{"id":387,"date":"2020-07-09T09:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=387"},"modified":"2020-07-10T08:02:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:02:07","slug":"arugula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Arugula."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It was on the pizza, and it was oh so tasty. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

My mother-in-law has this vegetable garden. I built her some raised beds a few years back. When I say ‘I’ what I mean is there was a crack team involving my brother-in-law who can actually build things and myself, doing a lot of the ‘support’ work. Like hauling seemingly endless yards of dirt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mother-in-law fills them with the most amazing collection of produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Including Arugula. It grows rather slowly in those boxes we built, but she has lots of room and as a consequence there is plenty to go around. Over the last few days it has been on pizza, in several salads and eaten straight. It has a lovely, soft flavour. What is even more galling, from a fellow gardener’s point of view, is that she has plants that are volunteers from the year before. And that<\/em> arugula is amazing as well. I struggle to get anything going in my garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The produce is nothing like what you would get in a box. Not that there is anything inherently wrong with buying arugula from a store. In fact, I find it incredible that they can pick it, wash it, package it and move it hundreds of miles and it\u2019s still fresh. But I do wonder if they grow a varietal that\u2019s is prone to last, rather than taste good. Or I wonder if sitting in a truck for a few days would take the edge off of pretty much everything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless, it is amazing how much better it tastes fresh from the garden. I feel very lucky that we have access to it. And to her, too. My mother-in-law is a lovely woman. Her daughter is nice, too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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