West Virginia Victory Garden (home, buy, floor)

[David Kennedy]

I got a speeding ticket yesterday...for running the yellow light at the Mobley intersection on Rt 7.

She was a city cop and I just happened to have a bag of fresh ramps on the car seat beside me.

When she came up to the car door and asked for ID, she asked me what I had in the brown bag, Must have thought it was liquoir.

I said, "Fresh ramps..just dug them out near Reader on Eight-Mile Ridge."

She said, "Looks like contraband to me...hand that bag over! Were you within 300' of the Highway?"

"No Sir...Maam!" was my answer.

"I'm keeping this as evidence," she said as she walked back to her motorcycle. Smiling all the time.

Moral of the story: Anybody expecting to 'Ramp Up in Mobley better stay out of the 'fast lane.

[snorpus]

Never mess with a female cop from Mobley.

How good were those Eight-Mile ramps? I took a girl who lived out Eight-Mile to the Prom in high school.

[David Kennedy]

Snorpus:
No one would understand that last post but you...if there is one single ramp growing wild on 8 mile...I'd eat a straw hat...small one.

[Threerun]

A couple years ago I planted about 5 acres of sweet corn at our church in Inwood. Silver Queen, Ambrosia and Peaches and Cream.

The ambrosia was absolutely the best corn I've ever tasted. Peaches and Cream came in second. Man, I walked that corn patch with a salt shaker and stick of butter and ate it right out of the husk. Man was that ever good!

[Sharedspirit]

We picked our first few stalks of asparagus today! 2 years ago, we planted 10 2 year old crowns. Now I wish we'd planted more!

Yesterday, we used up the last of the ramps we bought. Made soup with the ham bone left over from Easter, Ramps, potatoes, carrots and great northern beans. I think I'm going to go warm up some leftovers!

[David Kennedy]

Planting Tomatoes cont.

That's a trick...about circling the hole with the stem...don't break it, just give that plant the rooting it deserves...It will pay you back by growing twice as high or long...
and those milk jugs?
Little incubators.
In the eastern mountains they are used by the thousands...take off the caps and let them do their work as little greenhouses for those plants...

Dogwoods in blossom...you know what that means...

[Sharedspirit]

dogwoods in blossom? Yep, means I sneeze all day!

Other than that? What about the dogwoods?

When oaks have leaves the size of squirrel's ears? Plant corn. That's what I heard, anyway.

We are starting to pick Rhubarb now.

We planted potatoes two weekends ago, using the "lasagna" gardening method. I pulled up a square of mulch over them and they are doing nicely!

Sweet potato slips are growning nicely on the back porch also.

Right now, everything is just to wet to do much in the gardens.

[quizzle]

All this talk, I can't help but wonder, what are ramps?

[HomersBoy]

Originally Posted by quizzle

All this talk, I can't help but wonder, what are ramps?

Ramps are nothing more than wild leeks. They grow in the more mountainous areas of WV.

[Sharedspirit]

The wild leeks in north eastern PA aren't anything like the ramps we get here in WV. I remember the ones in PA being a lot bigger and stronger tasting. Are they really the same thing?

Does anyone need any comfrey plants? We have tons of them and I need to thin them out a bit.