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Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
Fortex green pole beans harvested this past summer and froze.
yolos- Posts : 4152
Join date : 2011-11-20
Age : 74
Location : Brooks, Ga Zone 7B/8A
Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
thought so, nice, I am a bit of a rock hound as well!GWN wrote:GWN, what is that in your avatar?
It is a Jasper Geode, rockhounding has become my hobby in the winter, in fact we drove through Redding this fall on our way to Nevada. We spent the winter in our vintage motorhome, camping in the desert and searching for cool rocks.
I struggle with the winters here, I lived in coastal oregon for 13 years and just cannot get used to not seeing the ground for 4 months of the year.
So when we retired we took to traveling around for the winter.
I cooked up my very last pumpkin and made pumpkin cookies yesterday.
Scorpio Rising- Posts : 8687
Join date : 2015-06-12
Age : 62
Location : Ada, Ohio
Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
I snow shoveled some of the paths in my garden -- not all the way down, don't want to toss my wood chips all over the lawn. And then I harvested greens from the low tunnel (rocket, mustards, komatsuna, claytonia, & mache, started back in September/October) -- salad for lunch, w/ one of my mini butternut squash!
BeetlesPerSqFt- Posts : 1440
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Location : Centre Hall, PA Zone 5b/6a LF:5/11-FF:10/10
Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
CC, that is true about the potatoes! They got growth crack due to the uneven rain/watering situation last summer....but the potatoes are fine, growth conditions were not! I will plant the best ones for sure! Loves me some spuds!
Scorpio Rising- Posts : 8687
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Location : Ada, Ohio
Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
OMG! CAULIFLOWER! It was absolutely FABULOUS! At first I was disappointed because the heads are small and loose, on long stems -- more like broccoli -- but the taste and crispness were amazing. We ate the stems, too -- dipped them in homemade ranch dressing and ate them raw. I may give up on broccoli and Brussels sprouts and switch to nothing but kale and cauliflower next winter.
Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
Was that one of the purple cauliflowers? I was so surprised at how delicious fresh garden cauliflower tastes raw.
Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
Me, too. Hubby was really amazed. I couldn't find seeds for the purple. These were called "rainbow" I think. I bought plants on a whim from a nursery last year. I still have 2 more heads forming. Do you eat the leaves from yours?sanderson wrote:Was that one of the purple cauliflowers? I was so surprised at how delicious fresh garden cauliflower tastes raw.
Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
I used the leaves to make Boffer's "Cabbage rolls." Boil for one min, ice plunge for one min. Remove the center vein. Stuff with your favorite recipe.
Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
Sounds good.sanderson wrote:I used the leaves to make Boffer's "Cabbage rolls." Boil for one min, ice plunge for one min. Remove the center vein. Stuff with your favorite recipe.
Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
Vegetables previously frozen - Lady Cowpeas, Dragon Tongue Beans, Shell Peas, Silver Queen Whole Kernel Corn. (and a side dish of chicken). Have to get the freezer emptied out to get ready for this summer.
yolos- Posts : 4152
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Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
I know what you mean. I need to eat last summer's frozen veggies, and I only have a side-by-side freezer!yolos wrote:. . . Have to get the freezer emptied out to get ready for this summer.
Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
sanderson wrote:Was that one of the purple cauliflowers? I was so surprised at how delicious fresh garden cauliflower tastes raw.
Wish I could grow cauliflower and broccoli. I can get the leaves, which is fine, but the heads, if any, are the size of my pinkie nail.
Any suggestions?
CapeCoddess- Posts : 6824
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Location : elbow of the Cape, MA, Zone 6b/7a
Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
I sure hope Camp, our NE Champ, will chime in. For CA, the seedlings are set out in the fall and start heading Jan-Feb.
Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
Too much nitrogen? CC, Mybe your beds are all leaves no fruit? Which in my experience is too much N. Get your MM or dirt testedCapeCoddess wrote:sanderson wrote:Was that one of the purple cauliflowers? I was so surprised at how delicious fresh garden cauliflower tastes raw.
Wish I could grow cauliflower and broccoli. I can get the leaves, which is fine, but the heads, if any, are the size of my pinkie nail.
Any suggestions?
Scorpio Rising- Posts : 8687
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Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
CC, could it be the amount of kelp added to the beds? Out of balance nutrients? What do I know. If you get your soil test, maybe use U Mass with their soil-less test? (dirt-free mix)
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Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
Oh my gosh I just hit the motherload. I guess I haven't done it a while but I cleaned out the freezer today and ran across a bag each of strawberries, garlic scapes, peppers and tomatoes. So I made some strawberry yogurt which will go in the fridge for dessert tonight. And I'm cooking up some tomato sauce, garlic scapes and fusilli for lunch today.
CapeCoddess- Posts : 6824
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Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
The last of the indoor winter cukes and the first of the outdoor spring chives.
RE: What are You Eating From Your Garden Today?
Steamed Cabbage, my last one from the fall planting with kielbasa, a nice salad with store bought tomatoes & cucumbers, Sugar Snap peas on the side. This by far has been my best season and I want to Thank You my friends on this Forum for their help. We're finally getting some rain down here I'm setting up with my dog he doesn't like the thunder & lighting.
newbeone- Posts : 202
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Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
My garden feels sorry for me. I've been so discouraged, but this morning I went out to find some salad makings and came back with a nice mess of snow peas (mistake from some seed co. -- supposed to be sugar snaps), tiny purple broccoli, and small cauliflower heads. All were delicious and gave me new energy to carry on the good fight. (The phone rang while I was looking for the camera, and by the time I got back, Hubby already had them cut up and gone, so no pic. )
Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
All of you! Yum!
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Scorpio Rising- Posts : 8687
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Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
We are still eating the over wintered carrots ... have taken all out of one bed to clear it entirely for this years brassica .
We still have some long rooted winter carrots in the ground in another bed .
The lifted carrots .....about 12 pounds of them are stored in a three gallon pail /bucket of chopped moist coir.. We've found it is as good a damp peat for root crop storage plus we'll get o use it as the soil for this years tub tomatoes towards the end of May
We also still have a dozen of so inch thick leeks with a 9 inch length of white flesh below ground to harvest .
Some of you may recall I managed to grow some Chou D' Aubenton ( perennial/ ever lasting Kale ) from some beginning to rot cuttings that were held up for nearly three weeks in the international post one Easter ( they came from France ).
I sterilised in a cap-full of baby bottle sterilizing bleach to a mug of warm water for a few seconds after gently scrubbing the slime off under running cold water with a nailbrush several years ago . Any place where the slime had been was then carefully sliced off with a scalpel & given anther sterilizing then rinsed in running water shaken dry ( ish ) & dipped in rooting compound then planted as deep as I could so the bottom leaves were just clear of the soil & watered them in well .
I must have done something right , for over the last five years I've always managed to take cuttings off a plant that was left to go leggy but this time simply pulling a leggy shoot off ensuring it has a heel on it & popping it in a dibbed hole then flooding the hole with clean water then gently tamping the hole closed . snip of the biggest leaves but do leave some on the cutting .
This last week we've been eating the results too . There are six ull grown plants in the beds , we take a few leaves off each plant each time we want some fresh greens . There are now five cutting too .
Tuesday saw us eat the final Brussels sprouts & the sprout tops as chopped cabbage with sautee'd potatoes & inch thick homemade beef , pork , onions & salted bacon burgers with whole home canned tomatoes & plenty of tomato juice instead of gravy .
We still have some long rooted winter carrots in the ground in another bed .
The lifted carrots .....about 12 pounds of them are stored in a three gallon pail /bucket of chopped moist coir.. We've found it is as good a damp peat for root crop storage plus we'll get o use it as the soil for this years tub tomatoes towards the end of May
We also still have a dozen of so inch thick leeks with a 9 inch length of white flesh below ground to harvest .
Some of you may recall I managed to grow some Chou D' Aubenton ( perennial/ ever lasting Kale ) from some beginning to rot cuttings that were held up for nearly three weeks in the international post one Easter ( they came from France ).
I sterilised in a cap-full of baby bottle sterilizing bleach to a mug of warm water for a few seconds after gently scrubbing the slime off under running cold water with a nailbrush several years ago . Any place where the slime had been was then carefully sliced off with a scalpel & given anther sterilizing then rinsed in running water shaken dry ( ish ) & dipped in rooting compound then planted as deep as I could so the bottom leaves were just clear of the soil & watered them in well .
I must have done something right , for over the last five years I've always managed to take cuttings off a plant that was left to go leggy but this time simply pulling a leggy shoot off ensuring it has a heel on it & popping it in a dibbed hole then flooding the hole with clean water then gently tamping the hole closed . snip of the biggest leaves but do leave some on the cutting .
This last week we've been eating the results too . There are six ull grown plants in the beds , we take a few leaves off each plant each time we want some fresh greens . There are now five cutting too .
Tuesday saw us eat the final Brussels sprouts & the sprout tops as chopped cabbage with sautee'd potatoes & inch thick homemade beef , pork , onions & salted bacon burgers with whole home canned tomatoes & plenty of tomato juice instead of gravy .
plantoid- Posts : 4096
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Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
Those pesky husbands.countrynaturals wrote:The phone rang while I was looking for the camera, and by the time I got back, Hubby already had them cut up and gone, so no pic.
Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
Do you remove the greenery from the carrots when they are in peat storage?plantoid wrote:The lifted carrots .....about 12 pounds of them are stored in a three gallon pail /bucket of chopped moist coir.. We've found it is as good a damp peat for root crop storage plus we'll get o use it as the soil for this years tub tomatoes towards the end of May
Re: What are you eating from your garden today?
CapeCoddess wrote:Oh my gosh I just hit the motherload. I guess I haven't done it a while but I cleaned out the freezer today and ran across a bag each of strawberries, garlic scapes, peppers and tomatoes. So I made some strawberry yogurt which will go in the fridge for dessert tonight. And I'm cooking up some tomato sauce, garlic scapes and fusilli for lunch today.
Can you give a brief explanation how you make your homemade yogurt? Do you have a yogurt maker or do you use something else? What do you use for starter? Have you tried making Kefir?
Do you think an amateur could make coconut yogurt?
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