What did you do in the garden today?

[CNJ]

This lady made a tenderizing brine with baking soda and cooked her 18-week-old heritage chicken in the oven first and finished it on a charcoal grill. I think they aced it......

 

[Sally PB]

Forecast shows temperatures dipping into to 30’s at night so this might be the end of season for everything but the kohlrabi. It’s a bittersweet time of year trying to get all the harvest we can but ready for it to be over.

39 is the forecast for tonight. I have to go pick my luffa. Yes, as in one. There are 3 more on the plant, but I doubt they're of any size (girth) to be useful. But I could be wrong. They're still dark green, so these may be a total bust anyway.

I need to get the soon-to-be garlic and potato onion beds ready. My new seed garlic arrived yesterday. I should have done the beds by now, but there were other things that needed to be done, so I let that project slide.

And, I need to dig the potatoes.

 

[Sally PB]

I am learning about sweet potatoes.

Yesterday, I visited them in the green house. To begin with, I cleaned off the dirt. I thought the skin was fragile. No, that's just the outer layer, and yes you can rub it off with your finger. Now that these have dried a bit, I can see that there's a 1/16" thick. heavy skin under the "color layer" (as I thought of it).

The green house was warm, thanks to some intermittent sunshine, but the humidity wasn't nearly high enough. I'm trying another set up. I have the potatoes laid out on the table and put clear plastic totes over them. A mini green house in the green house. I put a damp sock under each tote to try to boost the humidity.

 

[Acre4Me]

Impressed!!

Fairytale pumpkin is full of sweet flesh! This is a variety that can be eaten raw, as well as cooked. This one was definitely ripe - so the previous one we tried was definitely not ripe.

Here it is partially cut. I’ve chunked it up to freeze in vacuum bags. This is the “small” one….. I got two slices that I’ll roast this weekend, and 10 bags of chunked squash for the freezer.

In other pumpkin news, we also made our usual pumpkin stew with all of our pie (small) pumpkins. The stew has hominy, tomatillos, cumin, chili powder, oregano, garlic, red pepper, and onion. Recipe calls for it to be baked in the pie pumpkin, which we’ve done, but nowadays, we cut up the pumpkin flesh into small chunks and cook it in a pot. Although the recipe came from a vegetarian magazine, it tastes awesome with turkey or pork.

 

[Sally PB]

This is a variety that can be eaten raw,

I would never have guessed you could (or would want to) eat pumpkin raw! What's it taste like? Uh.... pumpkin, Sally... Is it really starchy, or maybe not?

 

[Acre4Me]

I would never have guessed you could (or would want to) eat pumpkin raw! What's it taste like? Uh.... pumpkin, Sally... Is it really starchy, or maybe not?

This was a bit crunchy and sweet, and …. pumpkin-y! I can see adding it to salad, for example. Most pumpkins you would not eat raw, but this variety you can. Also, it is in a different squash group than most pumpkins (and in same group as Seminole pumpkins), so they are resistant to SVB.

 

[Sally PB]

Fairytale pumpkin. I'll have to look for that. Where did you get the seeds, @Acre4Me?

 

[Acre4Me]

Fairytale pumpkin. I'll have to look for that. Where did you get the seeds, @Acre4Me?

https://www.kitchengardenseeds.com/pumpkin-fairytale.html

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Impressed!!

Fairytale pumpkin is full of sweet flesh! This is a variety that can be eaten raw, as well as cooked. This one was definitely ripe - so the previous one we tried was definitely not ripe.

Here it is partially cut. I’ve chunked it up to freeze in vacuum bags. This is the “small” one….. I got two slices that I’ll roast this weekend, and 10 bags of chunked squash for the freezer.
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In other pumpkin news, we also made our usual pumpkin stew with all of our pie (small) pumpkins. The stew has hominy, tomatillos, cumin, chili powder, oregano, garlic, red pepper, and onion. Recipe calls for it to be baked in the pie pumpkin, which we’ve done, but nowadays, we cut up the pumpkin flesh into small chunks and cook it in a pot. Although the recipe came from a vegetarian magazine, it tastes awesome with turkey or pork.

Those are beautiful. I have to get some!!!

 

[jerryse]

High of 60 and low around 40 for the next week. Yes fall is here. Squash seeds are dry. A half pint of pink banana seed. I set some tomato seed to test germination. I saved Roma seed from the food mill when canning. Way more seed than I need about 1 cup. Just put in a bucket and rinse - float off skins. I will share seeds that I saved. Good weather for canning as the heat is welcome. I will be canning pumpkin.