Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

[mlowen]

Somebody posted a link to a temporary fence made from 2x4 lumber with a cross brace at the bottom and a wooden turn latch at the top to just hold the fencing material against the wood. It is being sold by a company, I believe. I cannot find it again, to save my life, so I'm asking in every thread I subscribe to. If you posted it or saw it, please direct me to it, again. Thanks so much!

 

[mlowen]

Somebody posted a link to a temporary fence made from 2x4 lumber with a cross brace at the bottom and a wooden turn latch at the top to just hold the fencing material against the wood. It is being sold by a company, I believe. I cannot find it again, to save my life, so I'm asking in every thread I subscribe to. If you posted it or saw it, please direct me to it, again. Thanks so much!

 

[MumsyII]

It's been raining here for two days. Sun just did come out. The ground is good and soaked now so I'm glad the sprinkler can be put a way for a while. And maybe the burn ban will be lifted here soon too.

When there was a let up in the rain I went out and picked what I thought was a pumpkin but it turns out it is a nice squash. I had thought the pumpkin vines had swallowed it. I butchered it up and getting it into the oven to bake now. I saw a recipe on tv the other day that says to put water in the pan and bake it then when cooled, remove skin and seeds. Never done it this way before so I'm curious on what happens.

Found an old recipe for sauteed' cucumbers. Going to try that tonight too. My husband is excited to try new vegetable recipes for the bounty from the garden. We are both tired of eating cucumbers fresh and want something different. Fried cucumbers sounds different to me.




edited to add: my mistake. Not butternut. Kabocha type.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Ooooh I'd like to hear how you like that! If it's good, please share the recipe

 

[MumsyII]

Ooooh I'd like to hear how you like that! If it's good, please share the recipe

I will for sure! My husband wouldn't eat squash until I started baking Butternut and using brown sugar and butter. This time I'm baking it first and then preparing after. I just came back in after snooping around looking for more. There are three or four more ripening now. What I thought was pumpkin over growth is more Butternut squash! I'm very happy about that. While looking for squash I found ripe heritage Brandywine tomatoes. They aren't really pretty, but they are the first red ripe tomatoes I've grown in August in many many years. There are a whole lot of green ones coming on in the hoop house. I eat most of the yellow cherry tomatoes off the vine. I picked and saved these for my husband.

edited to add: It is Acorn squash I prepare, not Butternut. I've never grown or cooked Butternut. The squash I planted that is orange I think is a Kabocha type. I can't find the label in the jungle out there.

 

[MumsyII]

Searching among all the vines which I thought were pumpkin turned up more squash! I am so happy! I thought the pumpkin had swallowed them all. More digging found the tags. The orange variety is indeed a Kabocha type called BOA Sunshine Butter cup. This green one I found had eluded me. It was hanging in the raspberry row! There are a few hanging from the fence as well. Another Kabocha type called Burgess Buttercup.


I'm going to freeze most of them after baking and pureeing so I can make pie, muffins, and cake with them this winter.

 

[armorfirelady]

I love squash....acorn are my favorite with brown sugar and butter. Great to eat on cold winter nights and freezes well, I have never had good luck with butternut. I have one tiny acorn squash and a larger one on the same vine that's white? It has turned dark green like the other and its been large for a couple weeks.

Mumsy my mom brought some plants over I have never heard of before. They are suppose to be ornamental.

I am going to do some research on them. I'd like to put them near the coop as long as their not poisonous. My best friend has been giving me wood that is suppose to super dense & not rot so my plan is to make raised beds to put along the coop and grow herbs for the hens. I would make lids with wire to put over them to protect them till they get larger. What do you think?

Oh and I got some clippings of wild grape vines. They are sitting in water now to get roots. Can I plant them right in the ground then?

 

[MumsyII]

Those ornamental kale are beautiful. I've never grown them but my mom loves them and plants them with chrysanthemums every fall.

I love acorn squash with butter and brown sugar. That's how I prepared the Sunshine Butter cup tonight for dinner. That one squash made four cups in the processor.

After it cooled a bit I scooped the seeds out and then scooped the soft flesh into my little hand crank food mill. Two cups went into a little Pyrex dish dotted with butter and sprinkled with brown sugar. Heated back up in a 350' oven. It was delicious! Two cups went into the freezer. The soft cooked remains with seeds went out to the compost pile and the flock went nuts over it all.


Dinner from the garden tonight. Baby orange and purple Caliope carrots sauteed' in butter and olive oil with a bit of dill and celery seed. Twice baked Butter cup squash with brown sugar and butter. And fresh cucumber slices. Pork chops and a glass of red wine and we have enjoyed the first fall meal from the garden. Though its the last of August, it's been raining for two days. I feel a change in the weather coming on.

 

[Mrs Rebecca]

Those ornamental kale are beautiful. I've never grown them but my mom loves them and plants them with chrysanthemums every fall.

I love acorn squash with butter and brown sugar. That's how I prepared the Sunshine Butter cup tonight for dinner. That one squash made four cups in the processor.

After it cooled a bit I scooped the seeds out and then scooped the soft flesh into my little hand crank food mill. Two cups went into a little Pyrex dish dotted with butter and sprinkled with brown sugar. Heated back up in a 350' oven. It was delicious! Two cups went into the freezer. The soft cooked remains with seeds went out to the compost pile and the flock went nuts over it all.


Dinner from the garden tonight. Baby orange and purple Caliope carrots sauteed' in butter and olive oil with a bit of dill and celery seed. Twice baked Butter cup squash with brown sugar and butter. And fresh cucumber slices. Pork chops and a glass of red wine and we have enjoyed the first fall meal from the garden. Though its the last of August, it's been raining for two days. I feel a change in the weather coming on.

Oh my! That looks wonderful! I am glad you can feel a change in the weather, all we can feel here is pure summer. It will be 98* tomorrow. Not that I should complain, it really has been the coolest summer in Missouri that I can ever remember.

 

[MumsyII]

Rain and wind overnight knocked half the corn patch sideways. After feeding the flock I grabbed my nippers and harvested a wagon load of bounty. Squash in the raspberry row, ontop of the tomato house and inside the tomato house.



Easy to harvest when they are just hanging or sitting at eye level.


Thought these were pumpkins three weeks ago. Love this BOA Sunshine butter cup. Planting it again next year.


I never saw this squash on top of the tomato house until this morning! Going to need a ladder to pick it.


Making green salsa today. The tomatillas are ready.


Tomatoes inside the tomato house and growing outside. They are every where. I've never had this many in August before. Not one sign of blight. It's a jungle of tomatoes, tomatillas, and squash vines in the hoop house. I need to prune a trail way through it just to pick what is ripe. Next year I won't plant so much in there.



My little wagon was so heavy this morning, It was difficult to pull out of the garden.

I'm going to be busy in the kitchen today.