What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

Do you just freeze the whole cloves separated from the head?

I tried mincing and freezing them in an ice cube tray. I was hoping for a "cube" of minced garlic, but when I popped them out, they crumbled.

So next time I'll add either 1/4 teaspoon olive oil or water to each cube to try to make it stick together. I'll try half a tray with each.

 

[Sally PB]

Here's my report on making zucchini flour.

The biggest one (bottom) weighed about 5 pounds. I didn't weigh the rest. I sliced it with a mandoline, about 1/8" thick. The problem with that is the thin slices do this when you try to peel them off:

Yeah, they stick to the tray liner, which is a plastic mesh.

So the next batch, I sliced by hand, about 3/16-1/4" thick. And, after about 4 hours of dry time, I turned each slice over. This did two things: It put a semi-dry surface against the mesh, and it put the damper side up, so it could dry faster.

When it was time to remove the pieces, they came off very cleanly.

Next step was to pulverize them in the blender. I have a Blendtech, and I used it on speed #9 for about 20 seconds. Powder! In fact, I learned it was a good idea to leave the top on for a few minutes, so the flour would settle and not floof out when I took off the lid.

Those zucchini made 2 pint jars of flour. I haven't made anything with it yet. I think a loaf of zucchini bread might be a good thing to try it out. I have a GF recipe that uses almond flour and I think I'll look online to see what kind of ratio people have used successfully.

 

[Molpet]

Fresh off the evening news. Lol!

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My neighbor feeds them. It was looking like that at night
I have eliminated 128 since the beginning of covid.
I also had one come in the attic fan on the roof. I have a whole house fan and I seen fur sticking out the ceiling grill. I hit the grill with a broom and it took off for a couple minutes. I turned the fan on and went up into the attic and seen it going out the roof fan... which wasn't working. Hardware cloth took care of that.

 

[Sally PB]

I have a GF recipe that uses almond flour and I think I'll look online to see what kind of ratio people have used successfully.

The little bit I looked online says 1:2 zucchini flour to other flours. So for my zucchini bread recipe, I'll try 3/4 cup zucchini flour and 1-1/2 cups almond flour next time. Which might be this week....?

Maybe, maybe not. I have a lot of projects lined up.

 

[Minanora]

Today I volunteered at my son's school garden. Filled and moved wheelbarrows full of mulch from 3pm to 4:30. Then DS and I helped them with seed saving marigolds. We're well practiced with saving seeds. We did about 1.5" of the bottom of a five gallon bucket with very little chaff in about 30 minutes. They got way more seeds than they anticipated.

Didn't do much in my garden. Last of my seed garlic arrived today!

 

[akroberts1085]

I tried to get into the garden today to get some more beans picked because I thought that I had given beans to 2 of my neighbors but it turned out I had only given them to 1. Darlin, and Peppa followed me out so of course Darlin being the little dramatica that she is wouldn't let me be. I did get a small batch but not enough for even so much as 1 person and considering she has a husband I will leave the girls locked up until I get enough beans picked for them. I also took a dozen eggs over for her husband because I found out that she's vegan. I gave another neighbor 2 dozen eggs. I have tried selling my eggs but it doesn't seem as though anyone wants fresh farm eggs so apparently I have neighbors that need to eat too.

 

[Eagle343]

Replanted the garlic and finished up a mums bed for the wife:

 

[Sueby]

Morning. I pulled all the peppers & composted the vines. Pulled tomatoes, the vines can wait till I get home. Today I need to pull the squash, I can't cover it because I won't be home. Waiting till the last second hoping it's ripe enough to continue to ripen off the vine.

I won't plant garlic for a few more weeks here. I need to get some compost on the bed.

 

[Sally PB]

Frost warning last night, so I covered the bean plants that have beans I'm hoping to save for seed, and the lone habanero plant.

The night before last, we had enough chilly air run down the valley where the bean plants are to nip the sweet potato vine leaves, but the beans were fine.

I'm betting last night nipped them a lot harder; it's 39 at the house right now, and the garden is downhill from here. I'll know in a few hours.

 

[jerryse]

Yesterday I saw a squirrel digging in my tote of hollyhock starts. He had a walnut. Turned the dog out and the chase was on. DW is seeing benefits from vitamin B1. It helps so many things. They say every diabetic should take it. Told my diabetic doctor about it and it seems he did not know about the benefits for diabetics. You would think they would teach it.