Coronavirus Gardening. Garden while sheltering in place

Garden your way through Coronavirus!

I am updating a kitchen scrap garden blog I wrote about last year's celery. I also do the same with the bottoms of lettuce and cabbage. I just started some celery, lettuce, and cabbage today (3-23-20) Check Back in a few days, I will add some more pictures as I go along. Below is my blog on the celery that I grew from scraps last year.

If you have a few potatoes with eyes on them you can cut them into pieces, set them out to harden on the edges for a few days. Plant them shallowly in the dirt in a big flower pot or a 2-5 gallon bucket. As they sprout keep covering the area around the plants as they grow taller. When the container is full of dirt the potato plants are ready to begin their magic. Depending on the size of your container you could get anywhere from 10- 60 potatoes at the end of its life cycle. Worst-case scenario,? You fill your time productively, and if your plants fail you gave your dirt some good nutrition. Better yet, use the peels from all your veggie scraps as mulch on the topsoil of your kitchen scrap garden.

Youtube has so many videos teaching you this stuff. Take some time out from constant news watching and back up and be proactive. You are using scraps what is the harm maybe in 30-60 days you will have a small amount of food to add to your fridge. You can even plant carrot tops it will only be greens but greens are greens. Buy some bags of dirt, a few pots, and do a little container gardening. In Texas, this is the best time to begin.  At worst you are learning a new skill with the time you are sheltering in place.

Growing Celery From Kitchen Discards (updated)

I use a lot of celery lately as my daughter and I are on the eating protocol from the GAPS diet. So I decided to try something I had read about over the years. I started growing celery from my discards. In a few weeks, I should be able to start harvesting Celery.  Below are photos are the growing journey so far.

If you are interested in learning about the GAPS Diet I have written a blog on it.

Gut and Psychology Syndrome and Gut Physiology Syndrome.

 Here is the book from my Amazon site. GAPS

Mushrooms:Ways to store them

MUSHROOMS

Keeping Mushrooms For A Longer Time In Your Freezer Or Refridgerator.

I sometimes get so frustrated because I get busy and forget I had mushrooms I wanted to add to my cooking. Then they go all stinky and slimy. Taking advantage of sales and buying mushrooms in larger quantities will allow you to store them for whenever you need them in the freezer. 

Simple solution, sautee them in butter or oil,

then store in the fridge and use within a week, or put in small freezer bags or containers and freeze in portion or meal sizes and keep for up to a year. 

Mushrooms hold their texture and taste well when frozen.