Another Fall project I guess

Another Fall project I guess

I want to make local coffee using local chicory growing by road near my mailbox.  That’s it.

I will use a chicory mix (and call it local New Orleans style coffee although many Europeans have already figured this out), in which the chicory is either wild, or sowed by the State road people in the past to help hold the soil. To me, it is just a pretty perennial (likes grows year after year) blue flower.

But the root is the key I am learning. And the best time to dig them up is in the Fall. So I have to wait for this experiment to come to fruition. Oh well, at least I am learning something in all this, or so I hope.

Now the side of the road bed is pretty hard, so digging up any roots will probably be difficult. Another oh well. And then there is the embarrassment of trying to flag the growing plants, and also the good possibility the State mowing people will cut them down anyway during the next few months of this summer where I live.  All the drivers need is another old crazy person (me) doing something by their road they drive on.

So I ordered some “chicory” seeds to plant in more protected (from the State mower guys and girls) areas, which means waiting for the roots to mature circa Fall 2015 and later. Another oh well.

Now I do hear the house smells pretty good when roasting the chopped up chicory roots, but that is just a story to me right now. I’ll just have to wait right now.  And like the old Navy Chief taught me in 1966 at Georgia Tech, rehearse if you can, and then see what you learn. At least I think I can still learn.  And Lord knows, I do make enough mistakes along the way.