What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

GO FOR IT! It only costs you a packet of seeds.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. I'm enjoying another nice cool morning. Not much to pick in the garden today. A few tomatoes and all my little Danvers Half Long carrots. They've been in the ground for quite a awhile. Not as long as the ones I planted earlier, but thicker. I started working on prepping the former pea bed for planting chard. Hopefully the bugs won't notice it growing. I had planned on pulling the summer squash plants, however, there are a few more squash developing so I'll give it some more time. One of my jalapeno plants is loaded with little peppers, I sure hope they get bigger soon. Not much else going on. I'm in the middle of doing a refinance on my home. The interest rates are amazingly low right now. Need to clean and get ready for the Appraiser. Yes on the squash fritters @Sueby. They freeze beautifully. I was using my toaster oven to reheat them, but since I got an air fryer, wow they are even better. My recipe is similar. That's a tough call @Acre4Me. If it were me, I would just go to a local farmer who doesn't use heavy chemical fertilizers and buy some pickling cukes. But that's me. Have a great day everyone.

Squash Fritters

Ingredients /Instructions
Notes For a different flavor, add about 1/2 teaspoon of curry powder to the batter when mixing it up.
• 1 lb yellow summer squash
• 1/2 medium sweet onion
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• vegetable oil

1. Wash the squash then grate them on a box grater. You should end up with about 3 cups of grated squash. Grate the onion as well. Place the grated squash and onion in a mesh strainer and press to squeeze out some of the water.

2. Place the squash and onion in a large bowl, then add the flour, egg, sugar, and salt and mix until combined. Allow the mixture to sit for about 5 minutes.

3. Place a large skillet over medium-high heat and add enough oil to barely cover the bottom. Once the oil is hot, carefully place dollops (about 1 heaping tablespoon) of the batter into the skillet. Cook for 3 to 4 minutes or until golden brown. Carefully flip the fritters over and gently press them flat with the back side of a spatula. Cook another 3 to 4 minutes or until golden brown. Cook in batches, adding more oil if necessary, until all of the batter had been used.
4. Drain on paper towels and eat immediately. /Or let them cool and freeze them.

 

[Sueby]

@Acre4Me I planted like 6 cuke seeds yesterday! I don't have much hope but the seeds were 2 seasons old so I figured what the heck, I won't use them next year anyway. I think we're in the same zone.

 

[igorsMistress]

I am beyone pissed have not been this mad since Lord know when this guy has lied to me like 6 times now I am so pissed I could spit nails

Too bad you're under contract Penny.

I am thinking to deal with the scorpions permanently I need to just paint the inside of our mailbox with permethrin this time. It is getting old being afraid of collecting the mail due to those stupid things.

Gloves?

 

[igorsMistress]

Good morning gardeners. I hope you all had a good weekend. I found the second elephant ear had sprouted but part of the leaves on both are crisp from the Sun so I made a bit of shade for them with some old tomato cages, leftover bits of shade cloth and zip ties.

Here's a few snaps from the shade garden

 

[pennyJo1960]

Still waiting on the roof yes .. Called this morning he said they got into one that was rotted so he hopes for tomorrow will let us know later today

 

[Swiss]

Thanks for the recipes! I am currently eating the first recipe. It is good, but I felt it lacked a little flavor, so I am eating it with fresh cherry tomatoes!

 

[WthrLady]

Too bad you're under contract Penny.

Gloves?

Maybe scorpion tape around the box post?

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Thanks for the recipes! I am currently eating the first recipe. It is good, but I felt it lacked a little flavor, so I am eating it with fresh cherry tomatoes!

Add a little cayenne and a dash more salt. Yum!

 

[NewBoots]

I don't believe that I have ever had a dried tomato.

I've used the home dried cherry tomatoes in meatloaf and a last 10 minute addition to spaghetti sauce, they add a killer pop of sweet tomato flavor. Heck, they'd be great added to the fritter recipe! I am counting on getting tons of the cherry tomatoes to dry this year. I'll try drying the bigger tomatoes too if I can't can them all for some reason. I've used dried, oil packed tomatoes before I had access to home dried ones and I'll be looking into making my own shelf stable oil packs too.

I would very much miss the snow - I LOVE snow.

I will miss the snow too, but the cascade range is close by if I just got to have snow.

The seed packet says 56 days, and cucumbers are pretty tender/can not tolerate frost. What do you think?

I just planted mine last week myself so I say go for it.

Thanks for the recipes! I am currently eating the first recipe. It is good, but I felt it lacked a little flavor, so I am eating it with fresh cherry tomatoes!

We have them with a dollop of sour cream or greek yogurt, but tomatoes go with everything! Now I'm thinking about adding dried cherry tomatoes to the batter.

Good morning gardeners! No rain for us but they're saying maybe some on Friday so I'll keep my fingers crossed. I've got a lot of tomatoes about 3 days from picking so I'll be sure to pick them before the rain. Watering and critter care is done for the day, got the soaker going on the saddest looking hedge shrubs. My sweet dumpling winter squash are dying, I'm hoping to get a few to live long enough to harvest. I might pull them and try to get another crop of zucchini, both green and gold.

Here's the zucchini chips and a tomato that fell off into my hand. Not quite ripe but that's okay.

And I have a few berries on my lingon berries! Well you nearly need a magnifying glass to see them but they're there!