tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28067656695129960942024-03-18T20:30:10.242-07:00Kentucky Fried GardenKentucky Fried Garden is my journal of vegetable gardening in humid western Kentucky USDA zone 7a. Knowing where my food comes from and whether it comes from non-genetically modified seed is important to me. I try to use open pollinated varieties in an effort to continue maintaining the diversity of food plants available to humans. Trying to extend the harvest by experimenting with hardier varieties and overwintering plants will be one of my projects.Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.comBlogger249125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-52877440427216559602021-07-12T09:09:00.002-07:002021-07-12T09:29:43.483-07:00Harvest Monday, 7/12/21<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7MaLCqiSZeGHa8h6kCwis-27wQGZKBf42HmB6l8UE_SBFGTX1Ibg9-3ZNObMbrWLRPX-4_9wrJhsq4ZwReWMbUynw0tkSw4zN1WXg-Dc6DX_3GFHM4DMseD63-IaZ3o3HJ1wcHHe_FxQ7/s2048/IMG_4730.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7MaLCqiSZeGHa8h6kCwis-27wQGZKBf42HmB6l8UE_SBFGTX1Ibg9-3ZNObMbrWLRPX-4_9wrJhsq4ZwReWMbUynw0tkSw4zN1WXg-Dc6DX_3GFHM4DMseD63-IaZ3o3HJ1wcHHe_FxQ7/w640-h480/IMG_4730.JPG" width="640" /></a></p><p>Mix of cherry tomatoes and small tomatoes like Jaune de Flamme, Sun Gold, Candyland, Yellow Pear, Bumble Bee, and Jelly Bean. None of the tomatoes are really sweet right now, which is likely due to the very hot dry weather interspersed with torrential rainfall. Yellow pear is sourish and the tiny Candyland has surprisingly crispy flesh.</p><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1-Y1PkckIQGmwhiG2lPNi1U2b_tVZdRB4eIBwNTxzvXHfdQS_jWJMMbh2E7pThNmVnIog1_7qC6w63Mjs4cDqZ0LzXjbAq5B67VxWtZiTYhGHqSHSB8DQGC_Ojbvk8RAtjQt_WsuwHUep/s2048/IMG_4728.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1-Y1PkckIQGmwhiG2lPNi1U2b_tVZdRB4eIBwNTxzvXHfdQS_jWJMMbh2E7pThNmVnIog1_7qC6w63Mjs4cDqZ0LzXjbAq5B67VxWtZiTYhGHqSHSB8DQGC_Ojbvk8RAtjQt_WsuwHUep/w640-h480/IMG_4728.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Garlic chives, red shisho or perilla, and green shisho or perilla. I find perilla to have a complex herbaceous flavor that's hard to describe. People say it has an astringent or basil like flavor, but I don't find that at all. So far they've been put in stir fries at the end of cooking.</div><div><br /></div><div>I had problems seed starting the perilla. What finally worked was wrapping them in damp paper-towels inside ziplock bags, and then wrapping that in a towel on top of a seedling heat mat with a thermometer to keep them from getting too hot.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTnSBNOGR3zoyeoY3edtC5mik3uNrUwnwIJz3XA6GGE9i8qD4Sru0E9309YKr8c_dIDtKqCpBC26Hx3bY6bqzAqiv3BUE36HKj_DX0ReLz8CvbK7XLGsYhEwLTZSPH65otvltqGV72BEzu/s2048/IMG_4726.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTnSBNOGR3zoyeoY3edtC5mik3uNrUwnwIJz3XA6GGE9i8qD4Sru0E9309YKr8c_dIDtKqCpBC26Hx3bY6bqzAqiv3BUE36HKj_DX0ReLz8CvbK7XLGsYhEwLTZSPH65otvltqGV72BEzu/w640-h480/IMG_4726.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>On the left is Colza (rapeseed) and on the right is Nero di Tuscana kale. There's also assorted cherry tomatoes.<div><br /></div><div>Ner di Tuscana can be a little coarse during the hottest part of our summer, but the leaves are never bitter. It's actually my first year growing Colza and I find the flavor very similar to kale, and the leaves are nice and tender with no signs of blooming. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPuCwJmyZRA5ehnhrtKbMTKCEbsHI-yB-Na4VohoY8gg8NdSx9e-UfqJ26FpA9fVYn4EGDfPxRh8rZY7wngURYx7iVS260woX-pRSAV5M9N1p655dHvGsxMEUX3AI-cReSeic3V1E-VbhX/s2048/IMG_4719.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPuCwJmyZRA5ehnhrtKbMTKCEbsHI-yB-Na4VohoY8gg8NdSx9e-UfqJ26FpA9fVYn4EGDfPxRh8rZY7wngURYx7iVS260woX-pRSAV5M9N1p655dHvGsxMEUX3AI-cReSeic3V1E-VbhX/w640-h480/IMG_4719.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>This is what happens when you don't go in the garden for 3 days, lots of big zucchini and cucumbers. There's a yellow Butta zucchini in the back, the short blunt ones are Bolognese which were still seedless surprisingly, and the round ones are Chiaro di Nizza.</div><div><br /></div><div>I did grow some White Custard pattypan squash, but a few were terribly bitter. So now I'm always eating a few slices of zucchini raw before cooking.</div><div><br /></div><div>The cucumbers on the right are mostly Telegraph which have been fantastic in salads. Luckily they go to seed very slowly.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPpHS3HWQa14DXapVufkp9bCIP4XDG4LZ6FrIj1M9jOfkxfMbPS6GCRF686xW_7kyVThsny73hcNjch1NzS5ELDtu29_g3g3H9sMrEq9A162goP4rbpS93XWee7WuvX80MNiqta1DSw5AV/s2048/IMG_4715.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPpHS3HWQa14DXapVufkp9bCIP4XDG4LZ6FrIj1M9jOfkxfMbPS6GCRF686xW_7kyVThsny73hcNjch1NzS5ELDtu29_g3g3H9sMrEq9A162goP4rbpS93XWee7WuvX80MNiqta1DSw5AV/w640-h480/IMG_4715.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div></div></div><div>From left to right: Stella, Nero De Tuscana kale, Colza, and sorrel. Stella's slender leaves are crunchy but it has a bitter endnote that I'm hoping cooking will tame. The bitterness could be due to the heat or the fact it's going to seed. Sorrel on the far right is shockingly lemony.</div><div><br /></div>We've also been getting a few Jet Star tomatoes for a couple weeks and they are great in salads and stir fries. The plant has good disease resistance and has bounced back well after being terribly rootbound when planting was delayed. The other large tomatoes are still a ways behind.<div><br /></div><div>I've been eating massive salads everyday for months. Makes me sad we didn't grow any spring lettuce. So, lots of endive, escarole, chicory and lettuce were started over the weekend in preparation for the fall garden.</div><div><br /></div><div>One note on failures. I had started rhubarb from seed. Had nice beautiful plants, which were then killed by over fertilization. When they say one tablespoon of fish emulsion per gallon of water, that's really what they mean.</div><div><br /></div>Please join us for <a href="https://happyacres.blog/2021/07/12/harvest-monday-july-12-2021/" target="_blank">Harvest Monday</a>, a group of intrepid gardeners, where neither harsh winds, sun, or rain will keep us from growing vegetables.Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-39145636579693494702020-08-10T03:00:00.124-07:002020-08-10T03:00:02.829-07:00Harvest Monday, 8/10/20<p> I've started the process of clearing out the garden. Squash bugs and harlequin bugs have arrived in droves, decimating the once pretty free range greens. I managed to clear out 4 beds on Friday with another 4 beds to go.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgABkgBVaEASrbnnghUq4POqr7fgD8-rYk883oclCWmbWCxigtbYYlo56hoWlSS-_80u0fa-Jmw1uclKwZc7hPmIngdu-J1KzumWOlshyphenhyphenCsfQkV77Qjpmk4Ncc-zi_M0QYYBz4UWoj4t377/s2048/IMG_4655.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgABkgBVaEASrbnnghUq4POqr7fgD8-rYk883oclCWmbWCxigtbYYlo56hoWlSS-_80u0fa-Jmw1uclKwZc7hPmIngdu-J1KzumWOlshyphenhyphenCsfQkV77Qjpmk4Ncc-zi_M0QYYBz4UWoj4t377/w640-h480/IMG_4655.JPG" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgABkgBVaEASrbnnghUq4POqr7fgD8-rYk883oclCWmbWCxigtbYYlo56hoWlSS-_80u0fa-Jmw1uclKwZc7hPmIngdu-J1KzumWOlshyphenhyphenCsfQkV77Qjpmk4Ncc-zi_M0QYYBz4UWoj4t377/s2048/IMG_4655.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><span style="color: black;">The cherry tomatoes are so full of water just washing them caused quite a few to split open. I've been making salads with tomatoes, cucumbers, and alfalfa sprouts that I've grown. The Telephone cucumbers are late to produce but the cucumbers are lovely, when their seeds start forming their flavor and texture actually improve.</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi87gTUgrIlMtnXJT3G70P-95I-RmUzAJvZiVFTlnbOnqD-ROAeNOGTsID4IfYq8Yx6X2YSWIIK0EC_qAFhDVQCWtJIhhlC4RiMTSaF-9QE6OSUJo0FOi301HgP9QpRaXU-WkhEH568lY16/s2048/IMG_4651.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi87gTUgrIlMtnXJT3G70P-95I-RmUzAJvZiVFTlnbOnqD-ROAeNOGTsID4IfYq8Yx6X2YSWIIK0EC_qAFhDVQCWtJIhhlC4RiMTSaF-9QE6OSUJo0FOi301HgP9QpRaXU-WkhEH568lY16/w640-h480/IMG_4651.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Just a few large tomato types left, these mainly go on sandwiches. I've started the process of removing the cages and plants.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPNKq4rSq-j3Z91p4nPylCZoGmOJp_rQtftl0M08XXMBPWVhHHzKvS-3Z2fWlLflToaRDw_exVOHypxpW4gFsjhI8qhNsFbSHpoRLeL3tNw9Ive09bUjLMSQFYSxYq-KezhNdwUXN_FFRi/s2048/IMG_4646.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPNKq4rSq-j3Z91p4nPylCZoGmOJp_rQtftl0M08XXMBPWVhHHzKvS-3Z2fWlLflToaRDw_exVOHypxpW4gFsjhI8qhNsFbSHpoRLeL3tNw9Ive09bUjLMSQFYSxYq-KezhNdwUXN_FFRi/s640/IMG_4646.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Black Cherry has finally started sweetening up, they've been strangely sourish which I suppose could be from a cooler than usual early summer. Really, all the cherries have been on the sour end, except for Sungold and Juliet.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWMPGfEs7G64G6LwZKGW2DNuWbSXdAlcbOR6jiLZP8A1Iwgpe69ucG4j8D9FEFhpOnkMUWJruEYutiWNJ4ORmpkqdaqhHR1RMym95ixfXdba3SR3dXycH7RyzrAYScKqDi_y61NjtuqgT-/s2048/IMG_4624.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWMPGfEs7G64G6LwZKGW2DNuWbSXdAlcbOR6jiLZP8A1Iwgpe69ucG4j8D9FEFhpOnkMUWJruEYutiWNJ4ORmpkqdaqhHR1RMym95ixfXdba3SR3dXycH7RyzrAYScKqDi_y61NjtuqgT-/s640/IMG_4624.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>I made some more zucchini hash. Shredded zucchini was mixed with shredded cheddar and chopped turkey lunch meat. Then a handful of the mixture was dredged in egg, then dredged in panko bread crumbs, and fried in a little olive oil. So light and crispy, these were served with macaroni and cheese. They also heat up perfectly in an air fryer, if you want to make a big batch of them.<p></p><div>I picked quite a few snap beans and little squashes while clearing out those beds, but didn't get any pictures. And the soil beneath the sweet potato vines look like it's heaving, hopefully lots of big sweet potatoes are hiding under there.</div>Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-91047768998899496702020-08-03T04:22:00.000-07:002020-08-03T04:22:43.335-07:00Harvest Monday, 8/3/20There's a weird space time anomaly surrounding this year. It just seems never ending. I hope everyone is staying safe and taking care of yourselves mentally and physically. Now is the time to be extra kind to ourselves and to our loved ones.<br />
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Kale, free range greens, cucumbers, zucchini, fat green onion, and those slender greens stalks on the right are garlic chives, and a giant summer squash.<br />
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We eat a lot of ramen soups or curry noodle soups with tomatoes, greens, squash, onions, and chives from the garden. We also make sandwiches with tomatoes, cucumbers, and sprouts.</div>
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We've gotten a tremendous amount of rain the last couple of weeks and the plants our suffering because of it. The only things doing well are greens and peppers. The greens especially, look vibrant and have had a surge of growth that I find astonishing. It's time to clear out the great majority of the beds, except the sweet potatoes, greens, and peppers will get to hang out awhile longer.<br />
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We are having a cooler and wetter than usual August, so it's probably the perfect time to get some lettuce, greens, winter radishes, kohlrabi, and a second planting of snap beans in the ground. I'll be putting off planting turnips and spinach because they're so sensitive to temperature spikes. And I've actually ordered onion and shallot sets for fall planting, which should arrive the 3rd week of September. I'm so excited to try this new experiment in fall planting.<br />
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Please join us for <a href="https://happyacres.blog/2020/08/03/harvest-monday-august-3-2020/" target="_blank">Harvest Monday</a> as hosted by Dave from Happy Acres.</div>
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Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-71049727241179366832020-07-26T22:56:00.000-07:002020-07-26T23:05:48.390-07:00Harvest Monday, 7/26/20Tomatoes have come on strong this week. There's 45 tomato plants in my garden with 15 of them being small or cherry types. We'd been talking about drying the garden produce this year, which is why there are so many cherry tomato plants. I told my husband two weeks ago that we needed a game plan worked out because they were going to start ripening en masse.<br />
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On Sunday we processed about 40 pounds of tomatoes which are in the drying tent with a dehumidifier as I'm typing this. My husband is a ceramic artist and he uses a similar setup to quick dry newly made clay pieces in preparation for a kiln firing.
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We've actually eaten a couple tomatoes the week before, but I've been kind of overwhelmed by the garden to post pictures. It's the weeding. The weeds have been going to seed and I couldn't let that happen, so between torrential rain showers I've been weeding like an insane person.<br />
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More tomatoes were picked on Saturday but aren't shown here. The small and cherry tomatoes include Juliet, Sungold, Fat Cherry, Black Cherry, Gardener's Delight, Taxi, and Juanne Flamme. The large tomatoes shown include Green Cherokee which have a yellowish skin color although the interior is very green, Giant Australian, and Brandywine. We've been eating tomatoes everyday this week so not shown are Marianna's Peace, Carbon, Oaxacan, and Goldie. The standout of the large tomatoes was Marianna's Peace, unless I'm confusing it with another tomato, it was delicious with a distinctly salty flavor. And for the cherry's, Juliet is just lovely, nice firm meaty texture with a sweet flavor that reminded me of a good grape tomato.<br />
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Also, you can see where I avoided the squash and zucchini beds because of all the rain and then was greeted by massive squashes. Must not put off visiting the squash beds. Once the tomatoes are dried, we're going to dry the squashes as well.<br />
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I've had a couple good pickings of snap beans. The first picking, the snap beans were sautéed with strips of carrots in a little olive oil with salt, pepper, and dried herbs till they were caramelized with a good bit of color. Then I added chicken stock and cooked it down until most of the liquid was cooked off.<br />
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A picture of the second picking of snap beans, right before cooking. I'm only growing 3 varieties of beans this year, Merveille De Piemonte, Purple King, and La Victoire bush bean.<br />
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The second batch of green beans was prepared in a similar manner to the first but I added orange juice at the end, instead of chicken broth. Then finished it with a Pico Fruta spice blend that includes chili pepper and lemon peel.<br />
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The tomato bed with Giant Australian, Oaxacan, Carbon, and Brandywine are dying from disease. Most likely fungal because of the very wet weather we've had this year. I'm leery of using tomatoes from diseased plants, so am pulling that bed this week.<br />
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I've already cleared the lettuce bed and one of the squash beds. The plan is to plant peas, more bush beans, rutabaga, endive, and chicory in the three beds.<br />
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It has been so hot but the weather finally broke and we got some much needed rain this beautiful Monday. Hopefully we'll get a little less than the 1.3 inches of rain they are predicting between tonight and tomorrow.</div>
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The pattypan squash plants are huge with numerous branches. White Custard is tender for a pattypan squash while still holding it's shape well with cooking.<br />
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The Fordhook and Elite plants keep getting flipped over by the wind, but the zucchini they do produce are very nice. At this size they are not at all seedy with just a small spongy core.<br />
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The summer squash plants are coming into their own right now with lots of female flowers forming.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The round zucchini plants are trying so hard to put new roots down along their stems, but the wind keeps pushing them over and unmooring the little rootlets. I'm hoping they'll anchor themselves before their stem breaks from all the movement. They're not growing or producing as much because of it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">At this point the garden is producing enough squash and zucchini, we could probably live off of them if we needed to. Lots of sautéed squash, squash in shrimp coconut curry, and squash hash have been eaten. I've ordered some udon to make squash and carrot curried noodles. </span><br />
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We've been eating greens, herbs, and green onions from the garden. They usually go in omelets and soups.</div>
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Clockwise from the top left: lemon basil, red veined sorrel, edible chrysanthemum, green onion, and red amaranth. The amaranth is fairly bland, it does very well in the heat but I'm not sure I'll grow it again. The red veined sorrel is not lemony like I expected, although the texture is good. But the edible chrysanthemum has a very surprising flavor that is fairly herbal, my husband thinks it smells like a musty attic.<br />
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In the end we definitely prefer kale and mustard greens when it comes to flavor and texture.<br />
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Free range mustard greens and green onions which went great in a spicy noodle soup. The blooming tatsoi was still very good, I just snap off the tough parts. similarly to the way we snap the tough bottoms off asparagus. These became part of a spicy noodle soup, otherwise known as fancy ramen. I add sliced pork and an egg to the soup as well.<br />
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The first picking of squash on Wednesday, June 17th. Shown here is round zucchini and pattypan squash. My son had already chopped up the Straight Neck summer squash, dark green Fordhook zucchini, and another round zucchini before I could get a picture.<br />
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I ended up making a squash, pineapple, cucumber stir-fry with ground turkey and nuoc mam. It was actually pretty amazing. My maternal grandma made pineapple cucumber stir-fry with ground beef but I found that a bit too oily, and my father says his family usually made it with seafood like shrimp, octopus, or clams.<br />
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Pale yellow Butta zucchini on the left, four Straight Neck summer squash, and a pattypan squash. The two darker yellow summer squash on the left actually have much firmer skin than the two paler yellow summer squash on the right. Then tender skin of the pale summer squash reminds of Rugosa summer squash<br />
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All zucchini in this batch that was picked on Sunday.</div>
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There's been very few squash bugs or vine borers in the garden this year. The 3 squash bugs I did see ended up disappearing later. I'm attributing this to the surprising number of beneficial lady bugs in the garden as well as a long cold and wet spring. We might actually end up with an overabundance of squash this year. I only wish I had planted some winter squash.<br />
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What to do with all this squash and zucchini? Squash hash browns. Just shredded squash dipped in a little egg with salt and pepper and lightly coated in panko bread crumbs, and then fried in patties in a little oil. They're wonderful, so light and tasty. My friend uses almond flour for lower carbs.<br />
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I've added shredded cheddar cheese and chopped ham to the squash hash browns, which is just amazing especially served with macaroni and cheese. They also reheat very well in an air fryer.<br />
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There's a lot going on in the garden. Bush snap beans are thinking about blooming, little tomatoes are swelling, and it's actually time to start thinking about starting plants for the fall garden. I read an interesting blog post about overwintering broccoli and cauliflower plants that end up setting very early heads in the spring. It'd be a fun experiment to try.<br />
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Please join us for Harvest Monday, hosted by David at <a href="https://happyacres.blog/" target="_blank">Happy Acres</a>. Where gardeners from all around post about what's happening in their little and not so little vegetable plots.Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-43811309754329197612020-06-06T05:30:00.000-07:002020-06-09T21:22:18.827-07:00Happenings in the GardenThe vegetable garden got planted over Memorial weekend which I had to work, boo hiss. The cold wet spring had delayed planting of my seedlings, and the seeds that were directly sown mostly didn't germinate. But it was kind of nice having a long drawn out spring, even though it was a bit too rainy. But at last, summer is here to stay.<br />
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On Friday, May 22nd, my husband tilled the garden for a second time. He only tilled the top couple inches since it was still pretty wet lower than that, and I immediately started planting in earnest because it was supposed to rain from Monday on. It took 4 days to get most everything planted. It started raining while I was trying to finish seeding the last bed with bush beans.<br />
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These pictures were taken on May 31st and June 1st, when the plants had more than a week to settle in.<br />
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My friend gave me 12 tomato plants a month ago, mostly Oaxacan Jewel and Giant Aussie, but also a Black Krim and a couple Carbon. She had ended up with 36 Oaxacan Jewel plants when she thought they weren't germinating. We've all been there. I gave her a bunch of amaranth, zucchini, and pattypan squash plants as thanks.<br />
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Besides my friend's plants, this bed is also home to 3 Pink Brandywine tomato plants. It looks like all the plants have nearly doubled in size since being planted out a week ago. The plants at the end of the bed are basil and flowers that have been nibbled on by birds.<br />
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This bed is home to cherry tomatoes and smaller salad type tomatoes like Taxi and Juane Flamme. I started my tomato plants a month later than my friend's, but the vigorous cherries look like they might be catching up in size.<br />
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During planting I amended the tomato planting holes with crushed eggshells, spent coffee grounds, azomite rock dust, and Mykos mycorrhiza inoculant. Living in a humid environment I have a real problem with fungus in the garden. I'm hoping the mycorrhiza will help compete with the diseases below ground. I've also used Serenade, which utilizes a harmless bacillus and is considered an organic method to control bacterial and fungal infections in the garden.<br />
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The majority of the tomato plants I started took forever to germinate with the cold weather. They were just little sticks in the ground a week ago and even though they're still short, they are all forming blooms. My theory is we had such a chilly spring, then they were planted out on a day that reached 90 degree days (32 degree Celsius), so they thought they were dying and decided to perpetuate their species by bearing fruit.</div>
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Sungold blooms are already opening up.</div>
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Pink Brandywine with their potato leaves are blooming. They are very vigorous and productive in our climate.</div>
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This bed used to be home to 13 pepper plants, but the day after planting the birds topped all but two of the plants. Cilantro and different varieties of basil are residing here now with a nice stand of amaranth at the end of the bed.<br />
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Here's a pepper plant that was topped by a bird. It looks like it's trying to form new leaves at the joints of the cotyledon leaves.</div>
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Green amaranth at the end of the pepper & herb bed. Critters love to nibble on the amaranth leaves.</div>
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Droves of these bugs fly away when I water the amaranth. It's my first time growing it, and I've never seen this specific bug before.<br />
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The Telegraph cucumber plants were in desperate need of being planted out. They immediately put out runners once in the ground. There's also edible chrysanthemum in the bed, along with red amaranth at the end.<br />
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The red amaranth is being eaten on by those same bugs besetting the green amaranth.</div>
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Squash bugs and vine borers usually decimate my squash and zucchini plants. So I plant tons of different varieties to compensate for the high insect pressure. In this bed starting at the far left are Tondo Di Piacenza a round zucchini, Elite zucchini, White Custard pattypan, and a single Rolet squash putting out runners in the back right.<br />
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You might notice the sweet potato laying on the ground at the bottom right. It was one of the two Purple sweet potatoes I used to start my slips. My son wanted to feed it to the squirrels, and wouldn't you know it, something did take it over the fence. The second sweet potato is now waiting for the squirrels to come get it.<br />
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Starting from the left Gentry summer squash, Butta zucchini, Fordhook zucchini, and Straight Neck squash. I just noticed that the growing tip on one of the Butta zucchini plants is gone, probably nipped out by birds.<br />
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There's an itty bitty round zucchini, if you look closely.</div>
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The bush beans are just finishing germinating. Normally I plant the rows much closer together, but with the greenhouse on the other side of the bed, I thought giving them room would make picking easier.<br />
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I tried a new way to form sweet potato slips. Instead of suspending the sweets so half was in water, I planted them in little tubs with potting soil. It ended up making very healthy slips with complex root systems. They say having lots of roots during planting means lots of small potatoes, hopefully that doesn't hold true.<br />
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There's also a row of seven Burgundy okra plants next to the fence. Their red stems are very pretty, but they've been taking a great deal of water to settle in.<br />
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This is one of the two beds that didn't get re-tilled. All those greens are from free range plants of likely mixed parentage. I just dug them up from around the garden when they were little and replanted them in this bed. There's also green onion ends from the grocery store that I rooted in water.<br />
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The mass of yellow flowers at the end of the bed are blooming Asian greens that I transplanted and am letting go to seed. They've been blooming for months, and once in awhile I clip and hang dry the seed pods.<br />
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I am very happy that we were able to plant the garden. The physical activity and doing things outdoors has been nice. We've chosen to not tell our young child about the pandemic. He's been asking about the parks, pools, and playgrounds. But since he can see the caution tape all around, we've told him that they're cleaning and fixing those areas. Usually my dad takes swimming lessons with him during the summer, but that is unlikely to happen.<br />
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In the tomato beds Tuscany melon and Ginkaku melon have just germinated. I'm hoping they'll provide some groundcover to shade out weeds, plus a few melons would be awesome. We actually love watermelon, but I've never been able to grow it here. I have a friend who does really well growing gigantic watermelons but she has raised beds.Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-13009080426794165392020-06-01T07:54:00.001-07:002020-06-01T07:54:26.326-07:00Harvest Monday, 5/31/20<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
It's been such a wet cold spring the garden didn't get planted until last weekend. My husband actually had to re-till because the only things that had germinated were lettuce, carrots, beets, and grass. We ended up growing a nice lush lawn.</div>
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The two beds closest to the house that were home to herbs, greens, and lettuce were saved from being re-tilled. So, we have loads of lettuce to harvest. Yesterday, I harvested as much lettuce that could fit in our fridge since 90 degree weather is headed our way.</div>
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Giant Caesar lettuce has a buttery texture. I was actually expecting more of a crunchy romaine type, but the tender leaves and flavor were still nice.<br />
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I'm pretty sure this is a Bibb lettuce and that the Nevada lettuce never germinated. It has a very nice tender leaf, but it very much was planning to bolt.<br />
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Black Seeded Simpson lettuce is as lovely as ever. It didn't look like it was even thinking about bolting.</div>
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Here's a picture of the lettuce bed before harvest. I do think the mountains of rain made the leaves a lot more delicate then they normally are.<br />
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What to do with so much lettuce? Lettuce cucumber salad with crunchy Vietnamese eggrolls sliced up on top accompanied by a sweet, sour, spicy dressing. Also chicken, celery, cucumber salad with walnuts and dried cranberries. The chicken is baked with a soy sauce, HappyWorcestershire sauce, brown sugar, ginger, lemon grass, and pear infused balsamic vinegar.<br />
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I might grill a couple pork chops marinated in a lemongrass sauce for a rice noodle lettuce salad. Which is usually served with cucumber, bean sprouts, chopped roasted peanuts, and the sweet and sour and spicy dressing.<br />
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Summer is here to stay. I hope we all get some glorious weather with just the right amount of rain.<br />
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Please join us for a fun filled Harvest Monday hosted by Dave at <a href="https://happyacres.blog/2020/06/01/harvest-monday-june-1-2020/" target="_blank">Happy</a> Acres.Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-67223030160327448092020-04-10T20:53:00.000-07:002020-04-10T20:53:26.189-07:00Onward With The Garden, Better Late Than NeverSo we decided to do a garden this year, even though last year was an unmitigated disaster. Last year I killed off my seedlings by over-fertilizing, then winds from a tornado blew apart the greenhouse, and then nothing grew because the weather was crazy.<br />
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Last week we decided to go full bore with planting because of the whole not going to the store because of social distancing thing, and then there's the possibility of inflation that could drive food prices up thing. So, on Tuesday, April 7th, my husband tilled and today, April 10th, the kiddo and I planted 9 out of 12 beds in the garden.<br />
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Tomatoes, peppers, and basil still haven't been started from seed yet, which isn't ideal but I've been too busy at work for it to impact me emotionally. Normally the lateness at starting the peppers and tomatoes would have me feeling a bit desperate.<br />
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My garden tends to be overplanted because of the high insect and wildlife pressure that exists, plants will die. It's a given.<br />
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This time around I did a lot of broadcast seeding for lettuces, greens, carrots, and bulb fennel. Then a hard-tined rake was used to lightly tamp the seeds down into the soil. I use this technique with good results for the tremendous amount of greens, radishes, and turnips I plant in the fall.<br />
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I'll probably still do some canning this year, but our main focus will actually be drying the vegetables. We've been eating a lot of internet purchased dried fruit, and my husband thought we could do the same with dried vegetables which can then be used in soups and casseroles.Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-79290171453183868402020-01-04T11:10:00.002-08:002020-04-11T21:33:05.454-07:00Chia Seed Zucchini BreadThe chia seeds add a lovely crunch and the coconut oil adds a fragrant sweetness to the zucchini bread. Poppy seeds can be substituted for the chia seeds. For vegans, 2 tbsp. of ground flax seeds in 1/2 cup of water can be substituted for the two eggs.<br />
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<b>Chia Seed Zucchini Bread</b><br />
Makes: 1 large loaf<br />
Preparation time: 15 minutes<br />
Bake time: 60 minutes<br />
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<b>Dry Ingredients:</b><br />
1 cup flour<br />
1/2 cup wheat flour<br />
1 tsp baking soda<br />
1 tsp baking powder<br />
2 tbsp. chia seeds<br />
1/4 cup walnuts, chopped<br />
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<b>Wet Ingredients:</b><br />
1/2 cup sugar<br />
1/4 cup brown sugar<br />
1/2 cup coconut oil, softened<br />
2 large eggs<br />
1 tsp vanilla<br />
1 1/2 cups zucchini, shredded<br />
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1. Preheat oven 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Rub coconut oil on bread pan, or line with parchment paper.<br />
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2. Mix the two flours, baking soda, baking powder, chia seeds, and chopped walnuts together.<br />
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3. In large bowl beat together the two sugars with the coconut oil. If your coconut oil is too firm to mix with the sugars, you can microwave it to melt it. Mix in the eggs, vanilla, and shredded zucchini.<br />
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4. Slowly mix in the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.<br />
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5. Bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Test and make sure a toothpick comes out clean, otherwise bake for an additional 5-10 minutes.Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-53146127814658579482019-04-27T08:14:00.000-07:002019-04-30T04:44:47.712-07:00Peppers from the Aerogarden UpdateI ended up with 18 pepper plants which were started from seed in the Aerogarden. There's definitely different rates of germination, especially with the older seeds taking more time to germinate. The taller peppers are actually starting to form blooms, which I find odd since they're not that tall. The eggplants didn't come up, but they were especially old seed which I'd been putting off throwing out.<br />
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I've had a couple seed starting disasters. It started with purchasing what I thought were peat pellets, but were probably coconut coir pellets. There was no information on the tray in regards to the growing medium. The trays got replanted twice, but seedlings kept dying right after germinating.<br />
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My husband thought we should try monocropping something that could just be direct seeded. I was thinking Pink Eye Purple Hull peas and some melons. A big patch of sunflowers would be fun, but that would bring out all the squirrels in the neighborhood. Or maybe, just include one row of sunflowers with long beans grown up them. My gardening plans are in a bit of disarray at this point.<br />
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We're still getting lots of rain so it'll be awhile before the garden can be tilled. There might be still time to start a few things.<br />
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<b>Edited to add 4/30:</b> I spoke to a friend about my seed starting problems and he thought I might've burned them with fertilizer, which is entirely possible. I used the little bottle of nutrients included with the Aerogarden, <b>but</b> they don't have you add any until the plants are two weeks old. I think that's probably what I did, burned their little roots.Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-55069249187422553532019-03-30T05:00:00.000-07:002020-04-20T19:16:54.277-07:00Irish Soda Bread<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lately I've been making the bread with hemp hearts, chia seeds, sunflower seeds, and walnuts. Hemp hearts lighten up the loaf and adds a creamy nuttiness, and the chia seeds add a magical light crunch that is very satisfying.</td></tr>
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A very delicious and yet wholesome bread. Dense, yet soft, with just the right amount of moisture. I used to make this all the time when we lived in Oregon, but I lost the recipe in the move. It's taken a while to adapt something that is closer to what we enjoy.<br />
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This recipe is easily doubled to make two large loaves.<br />
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I usually include seeds or nuts like sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, chopped walnuts, chia seeds, pepitas, or hemp hearts. I would definitely substitute ground flax seeds for rolled oats, if our kiddo wasn't allergic to flax.<br />
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<b>*Notes</b> on substitutions are included at the end.<br />
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This has been published on both my diet/exercise and gardening blogs.<br />
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<b>Irish Soda Bread</b><br />
Makes: 1 large round loaf, or 1 large bread loaf<br />
Preparation time: 15 minutes<br />
Bake time: 40 minutes<br />
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<b>Dry ingredients:</b><br />
2 cups flour<br />
1 cup wheat flour<br />
3 tbsp. butter, sliced into small pieces<br />
1 tsp salt<br />
2 tsp baking soda<br />
1 tsp baking powder<br />
1/4 cup wheat bran<br />
1/4 cup rolled oats<br />
1/4 cup wheat germ<br />
1/3 cup seeds or chopped nuts<br />
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<b>Wet Ingredients:</b><br />
1 large egg<br />
1 cup milk<br />
3/4 cup yogurt (I've used strawberry Greek yogurt which is quite lovely.)<br />
The wet ingredients just have to equal 2 cups, if you're going to do substitutions.<br />
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<b>Directions:</b><br />
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with parchment, or line a bread loaf pan with parchment.<br />
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2. Mix the two flours in a large bowl. Add the butter to the flours, rub the butter into the flours with your fingers until incorporated. Mix in the rest of the dry ingredients.<br />
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3. In a 2 cup measuring cup, add the egg, yogurt, and milk until you reach 2 cups. Mix the wet ingredients well, and then incorporate into the dry ingredients. The dough will be fairly wet.<br />
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4. <b>If baking in a loaf pan:</b> Using a spatula just scrape the dough into the parchment lined bread loaf pan, and smooth the surface of the dough with the spatula. Go on to step 5.<br />
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<b>If making a round loaf:</b> Dust the counter generously with flour, and scrape the dough out of the bowl with a spatula. Sprinkle wheat flour on top of the dough and with floured hands, quickly work the dough on the counter into a round. I just roll the edges of the dough under with both my hands to clean it up a bit. Place the dough on the parchment lined baking sheet. Press on x onto the top of your round loaf with a knife. It's not necessary to cut into the loaf.<br />
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5. Bake for 40 minutes at 425 degrees Fahrenheit.<br />
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6. The loaf will be a dark golden brown and should sound hollow when you thump it. I would give it an hour before cutting into it. Great toasted and served with butter and jam, hummus and cucumbers, or with mustard and thinly sliced extra sharp cheddar.<br />
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<b>*Notes:</b> Baking powder can be substituted for baking soda, but you'll need to use at least twice as much. It is important to use fresh baking powder in humid environments as the humidity in the air can already have activated it somewhat, making it less potent.<br />
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Baking soda needs an acid to activate, which is why buttermilk can be substituted for the yogurt and milk. For vegans 2 tbsp lemon juice and 1 3/4 cups nut milk can be substituted for the yogurt and milk.<br />
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Instead of an egg, vegans can use 1 tbsp. ground flax seeds in 1/4 cup water or 1 tbsp. chia seeds in 1/4 cup water. Although the chia seeds will need to be soaked for at least 15 minutes, including a minute of swirling now and again.<br />
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If you use sunflower seeds, they will turn a lovely dark forest green when they come into contact with different acidic and basic elements of the dough. It's a very interesting aspect of food chemistry.
Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-66114399953960020002019-03-28T05:00:00.000-07:002019-08-11T18:12:38.884-07:00Vegetable Coconut Curry<b>Vegetable Coconut Curry</b><br />
Makes: 8-10 servings<br />
Preparation time: 15 minutes<br />
Cooking time: 25 minutes<br />
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<b>Ingredients</b><br />
2 tablespoons olive oil<br />
1 onion, chopped<br />
2 tablespoons, peeled and minced ginger<br />
4-5 carrots, chopped into circles or half moons<br />
2 large sweet potatoes, chopped into large chunks*<br />
2 tablespoons Madras curry powder<br />
1/2 head of cauliflower, chopped into florets<br />
2 cans chickpeas, drained<br />
enough water to cover the vegetables<br />
2 tablespoons nuoc mam<br />
1 tablespoon sugar<br />
2 cups of milk<br />
1 can of full fat coconut milk<br />
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<b>Directions:</b><br />
1. Heat large pot on medium heat. Add olive oil and sauté onions and ginger while stirring, till onions are translucent.<br />
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2. Add carrots, sweet potatoes, and Madras curry powder to the pot. Sauté and stir for 5-10 minutes on medium heat.<br />
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3. Add cauliflower, chickpeas, enough water to cover the vegetables, nuoc mam, and sugar. Give a good stir. Bring to a boil, and then lower heat to simmer the vegetables for 15 minutes.<br />
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4. Stir in milk and coconut milk. Let the pot return to a simmer for 5 minutes. Check to see if the potatoes and carrots are tender. Adjust the seasonings. I usually add some nuoc mam, curry powder, or sugar.<br />
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5. Serve on top of rice or with toasted French bread.<br />
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<b>Note:</b> Madras curry powder has more heat than other yellow curries. But if you like it even spicier, add chopped garlic or a chopped hot pepper with the cauliflower and chickpeas.<br />
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*Half a butternut squash may be substituted for the sweet potatoes.Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-60129720304745804982019-03-04T04:17:00.000-08:002019-03-04T07:05:35.095-08:00Seed Starting Using an Aerogarden<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Sounds like madness? Maybe a little.<br />
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Peppers take forever to germinate for me. Our house doesn't have any of the things peppers need, like consistent warmth and bright light. So I wondered about using the Aerogarden to start seedlings. And what do you know? They make a seed starting system.<br />
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I actually got an Aerogarden Harvest model last year from my mother in-law. It's a little hydroponic system that grows plants in soilless pods. The LCD light on this thing is powerful. Like staring into the noonday sun. I had to purchase the little seed starting tray which fits on top of the little water bowl, and can start 31 plants at a time. Soilless pods and a tiny bottle of nutrient broth came with the seed starting system.<br />
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To start out I put it on a 24 hour vegetative light cycle to keep the seeds warm enough to, hopefully, germinate. With the strong constant light cycle the seedlings should grow fast. It's probably a good idea, to pot them up after just a week or two of growth because you don't want the roots to get too tangled together.<br />
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This thing is actually tiny. Less than a foot long, so it hardly takes up any counter space. The system circulates water and tells you when to add water or nutrients.<br />
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The first thing I did was wet the soilless pods with water and then microwaved them for four minutes, to kill any mold spores that might be lingering in the sphagnum peat. Then one or two seeds are placed in the premade divots in each pod. Then I covered the top of the tray with plastic wrap to help trap heat and moisture. I then set the instrument, so it knew the system was newly planted and it informed me that it'll be two weeks before the seedlings will need to be fed.<br />
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It's probably a little late to be starting peppers and eggplants. I usually start them in February to give them a few extra weeks to germinate and get a little bigger before I start tomatoes. Once the peppers are potted up, lettuces will have a go in the system. I'm hoping it'll be a good way to start lettuces regularly since we are way into salads lately.Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-84717098452605598332019-02-11T05:00:00.000-08:002019-02-25T14:06:51.487-08:00Crazy Times and 2019 Planting ListsWe've gotten 9 inches of rain in February, which is close to our record of 12 inches. Maybe this means we'll get all the rain out of the way, and things will dry out enough to plant early. Now, that would be amazing.<br />
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The plan is to have a smaller garden with less plants to give individual varieties more room to grow. Diseases were terrible last year with the wet weather, hopefully giving plants ample room will help with that.<br />
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<u>Cherry Tomato List</u><br />
Black Cherry<br />
Fat Cherry<br />
Indigo Blueberry<br />
Red Grape (F1)<br />
Sungold (Hybrid)<br />
Sweet Apperitiff<br />
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<u>Tomato List</u><br />
Black Brandywine<br />
Black Zebra<br />
Brandywine<br />
Celebrity (Hybrid)<br />
Cherokee Green<br />
Chocolate Stripes<br />
Chocolate Prince<br />
Croustralee<br />
Dark Brandywine<br />
Delicious<br />
Flame or Hillbilly<br />
Goldie<br />
Granny Cantrell's German Red<br />
Green Zebra<br />
Jaune De Flamme<br />
Marianna's Peace<br />
Peach Blow Sutton<br />
Peron<br />
Pink Berkley Tie-Dye<br />
Super Marmande<br />
Yellow Brandywine<br />
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<u>Sweet Pepper List</u><br />
Ajvarski<br />
Boldog Hungarian<br />
Corno Rosso<br />
Corno di Toro<br />
Corno di Toro Giallo<br />
Figitelli Sicilia<br />
Melrose<br />
Red Marconi<br />
Sweet Happy Yummy (F7)<br />
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<u>Hot Pepper List</u><br />
Aji Angelo<br />
Aji Golden<br />
Guajillo<br />
KimchiPhuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-53046185283083995862018-11-12T03:00:00.000-08:002018-11-12T18:40:28.574-08:00Harvest Monday, 11/12/18<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Clockwise from the left are mixed choys, Toraziroh, and Mizspoona gene pool.<br />
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Canton White pak choy. I harvested whole plants because they're overcrowded and their bed is too shaded. Even the fast growing broccoli raab in that bed is slow growing, it's just now starting to gain some size.<br />
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There's been quite a few light frosts, but I'm hoping a hard frost won't come until December. Even then I'm planning to use garden fleece and straw, if I can actually fine straw.<br />
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Please join us at <a href="https://happyacres.blog/2018/11/12/harvest-monday-november-12-2018/" target="_blank">Harvest Monday</a> hosted by Dave at Our Acres.Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-14178910897973773962018-11-07T03:00:00.000-08:002018-11-11T06:13:32.724-08:00Greens In The Fall Vegetable Garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
This is a long post about the greens I'm growing in the fall garden this year. I like to try out a little of everything, so there are lots of varieties. Friday I'll post the different bulbs and root vegetables that are growing in the other half of the garden, if it doesn't end up raining again. </div>
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These photographs are from October 25th so a week and a half ago.</div>
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This little back corner of the garden is boxed in by the greenhouse, back fence, and the little wire fence around my garden on the side of which is our shed that offers lots of shade during the winter. Bad shed! Three beds of greens are located in this area with most of them belonging to the mustard family. Asian mustards are fairly mild without the strong spicy bite some mustards are known for. These were all planted September 13th, so about 6 weeks before these pictures.<br />
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In the bed on the left you can see in front the spoon shaped leaves of tatsoi, after that is the Pot Herb mizuna with it's highly serrated leaves, and then long stately leaves of Mibuna.<br />
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The tender yellowy green leaves belong to Fun Jen cabbage. The leaves have a delicate flavor and texture much like lettuce.<br />
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An unnamed pak choi is to the left of the dark red leaves of Lady Murasaki mustard spinach, and on the right is Senposai.<br />
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From front to back this bed has Mizspoona gene pool, Senposai, Baby choi, Pechay pak choy, Yokatta Na, and Toraziroh.<br />
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The pak choys are packed close together so they're not getting exceptionally big. I go ahead and cut whole plants when harvesting to give the other plants some room.<br />
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This bed looks like it has quite a few empty spots but in reality it just has some achingly slow growing greens.<br />
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Red Veined sorrel at 6 weeks. It's still teeny tiny. I truly doubt it'll get much bigger before the first hard frost which should occur at the end of November or beginning of December.<br />
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Color Crunch pak choi mix.</div>
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Purple Stem choy sum. Choy sums are usually eaten for their flowering stalks. I've grown this a couple times and never seen it bloom, so we go ahead and harvest the leaves. </div>
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Dragon's Tongue rocket is still tiny tiny tiny. It took a long time to germinate on top of being slow growing.<br />
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Green Brigade rocket just seemingly appeared overnight, but still pretty slow.</div>
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Garnet Giant mustard. I'm curious to try this variety. </div>
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A bed of mild Asian mustards containing mizun, mibuna, and tatsoi. I'll give them another week before we start harvesting this bed.</div>
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Tatsoi is a pretty fast growing. The leaves are nice and tender but sturdier than the other two varieties so hold up to longer cooking. They're probably have a slightly stronger flavor as well.</div>
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Pot Herb mizuna is a new to me variety of mizuna. The leaves are shorter and you don't get that long pretty stem that keeps it well off the ground, but it still has the lovely serrated leaves. Mizuna usually has a mild flavor that is not at all pungent.<br />
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Mibuna. I find the stems on mibuna and mizuna tender and juicy when cooked. The leaves on mibuna can get pretty long.<br />
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I usually prepare greens as a simple side by sautéing with onions and garlic, and then add a splash of nuoc mam and some ground pepper. For a little variation I might add soy sauce and ginger, instead of the nuoc mam.<br />
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A bed of endives, chicories, and Simpson lettuce.</div>
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Pan di Zucchero chicory</div>
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Tres Fine Marairchere Olesh endive</div>
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Broad-Leaved Batavian endive</div>
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I think this is probably Black Seeded Simpson lettuce. I find lettuce seeds difficult to germinate and keep alive during hot weather, only this lettuce and the Freedom lettuce mix survived to transplant age.</div>
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Puntarelle chicory</div>
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I had just harvested the sweet potatoes from this bed, and then started planting the Freedom lettuce mix the same day but then it began to rain. I've since filled the bed with the rest of the chicories, endives, and lettuce.<br />
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The Galega de Folhas Lisas kale and Nero di Toscana kales were planted in the spring and they're still doing great. Although a lot of them have fallen over, especially when I was pulling the sweet potato vines out from under them. The one standing at the post is 4 1/2 feet tall and the leaves are incredibly massive.<br />
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Caterpillars love the big leaves of the Galega kale. I had to spray Bt a few times this summer, and then at the very end of the season the grasshoppers were at them. There were a couple harlequin bugs but nothing like previous years where they ended up being terrible infestations.<br />
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Looking through these pictures, I realized a couple of beds didn't get covered. One bed held Pink Lettucy mustard gene pool, endive, parsley, and leaf celery. The other bed has a mixture of gai laan, bok choys, and broccoli raab.<br />
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The root vegetables will get covered next time. The beets are the best I've ever grown, which isn't saying much, and the carrot tops are the biggest I've gotten while gardening in Kentucky.Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-15517955518103349942018-11-05T05:52:00.001-08:002018-11-05T06:56:15.888-08:00Harvest Monday, 11/5/18<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Toraziroh and Garnet Giant mustard. I harvested tons of greens on Saturday, November 3rd, but haven't tried either of these greens yet. I have high expectations that they'll be delicious.<br />
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Clockwise starting on the left we have Canton White pak choy, Senposai in the back, and then the flowering Gunsho choy sum on the right. We actually ate this huge colander full of greens over the weekend as a side dish to a Salisbury steak with white sauce my husband made in the crockpot. They were fantastic together served atop rice. The greens were simply prepared sautéed with onion, garlic, a splash of nuoc mam, and ground black pepper.<br />
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It finally cooled down at the end of October and we've been getting rain regularly, which means the greens are really growing now. I'll probably start harvesting radishes and salad turnips this week as well. A friend uses radishes as a substitute for potatoes in dishes, and she said her kids never knew the difference. Then again, her kids are little so maybe they just didn't know the difference?<br />
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The kale plants seeded in March are still with us. Nero di Toscana kale is pictured here along with thinnings of various pak chois.<br />
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White moth caterpillars have been a menace this year. I've had to spray with Bt, an organic method of control, multiple times throughout the season. October's temperatures have finally dropped, so hopefully the moths won't be around much longer.<br />
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I had already started destemming the Galega de Folhas Lisas kale and trimming the Tall Top Early Wonder beets before I thought to take some pictures. The leaves on this kale are ginormous and the tallest plant is five feet tall. This variety of beet is extremely slow growing, it was planted in June and these are the biggest specimens. It's probably a combination of flea beetles and our hot weather that stunted them.<br />
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Both varieties of kale are growing in the shadiest bed. I find them extremely tender, although we don't eat kale raw. They mainly go in soups or just simply sautéed with eggs.<br />
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The plan is to harvest sweet potatoes next week if the soil dries out enough. And the Siam Queen basil has been hanging on, we've been eating tons of it in pho. So good, especially with added shrimp which isn't authentic, but delicious nonetheless.<br />
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The only bell pepper I'm growing this year is Carmagnola Rosso which have started ripening, four of them got picked yesterday. They have a great flavor, but they are super late.<br />
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If I was able to plant them outside earlier, I could probably get them to set fruit before the heat caused them to abort their blooms or sterilize the pollen. The last 2 years I've had to wait more than a month after the last frost to plant peppers because the ground was too wet to work.<br />
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Spicy pablano and jalapeno peppers. Most of the jalapenos have been getting cracks in their surface, likely from the stress of this year's hot dry summer.<br />
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I was planning to stuff the poblanos with cheese, coat them with panko, bake them and freeze the extra. The jalapenos will probably get stuffed with cream cheese, wrapped in bacon, baked and frozen as well. I've never made jalapeno poppers before, but that's how a couple of friends prepare them using bacon.<br />
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The fall garden is so close to being planted. There's just three beds left to plant with greens, and once the sweet potatoes get pulled, fava beans will go in their place to overwinter. I did end up starting tatsoi, mizuna, mibuna, lettuce, and chicory in tubs, so at least they got an earlier start than usual. But we're supposed to get back into the 90's (32 degrees Celsius) at the end of the week. Ugh.<br />
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I accidently picked a couple green Melrose peppers. They're thin walled frying peppers that are very tasty cooked.<br />
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The peppers really need to be watered so they can keep setting fruit, but I've been putting it off in favor of hand watering the newly planted beds. It's been a dry hot August, hopefully September will bring us some rain.<br />
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That's definitely a typo written in the picture, these are actually Boldog Hungarian peppers. They're another thin walled sweet pepper. Melrose was earlier to ripen, but they're both prolific.<br />
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Ajavarski sweet peppers are thick walled and juicy, and they're good sautéed with onions.</div>
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A mixture of Corno Rosso, Marconi, Corno di Toro, Feher Ozon, Shishito, and maybe an Odessa pepper. I keep picking the green Shishito peppers even though they tend to be too spicy to eat, maybe eventually the weather and their innate heat will start to come down.<br />
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The only bell pepper I'm growing are Carmagna Rosso and they're taking forever to ripen. We still have close to 2 months before our first heavy frost, so they still have time.<br />
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I got the rest of the garden dug by hand and then raked over on Sunday, and then spent the rest of the day in bed.We've all been sick this weekend. Since kids are back in school they're probably sharing all their illnesses. If I'm up to it, I'm going to spend a few hours this morning planting the rest of the beds.<br />
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All the fall greens, lettuces, and peas still need to be planted. I might plant some more turnips and radishes, in case earlier plantings end up too spicy from the heat.<br />
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Please join us for <a href="https://happyacres.blog/2018/09/03/harvest-monday-september-3-2018/#comments" target="_blank">Harvest Monday</a> hosted by Dave at Our Acres.Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-4996598338672102282018-08-30T03:00:00.000-07:002018-08-30T19:51:59.720-07:00The Late Summer Vegetable Garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The sweet potatoes are rampaging through the kale bed behind them, but I've managed to keep them out of the other beds. Once the potatoes get lifted in October, this bed will get planted with chicories and spinach to overwinter.</div>
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The kale, especially the Portuguese kale with it's large leaves in the back row, have been eaten up by cabbage caterpillars. I've treated the whole bed with Bt, an organic method of control, a couple of times and they're finally coming back from it.<br />
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This was the last zucchini plant in the garden. It had managed to hang on through the hot summer. I went ahead and pulled the plant yesterday because it's infected with Powdery Mildew and squash bugs. The Striato d'Italia zucchini pictured was roasted in the oven with an herb blend and a bit of salt, still sweet and flavorful.<br />
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The Siam Queen Asian basil is massive. It usually lasts well into the cold days of fall, we don't actually cook with it but add it to hot bowls of soup. To the right is some parsley and leaf celery, the parsley is a little singed from the heat.<br />
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The seven little plants of garlic chives are still alive and the biggest plant is actually blooming. I've seen family friends eat tons of this raw as a garnish to just about every savory dish they consumed. My dad is the same way with hot peppers, he'll alternate bites of hot pepper with normal food during evening meals.</div>
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The two pepper beds have merged as one, there's some blooming Italian basil in there as well. We've been getting some heavy rains that keep knocking down a few of the pepper plants, which I'm trying to prop up with bamboo stakes. I've been harvesting enough ripe sweet peppers to have with our lunches, they're prepared by slicing and sautéing with onions and a little salt.<br />
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The carrots have come up. Last year they were planted at the end of September which was much too late. Hopefully, this batch was planted early enough to do something. They were planted on the 18th, so it took them awhile to germinate.<br />
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The other half of the carrot bed is taken up by radishes. I hope September isn't too hot for them, otherwise they'll end up extra spicy. This bed was seeded on the 18th.<br />
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There's 6 different varieties of turnips that were planted in this bed two weeks ago. The two varieties in the front are actually from old seed and took a little longer to germinate.<br />
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Half this bed is planted in Gilfeather turnips, which is supposedly a turnip and rutabaga mix. The other half has kohlrabi and fennel.<br />
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Newly germinated fennel looks just like carrots, but their cotyledon leaves are a little longer.</div>
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I forget how slow growing beets really are, kind of like kohlrabi. The Tall Top Early Wonder beet in the back of the bed was planted June 21st and a few of the roots look ready to pull. Those are leeks in the bed to the right, they'll perk up when it cools down and starts raining regularly.<br />
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I've had some trouble with flea beetles this year, which seem to like beets as much as they like eggplants. The garden got treated with beneficial nematodes last week when we had cooler weather, which should help with the flea beetles. I had to wait to the end of summer because nematodes are supposed to be sensitive to heat when they're traveling in the mail system.<br />
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This cleared out corn bed will get seeded with all manner of Asian greens and mustards.</div>
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I totally cleared out this corn bed yesterday. Our town has a free service where they'll pick up and process non-grassy yard waste into mulch. I just put the corn stalks into the alley for them. The plan is to plant snow peas and snap peas, and then fava beans will go in after them to overwinter.<br />
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There's still lots of planting to do for the fall garden. I've got to get greens, peas, and lettuces in soon. Lettuces get pretty dirty from rain splashing soil on them, most people mulch around them or plant them close enough that doesn't happen. My instinct is always to overplant and overcrowd things. When it comes to greens and such, it does seem to help keep them cleaner.Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806765669512996094.post-34810903460221896162018-08-28T08:26:00.000-07:002018-08-28T12:56:26.714-07:00Harvest Monday, 8/28/18<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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All three of these are different varieties of zucchini I picked a few days ago. I try to remember to pick zucchini while I'm out clearing the garden and seeding things that will be harvested in fall and early winter, but a few were definitely left a little too long.</div>
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I picked a bunch of sweet peppers last week. We mainly grew sweet peppers this year with the only spicy peppers being jalapenos and poblanos, although Shishito and Padron peppers can get fiery hot as they ripen in our climate.</div>
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The dark red top-shaped peppers on top are Odessa and the orangey red top-shaped pepper on the bottom is Feher Ozon. I have to admit, the Odessa peppers are much sweeter than the Feher Ozon pepper which has a sour-ish end note. I've only eaten them raw, and perhaps Feher needs to ripen longer.<br />
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Of the long peppers, Melrose is a shorter wrinkly blunt-nosed pepper. There's quite a following in regards to this pepper which is a thin-walled frying pepper. I've tried the pepper raw and the flavor and texture was just, eh. But sautéing it with onions and it becomes something else entirely. Flavorful and incredibly sweet, my husband and I ate the Melrose peppers and onions on top of rice, and that was all it needed. So good. And a bonus for this variety is that the plants are productive.<br />
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I've been carefully saving seeds from our peppers, which have been disease free this season and tend to be in general. There have been very few pollinators around this year, but it's probably possible for peppers to accidently get pollinated by wind and such. Since I didn't do anything to isolate them, there's no guarantee they'll be true to type since I grew gobs of varieties.<br />
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Padron peppers tend to just be fiery hot in our climate, and Shishito peppers can be the same if left on the plant too long. The few tiny young Shishito peppers that have been edible after frying up with sea salt in a little olive oil, were quite wonderful.<br />
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We're still getting the occasional zucchini from our plants of both the Butta (F1) yellow zucchini and Striato d'Italia zucchini. Other than that, peppers, herbs, sweet potatoes, kale, and cutting celery are the only things left from the summer garden. I'll be sharing pictures on my gardening transitioning into fall in the next couple of days.<br />
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Sorry, I couldn't be around much this summer. My husband had to have surgery at the beginning of July which meant I couldn't get out into the garden for weeks. Here's a few pictures from right before his surgery, and a few things during garden cleanup and the like.</div>
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Bush beans did great this year. Surprisingly there was only a little rust in their patch.</div>
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Cherry tomatoes did well this year, but the onions were terrible. Tiny tiny onions.</div>
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The green tomato on the right blushed with gold is Green Cherokee which is amazingly prolific even with all the diseases that rampaged through the garden.<br />
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I've been roasting tomatoes with zucchini and summer squash with mixed herbs which was fabulous, but my favorite way to eat a tomato this year was just fresh on crackers with some soft Laughing Cow cheese.<br />
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We picked tons of cherry tomatoes this year, but the only ones that tasted great even with the wonky weather we experienced were Red Grape and Sun Gold and both are hybrids.<br />
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Lots of weird diseases in the garden this year. It was the first time I've ever seen wilt and what I suspect was Septoria leaf spot. The tomato plants never recovered after the 8 days of torrential unending rain we got. And the only large tomato that still managed to taste great this year despite it all was Pink Brandywine.<br />
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Corn and melons were a bit of a disaster. We got a few good pickings of corn, but then it rained and critters moved in. Squirrels were all over the tomatoes as usual, but something big was pulling down the corn and getting to the melons. We've trapped possums before, but I think it might be racoons.<br />
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All the tomato plants, bush beans, and onions have been pulled. I've hand dug those beds, weeded, and started the process of fall planting. Mostly carrots in containers, beets, Gilfeather turnips, kohlrabi, and bulb fennel have been planted. I've still got salad turnips, radishes, and greens to plant. Once the corn gets cut down, more greens as well as fava beans will get planted in their place.<br />
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It's supposed to rain for a week so I've been pushing through to get the garden planted before then. Finger's crossed I can get it done tonight.Phuonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658691564062044986noreply@blogger.com13