Weekly Gardening Thread
Weekly Gardening Thread
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Pole beans, tomatoes, collards, cucumbers, green onions, jalapenos and if there is any room left a few peas.
I'm banking on the pole beans for canning.
I have always had a love of wild things. I particularly love to eat them. I highly recommend bacon tomatoe and wood sorrel sandwiches. Look online for wood sorrel pictures. It looks like a shamrock and probably grows in your yard. It tastes like grapefruit to me.
Good Morning RD, I echo the fact of no sun in over a week, rain gauge I quit reading, will mark a sunny day when and if it happens, few tomatoes and peppers left here also, and late squash are producing (bugs drowned ).. thankfully have late Brittle Blue Blueberries and Huckleberries to pick in the rain.
and it’s Sweet ‘tater time:
Sweet Potato Snack Cake
Category: Cake
Serves/Makes: 8 | Difficulty Level: 3 | Ready In: 2-5 hrs
Ingredients:
1 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cup light brown sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 1/2 cup cooked mashed sweet potato
2 egg whites
2 tablespoons skim milk
2 tablespoons confectioners sugar (optional)
Directions:
Combine the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, and spices, and stir to mix well. Add the remaining ingredients, and stir to mix
well.
Coat an 8-inch square pan with nonstick cooking spray. Spread the batter evenly in the pan, and bake at 325 degrees for 40 to
45 minutes, or just until tester inserted comes out clean.
Cool the cake to room temperature. Sift the confectioners sugar over the cake if desired, cut into squares, and serve.
I planted a dead woodchuck in mine yesterday afternoon. He was munching away and never knew what hit him. Apparently he’d been at it a while he was the size of three cats.
Good morning RD. My tomatoes were doing fabulously.... and died, with all remaining fruit... almost over night. I found a few plum tomatoes that weren’t ugly, but the rest are done. I didn’t even get any for fried tomatoes!
My friend said he was surprised they made it as long as they did. We have a fungus that took most things out this year. So, my garden is completely done now. Don’t know if we should try to do any winter crops, of just let it go, and get it ready for spring. I am thinking the later.
Have also talked to Mr G about expanding it for next year. I would like to do pole beans, and more tomatoes. I am thinking another 2 or 3 boxes should be good.
Here is the recipe for the zucchini appetizer that my son-in-law now serves in his restaurant in L.A. [Backstory: my daughter and I grew some giant zuccini in the garden and he took it to show the chef, who promptly created this recipe. The customers love it.]
1. Zucchini cut into julienne strips (ala large french fries)
2. Pat dry with paper towel to make sure there is no water on the strips
3. Dip in very well beaten/whipped egg yolk
4. Sift some flour until fine (or use old-fashioned cake flour, or cut your sifted flour with a touch of Bisquick)
Toss the flour with sea salt and oregano and a touch of rosemary
5. Dredge the egg-covered zucchini strips with the flour mixture
6. Deep fry very quickly in fresh, hot vegetable oil until golden on the outside but still firm on the inside; make sure not to let the zucchini go limp.
7.Serve immediately with extra course ground sea salt on the side
Daughter and I got the water bill for our beautiful garden and almost fell over. That’s the downside to growing veges in the desert; high water charges.
Oh well, the veges have been delicious!
We have three pumpkins coming along nicely and hopefully will be fun to carve as jack-o-lanterns.
We planted beets, broccoli, spinach, lettuces, chard, radishes, and a couple of others that I can’t remember, for our fall/winter garden. We have two or three nice acorn squash coming along.
Discovered an infestation of sow bugs in the rose garden so we are working on that. Planted flowers in the front garden for winter bloom, and next week will pull out the zinnias and plant the pansies and snap dragons for winter color.
This year has just sucked thru and thru. Wrote it off and am getting ready for next.