Re: What are you eating from your garden today?

Nonna.PapaVino 11/16/2012, 8:43 pm

I agree, GWN, raw carrots are the best.....unless it's a carrot cake. Very Happy

Nonna

CindiLou 11/18/2012, 4:51 pm

Today I will have a large salad for supper! I have Amish Deer Tongue lettuce, a loose leaf lettuce, mizuna, a little endive and arugula. And spiced with a few sprigs of parsley! Oh now I am hungry for supper rofl

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**Turan** 11/19/2012, 1:05 am

Mountaineer winter squash ravioli. Most of them are frozen in preparation for Thanksgiving day.

Nonna.PapaVino 11/19/2012, 11:20 am

Turan, where did you get your mountaineer squash seed? The variety sounds delicious and worth trying for our area, in that it appears to be more cold hardy. Is it a "dry-meat" kind of squash, or moist? Nonna

**Turan** 11/19/2012, 1:34 pm

Nonna.PapaVino wrote:Turan, where did you get your mountaineer squash seed? The variety sounds delicious and worth trying for our area, in that it appears to be more cold hardy. Is it a "dry-meat" kind of squash, or moist? Nonna

Nonna, I get the seeds from Judy Fisher of Fisher seeds. Her uncle Ken developed this squash. It is a short season hubbard, a good keeper with dense orange flesh. Not as sweet as a buttercup but tasty. It makes long vines and is quite rambunctious.

The Mountaineers are in the foreground.
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Fisher's Seeds
PO Box 236
Belgrade, MT 59714
406-388-6052

I can buy a new packet and split it between people interested.

Nonna.PapaVino 11/19/2012, 2:06 pm

Ooooh, beautiful squashes. Are those pale ones in rear Thelma Saunders acorn? If you do want to divest yourself of 3 or 4 seeds, I'd love to trade you some Potimarron (in Japan called Red Kuri) seeds, which are the best small baking squashes ever--taste somewhat like roasted chestnuts. Very smooth, dark orange flesh, and perfect for two to four serving portions, or 2 vegetable sides and a pumpkin pie! Nonna.PapaVino

**Turan** 11/19/2012, 2:17 pm

I would love to send you some seeds and get some Potimarron seeds! thanks.
The pale squash are Fisher's spaghetti squash. Ridiculously prolific. I am not as fond of the taste though but really should get used to it instead of pasta..... Sad

**camprn** 11/19/2012, 8:12 pm

I am eating nothing from my garden today because a friend invited me over to eat squash ravioli.YUM! What a Face

Unmutual 11/22/2012, 6:55 am

Today will be lettuce, green onions and some snow peas! Not sure if they'll make it on to a plate, I usually just eat in the garden.

Lavender Debs 11/22/2012, 7:35 am

Thanksgiving 2013

Fresh from the winter and herb garden: Carrots, Celery, Salad greens, the last of the fresh broccoli (my brussels sprouts exploded), parsley, rosemary, bay leaves, lavender, sage, thyme, marajoram and oregano.

From the Root Cellar (really its an unheated garage) Cinderella pumpkin, cippolini (little donut) onions, garlic.

From the Freezer: Apples, corn

Canned: Beans (dilly), apples (sauce)

littlejo 11/22/2012, 11:15 am

For this Thanksgiving we will have pumpkin pie, 2 sugar baby pumpkins from earlier in the yr.
Sweet potatoes, just baked with no toppings.
Jo

darci.strutt 12/11/2012, 9:33 am

Earlier this week I was still able to harvest some spinach from under its covers. Now we have 15 inches of snow so I'm thinking the gardening is done for the year, but it was an awesome season for my new garden! I never have had fresh food this late in the year!

Tonight I'm planning on fixing my acorn squash for supper. I still have a couple zucchini left, but that's about it!

CindiLou 12/11/2012, 9:40 am

No snow here yet but is is cold Sad

Have to check the coldframe later this morning and see what it is doing. Lettuce might be done. I want to see if there is any arugula ready for lunch. Maybe a radish or two lol...

CapeCoddess 12/11/2012, 12:53 pm

No snow here either, but I'm still eating salads (brought indoors a while ago), swiss chard, carrots, radish greens and beets/greens.

CC

plantoid 12/11/2012, 6:18 pm

We wuz eatin nuffin guv , nuffink , had a greasy Grott Donalds instead as we were out shopping .
Boy could I have done with a home made thick stew using our own stew veg for it was almost four foot long breath cold earlier on tonight at around 0 oC /0 oF & dropping off quite quickly .

quiltbea 12/11/2012, 6:24 pm

I'm making BLTs for supper tonite so I cut baby Romaine lettuce from the pot I'm growing indoors. Love it. Its a little bit of my garden being extended a couple more months indoors.
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**camprn** 12/11/2012, 6:28 pm

Going down to the teens tonight so made a homemade minestrone soup: braised pork chop, homegrown shallots, garlic, carrot, kale, roasted tomato liquor, dehydrated tomato and pepper, basil with store bought celery, beans, wine, pasta bits... waiting is difficult.

Nonna.PapaVino 12/11/2012, 6:39 pm

Last night's salad contained the last (so treated like a crown jewel) tomato from the pot of Bloody Butcher toms in the sunroom. Still getting chard and kale from outside, off and on, and I'm very stingy with the dozen or so nantes carrots in the garden (1/2 grated over a green salad a couple of times a week). Now that I know how wondermous a winter garden can be, will increase next year's to twice what we have this year!

FamilyGardening 12/12/2012, 3:21 am

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hugs
rose

Pepper 12/12/2012, 5:53 am

We are down to 2 leaf romaine lettuce plants that have not bolted, have picked the last of the white kohlrabi, the musculine( sp) mix lettuce is still going like crazy, still picking spinach leaves, the turnips and collards are still growing. The bell peppers are growing as are the other peppers( forgot what kind), the red kohlrabi never did make the 'bulb', the broccoli has small heads formed but probably won't make tonight's frost. All is good in the neighborhood Smile

yolos 12/12/2012, 6:26 am

Pepper - my purple kohlrabi have not headed either. What is this some type of Georgai weather related problem. My white kohlrabi are heading nicely and I have even picked a few. But the white kohlrabi is an early variety so I thought that was the difference.

Pepper 12/12/2012, 1:28 pm

I really do not know if it a weather issue or a late planting problem. I got them as transplants, it is probably a 'late fruiting' variety. This is my first year so I am making all maner of rookie mistakes. It did not help that I became very discouraged at the end of summer and really delayed planting my fall crop.

CindiLou 12/12/2012, 2:21 pm

Got enough greens to put on lunch ham sandwichs rock on

Loose leaf lettuce, deer tongue, chard, mizuna, radishes are done.
Endive, arugula, carrots,parsley still going. Minutina and claytonia growing.
Weird, salad in the middle of December in Iowa.

I would have had a lot more if I had planted earlier. Notes made for next year with !!!! rofl

Watered just because I don't want the top to get dry with seeds going.

Now is is Feb yet so I can plant more lettuce rofl

CapeCoddess 12/13/2012, 3:29 pm

My kohlrabi never headed up either. I'm thinking I planted it too late. Things seem to take a lot longer here than is stated on the pkg or in Mels book.

Can we eat kohlrabi leaves?

CC

cheyannarach 1/2/2013, 10:55 pm

We had our first spaghetti squash last night from this summers garden, it was the first time we had ever tried it and it is a must have in the garden from now on! Delicious!

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