wasn't meant to be a recommendation.

Have any of you grown asparagus? It's so funny! It just comes out of the ground like someone stuck a whole spear in the dirt. And then if you let it grow, the top turns into a feathery fern and it gets about 5 feet tall!

Ok about what I grow. I live in a pretty suburb-y house with a good size back yard with a fence. I have a raised bed in there that's about 10x12 or so that has the asparagus, a gooseberry bush, and the rest is raspberry (which got eaten by Japanese beetles ). The gooseberry is cool, not many poeple have seen one before and I like to scare my friends by trying to get them to eat one!

Most of the other things I have are perennials that came with the house. When we moved in in '99, there were two clumps of Siberian Iris and one clump of daisies about this big *makes circle with arms*. Now I have them EVERYWHERE! I love to hack apart perennials to make more. Seems scary but makes 'em so happy! I also have a few roses that came with the house, I dont know much about them except that they love to be chopped too! They are all little roses: red, pepermint and almost white.

Because I had the lit'l one to cart around this spring I didnt get much done, but did manage some zinnias that are just now getting started cause I planted them so late. I am very proud of these morning glories called "flying saucers" which are big with blue and white stripes. I also planted some "heavenly blues" in almost total SHADE and they are now blooming beautifully and the flowers last really long because of that. I love breaking the rules!

What are you all growing?

-Karen

weeds and nut grass....

I remember making gooseberry jam with my grandmother when I was a girl visiting the ancestral home (old farm) on Prince Edward Island. I've never seen a gooseberry bush here.

Welcome to the forum Karen...

I'm with everyone on loving Asparagus but it sure isnt the same in Nebraska as it was in California. Miss the really good stuff.

Also with you on having a lil one to chase after. Our youngest is going to be a year at the beginning of November. Not a lot of time to garden with a virtual newborn in the spring. This year is a different story. He is walking now so will be able to toddle around the yard come springtime planting.

I have to say I am with meg -- NOT an asparagus eater The joyhood of being a parent.

Well liver is yucky, but hubby likes it and for some strange reason so do several of the kids. Makes me about ill just to smell it cooking though.

Hi all,

Mom tried to get me to eat asparugus that came in a can. It didn't happen.

Much later in life when I finally learned to cook and discovered that fruit and veggies are not born in a can I discovered they were pretty good.

Add a soft creamy cheese sauce and it's a rave. You know I think that may have just explained something. I started gaining way just as soon as I started becoming a good cook. lol.

Oh well, there is a cost to most good things I guess.

liver is yummy esp dredged in flour and sauteed in butter with onions and mushrooms. It was only yucky when mom was frying it up like shoe leather, but even then the dog liked it, and would have a feast as all the kids would sneak it to him. And, when you are newly married and have a grocery budget of $12 a week it's a great source of protein. Now it's just a source of cholesterol.

At least asparagus doesn't have cholesterol, except in the hollandaise sauce....

Are you feeling welcomed 'sparagus or do you feel like you've entered the hall of loonies?

You said it, Bev!!!
I always loved liver and onions, and chopped liver, but it's now on the NO-NO list.

I know! It's so cool!
First time I ever saw it growing I thought it was an alien lifeform surfacing!


Same here...I never made my daughter eat liver for that reason as well as there is NO way I could even cook liver now. I'm with Triss...it makes me sick just to smell it. :rolleyes:


Amen to that, hooper!
Asparagus in the can doesn't even taste like fresh asparagus. Same with peas. I can't even stand to smell canned peas (mom made me eat those, too) but I love fresh peas.





Oh, gross! That is just wrong!

I have always loved liver and onions and eat it right along. I don't burn mine up eat it rare it is better for you that way. don't care what the so called Ex-Perts say. Ex =former spert=drip under pressure . That makes all Experts former drips under pressure my thought about all Doctors.

Jimmy - you crack me up!!!

Cindy - Believe me, if it weren't a cultural food for us, I would never have tried it in a million years! My husband still won't go near it, and as I said, I'm not even allowed to cook it when he's around. I don't anyway since it's on the no-no list.

And I agree - canned veggies are just PeeeeeeUuuuuu! They don't smell right, don't appear right, don't feel right with their limpness (is that a word?!?

Ewwww Jimmy... rare is even worse than cooked! Dan does all his meat rare and it is just wrong. Meat needs to be brown not red!

AMEN to that, Triss!!!
I don't want to see my meat walking off my plate
when I'm about to spear it with my knife and fork, ya know? :p

I'm in nursing school and I feel the same way.

Meat should be rare enough to still tell the animal it came from and not ready for the shoe factory. It should be saying ouch when you spear it. Unless it's a parrot of course......

I think we really neeeeed to agree to disagree!
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! :p

Hey wait a minute, cockatiels are parrots, and my little feathery pal would not like that post

--karen
-am i too new to get in on the teasing??

nawwww, in fact being labeled a troublemaker is a good thing. You fit right in with the rest of us!

:p
Iguana stew sounds mighty tasty!

It is but not a tasty as a good fat cat. :p Love that meat Bar-B-que is best way. Just place on spit stick a Apricote in its mouth I also like to stuff with a Jalapeno dressing. then after it is done place on a stick dip in chocolate talk about goood ummmmMU almost as good as Chichuahua

Jimmy...you better be careful!

Next thing you know she'll be loading your PM box up just to get you in trouble.

'Sparagus I also have a Cocketiel as well as two lovebirds catlover knows all this but maybe I will try parrot later ......much much later . :p As long as my cat traps keep me in frsh meat I don't have to eat Parrot or Crow ether. Triss meat has to be red or I can't eat it gags me to think I am eating shoe leather. Must be rare actually I turned down a beef they were fixing to kill and butcher for me when one of the boys standing 10 feet away lit a cig. and burned my calf. Have to have my meat rare just singe and let me at it. If it don't beller I don't eat it. Except for CAT it can be mediume Rare

BTW 'Sparagus you fit right in welcome to the nuttiest forum on the WWW Wide World Of cat Wrangling.
Jimmy