INPUT ARTICLE: Article: The leaves have a hot, peppery taste. Simply chop them up and add to the salad. The leaves make an ideal substitute for watercress. The flowers come in a range of colours from gold and orange to red. These can make a beautiful feature in a salad, with the bonus that they're edible too.

SUMMARY: Use the leaves in a salad. Throw the flowers into the salad.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Climbing a rope without your legs is an extremely challenging climbing technique and requires tremendous upper body strength.  Grab the rope with both hands.  Let your legs dangle loosely below you.  Move one hand up on the rope, gripping tightly with the other.  Then place the opposite hand above the hand you moved to the high position.  Continue in this way, using short, quick movements of the hands and gripping the rope tightly with the other, stabilizing hand until you reach the top. Climbing two ropes at once requires two ropes positioned approximately shoulder length apart.  This technique also precludes use of the feet.  Grab one rope in one hand and the other rope in your other hand.  Stand between the two ropes with one on each side. Grab the rope on your right with your right hand, and the rope on your left with your left hand.  Let your feet dangle below you. Gripping the left rope tightly, slide your right hand up the length of the rope, then grip it tightly. Repeat the process, starting from your right side. This technique is also suited for individuals with superior upper body strength. An L-sit requires you to start on the ground with your legs straight out in front of you.  The goal is to climb the rope while keeping your legs in the same perfectly straight position that they have when you start climbing.  With both hands firmly on the rope and your legs out in front of you, place your lower hand above your upper hand in a tight grip.  Repeat until reaching the top of the rope, all the while keeping your legs straight out from your body in a horizontal position. The position is named the L-sit because viewed in profile, your body should look like an “L.”

SUMMARY: Climb a rope without your legs. Climb two ropes at once. Try an L-sit climb.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Most people boil the lobster alive or immediately after death, with no prepping in advance. Transfer it to an ice bath as soon as it's done cooking, and you're ready to process it.  If your recipe calls for raw lobster meat, instead put the live lobster on its belly and kill it humanely with a small, sharp knife where the head meets the body. Clean the raw lobster as described below, but do it over a bowl to catch raw juices, and rinse the meat before cooking it.   See these instructions for frozen lobster. Twist the claws off of the lobster or bend them back until they snap. If you have a hard shell lobster, break off the tip of the claws with a nutcracker, scissors, or the back of a heavy knife. Push the meat out from the hole you made down through the "wrist" opening. If you have a soft shell lobster, just extract the meat with your finger. The knuckles between the claw and the body are tiny, but the tasty meat inside is worth it. Break these off the claw and crack them open with a nutcracker. Uncurl the tail and flatten it out. You can remove by twisting the tail and body in opposite directions, or by pulling the tail back toward the head until it snaps off. The fan at the end of the lobster tail consists of five flipper-like segments (a central "telson" and four "uropods"). Pull these segments off or cut them off with a chef's knife. There's a tiny bit of sweet meat inside each one, which you can get at with a lobster fork or by breaking the shell. Removing the tail fan leaves a narrow hole at the tip of the tail. Push your finger or a lobster fork into this hole to push the meat out the other end, where the tail once met the body. Alternatively, put the tail upside-down on the table. Slice through either side of the shell with a pair of shears or strong scissors. Peel off the underside of the shell and remove the meat. The dark vein running down the tail contains the lobster's waste. Peel or slice this off and throw it away. It might be hiding under a flap of meat. If you have a female lobster, you might see roe — eggs — inside the tail shell. This turns pink when cooked, which gives it the name "coral." Raw lobster eggs are black. Steam them for a couple minutes until they turn pink before eating.

SUMMARY: Cook or kill the lobster. Harvest the claws. Break off the claw knuckles. Remove the tail. Pick out the lobster's tail flippers. Push out the meat from the tail. Peel off the intestinal tract. Collect the roe.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If you grow Rose of Sharon from seeds you harvest yourself, you may find that the newly grown plant doesn't look exactly like its parent plant. Gardeners say the plants ‘don’t come true’ when this occurs. If you want to try growing from seed (regardless of what the new plant will look like), you should try looking underneath the existing plant first, as your Rose of Sharon may have self-seeded.  See if there are any seedlings waiting for you that you can dig up and replant elsewhere. This will save you the effort of growing the plant from scratch. When you do this, you might like to hoe or pull out the other seedlings so that your garden isn’t overrun with Rose of Sharon! If you prefer to plant your own Rose of Sharon seeds, wait until the pods are brown and mature before harvesting them.  Some gardeners plant the seeds outdoors in the fall and let them get going over the winter. Other gardeners will start the seeds off indoors about a month before they expect the last frost. Regardless of whether you are planting the seeds indoors or outdoors, you should sow your seeds in a seeds compost. Moisten the compost, lay the seeds on top and cover with about a quarter inch of dry compost. Spray with water. If you start the seeds indoors, make sure to place them somewhere light but out of direct sunlight, such as an indoor window ledge that doesn't get direct sun. For both indoor and outdoor seeds, keep the compost moist until the seeds germinate in about 2 to 3 weeks.

SUMMARY:
Be aware that plants grown from seed may not look like the parent plant. Look underneath your existing plant for any seedlings. Wait until the pods turn brown before harvesting them for seeds. Sow your seeds in a seed compost. Keep the planted seeds moist and in a bright location.