((Serious Gardening))

[featherbaby]

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Ha, Ha! You thought I was looking the other way! I want some of that hand churned butter! Oooh, the thought of that makes my mouth water.

Seriously, how do you make squash bread? If this isn't tasty enough to eat by itself, that sounds like a reasonable alternative to use up the overflow. I have waaay more squash than chickens!

 

[KlaHaYa Gardens]

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Ha, Ha! You thought I was looking the other way! I want some of that hand churned butter! Oooh, the thought of that makes my mouth water.

Seriously, how do you make squash bread? If this isn't tasty enough to eat by itself, that sounds like a reasonable alternative to use up the overflow. I have waaay more squash than chickens!

Really?! Brown breads . . . banana, applesauce, carrot, squash. All basically the same recipe except the banana vs. applesauce vs. carrot vs. squash. I suppose you could make a bread with all of the latter three.

I like my breads moist, sliced think, and made in glass pans, verses metal. I haven't used silicone, and I probably never will; it's only a matter of time before we are informed which chemicals were leeching from the silicone and which cancer we have from it.

I don't actually eat such things anymore. Between a wheat allergy and a gluten intolerance -- although, I suppose you could sub amaranth or almond flour. Those are tasty! Mmm, really tasty.

Zucchini (Squash) cake, soup!! -- that would be MY favorite use! Squash mush for the freezer or the baby next door . . . (or grandma, I suppose). Let's see, . . . breaded and fried squash, squash pancakes, shredded squash thrown on a salad -- add some walnuts, goat cheese, and pansies or bachelor buttons or super colorful nasturtiums. . . Squash pudding, squash ice cream, squash pie, squash milkshakes.

Sauteed squash . . . bbq, grilled, or shish ka bob squash. . .

*barfs*

OOPS!! Sorry. I'm getting a little full and a little tired of squash now.

*takes excess to the food bank and the pig farmer down the road*

 

[featherbaby]

Thanks for the ideas....I'll google some recipes now that I know what to look for. Wish you lived closer, I'd be happy to unload....er, share some of these beauties with you. I visited The Easy Garden forum (sister site to BYC) and the experts said it was likely a hybrid cross between a Zucchini squash and a pumpkin. They called it a "Squumpkin" ! HA!

 

[galanie]

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These look remarkably like the spaghetti squash I grow. They start out looking like the green one, but then ripen to yellow.

Those do look like spaghetti squash. I think they are just normal squash till they ripen, then they get the spaghetti texture. Not sure since I've never cut one open till it was that yellow color.

 

[galanie]

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It helps that in about a half acre of property, we have less than 100sq feet of lawn.

The main garden (with a few trees) is 30' x 70' plus she has a winter garden by the house 10 x25ish (currently filled with mostly onions garlic kale peas etc) and another corner filled with yet more onions and cabbage and the pretty green beans (Scarlett Runners)

That is what I aspire to. Banishing the "lawn" for garden, fruit trees, fruit brambles and bushes. Chicken food, wild bird, toad, snake, lizard etc... habitat and food.

Same here but I need to leave enough "lawn" for the girls to free range some. I couldn't care less about grass, unlike everyone else around here. I swear I see no sense in "farming" stupid grass. As long as it's not just weeds or dirt, that's good enough for me.

 

[Carols Clucks]

Beans beans Beans


Last year I planted some scarlet runner pole beans on a old wooden orchard ladder for some thing to look at for the neighbors view of our garden. Mom LOVED her red bean flowers, but the beans themselves are not so tasty, the chickens like them okay though.

Does anyone have a better tasting pole bean that also has pretty flowers?

 

[vanilla.exe]

We now have 11 tomato plants and one of our roma plants has tomatoes growing on it xD

 

[danielle82]

okay "serious gardners" I have a question for ya! I put some seed in paper towels and kept it wet, well now they are just starting to sprout...when do I put them in the ground?

 

[KlaHaYa Gardens]

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What are the seeds? Peas? (Could be late for sweet peas.)

 

[NanaKat]

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Your sprouts should be set at the depth your seed packet indicates and should be kept moist. You will need to gently press the soil into contact with the sprouts without breaking the little root. You don't need to worry about the orientation of the little root...it will naturally grown down.

You can plant in your garden soil..or you can put the little roots into little pots to grow out a little more.