we sprayed the beets and potatoes, sweet peas and beans with the sticky black-strap sweetener, my nose filled while i transplant root vegetables to beds with a view of omnipresent mountains. I think of the bread we made a few nights ago, rising and punched, cracks on the top to be layered with butter shaken in a mason jar. everything tastes better of glass you know.
for the gardener…
molasses has nitrogen fixing microbes.…
One of these nitrogen-fixing microbes is Azotobacter, a microbe that can fix nitrogen straight from the air without living on the root of a legume as long as it has a source of energy such as sugar or molasses. Both are rich in carbohydrates, a good source of energy. In lab tests, Dr. Louis M. Thompson discovered that if given sugar weekly, the Azotobacter could fix from the air the equivalent of a thousand pounds of nitrogen per acre in ten weeks.
mmmm… everything does taste better of glass. my family cans yearly various fruits and vegetables. the salty, hot and spicy pickles, the sweet as sugar peaches, and the tart, seedy raspberry jam always delight me the most. I think the glass jars lined up on the shelf are the best because they make a pantry so colorful.