A Plant Exchange with my Dad

For Mother's Day, I went home to Jersey to see mom.  We had our first barbeque for the season.  Yum, nothing beats the first barbeque!  All winter long I craved barbequed chicken, hot dogs, shish kabobs and grilled steak.  I burned the chicken a little here.  Yikes.

My dad also made his special Cantonese Style Atlantic Blue Crabs.  Cooked traditionally, it is stir fried with black bean sauce, soy sauce, ground pork, and an egg.  And boy is it delicious.  This is my absolute favorite way to eat crabs, it's so flavorful.

My dad is a big time gardener, he saves his own seeds and has a vegetable garden every year.  This year, he and I traded plants!  He gave me seedlings of Japanese Eggplant and Chinese Hairy Squash / Gourd.  I'm not a big fan of hairy gourd, it has fine hairs all over the squash.  The taste is very similar to zucchini but much lighter and milder in taste.  I'm growing it in my garden for him to eat, since I don't care for the taste.

I gave him my seedlings of Brandywine tomatoes and marigolds. We were both very happy with our trades.  This will be the first time growing heirlooms for him.  :)

Dad also insisted that we take home some of his prized homemade compost.  He has a large pear tree in his backyard and all the inedible pears are thrown in the compost ever year.  This compost is 3 years in the making!  Here's the hubs shoveling it into large buckets.

Isn't it gorgeous.  His compost was really fine and looked so rich and amazing.  Our plants will love this stuff for sure.  Dad loves composting just as much as I do. Now I know why I love to garden, it's in our blood!

I do have a non-garden related question for all you bloggers out there.  Has anyone ever migrated their blog from Blogger to Wordpress.  I've been pretty unhappy with Blogger lately, especially now since I'm over my limit in images.  (argh!) I want to migrate my blog over, but I was wondering how easy or hard it is to do.  Any insight would be great!