Vegetables

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But we appreiciate our warm weather more on the great Lakes! Our big pond is what makes things like "Lake effect snow" and "Cooler by the lake" have meaning, pupose. Lake side communities have and extra 2 weeks on each side of the gardening season. And don't forget the Polar Bear Club! Nothing like diving into Lake Michigan in -10 temps and a water temp of 40 to really make you appreciate having such a wonder right in your own "backyard"...

Okay, I give, I would take Florida weather, just without the hurricanes......
 
Kale said:
Natloo,
Cook the pumpkin then cool and bag or bag then cool or freeze then bag then put back into the freezer? *lol

I have room!


2cups will work!

Thank you!

Kale:)
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I cook it, then cool it, then put it in freezer bags. They stack nicely too if you lay them on their sides. Just be sure you have them sealed well!
 
Whit1 said:
Duz getting two new hips in the last six years count as "preserving"? If so than ya can count my orthopedic surgeon in as a "yes".........:)
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Well...I guess that could be counted as preserving...:D I wouldn't try "freezing" if I were you!!
 
I live in South Carolina on 3 acres total. Don't have as big a garden as Gloria not by any stretch of the imagination. Now days basically keep my spring garden simple with several varieties of egg plants, several varieties of tomatoes, cucumbers, okra, watermelons, different squash, peppers and peas. The only canning I do is tomatoes, don't like the taste of tomatoes once they are frozen. I have a marinated cucumber recipe that you make and freeze that is really good if anyone would like, it's called Freezer Pickle. My husband was raised on a farm, he helps the success of my vegetable garden every year.
 
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Kale said:
Do you store pumpkin CG? Oh my you grow enough potatoes to store!??
That is just too cool!
I grow enough for maybe 2weeks.3-4 people .
How large of a place do you grow in and is it in the ground or boxes?
I only grow sweet potatoes in a bed, everything else is in large boxes, I like to think it makes pickin a little easier for me.

I wish...
Any tips will go noticed as always!


Your pal..Kale:)
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Hey Girl,
My garden is not that big. It's only about 30X70 (rough guess) anyway I have my own brand og gardening. It' kind of like the square foot rule but I have maximized on it. Also alot of people don't realize just how much you can get from your soil with organic gardening. I have always had small productive gardens. Last night a neighbor stopped by HE is 74. A year ago he gave me some peas to plant. As we talked he ask how I got so many out of that little handful he gave me. So I got the chance to share with a real old time farmer about my methods. He was amazed. He is the one that delivers grass clippings to me so now he actually see why I use them. I guess I won't get them this year.:p
Did you get a pumpkin recipe yet. I do have one.
 
I don't exactly store pumpkin, but I do something similar. Pumpkins are a squash variety, so with that in mind, here is what I do. I have grown the large Hubbard Squash, but the procedure will work for any of the winter squash. I cut the squash in half using a drywall saw or something similar. It's safer that trying to cut those hard skins with a knife. I put about a half inch of water in a large cast iron skillet and invert the half of a squash in the water. I bake that almost an hour at 350 degrees then remove the pan from the oven and carefully turn the squash over with large spoons or similar tools. Be careful! There will be some hot steam under that squash. Once inverted, scrape the baked squash from the inside of the skin and pack it in freezer containers. I use 24 or 32 ounce containers. A 24 ounce container is just the right size to make a pumpkin (squash) pie. When I prepare squash for dinner, I put about a double pat of butter in the aquash, a heaping teaspoon of cinnamon, about a half teaspoon (level) of ground cloves and a heaping tablespoon of brown sugar. Stir that in well when you thaw and heat it up for dinner. Pretty tasty!
 
Crabbergirl....Pumpkin recipes are being taken at this time..*LOL;)


Thank you Randy for the scoop.:)

24oz for a pie?:confused:

I use 1cup pumpkin per pie...
Am I reading this correctly?
I think I may be missing something...:eek:

Kale
 
Adding a few veggies

I think we are going to add a few veggies this year to the beds along the side of the house. Bell peppers, since we use ALOT of those all year and not sure what else. :confused: Has to be plants on the small side which will produce well. Gonna try a few cucumber plants (not vines) too.

Hey Randy? How did those strange tomatoes do for you?
 
DizzyDaff said:
I think we are going to add a few veggies this year to the beds along the side of the house. Bell peppers, since we use ALOT of those all year and not sure what else. :confused: Has to be plants on the small side which will produce well. Gonna try a few cucumber plants (not vines) too.

Dizz have you tried the bush cucumbers, they are great when there is limited space and the bush cucumber is not as prolific but still better than not planting any. Every year produce gets more expensive, so anything you can plant to produce food you are way ahead of the game.
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We tried the Bush cucumbers and didn't get a harvest at the Pantry Garden I organized.We had planted seed in a 40 foot row.They vined a little but no good fruit. We used new seed.I think they may need more water then the vines,I can be wrong being I was not the watering person.The lady that asked for my assistance was in charge of turning the watering system on,we had drip throughout the 7rows.
I'm guessing she needed it on longer and earlier in the morning.
Which should be done next year. Always said... early bird turns on the water*LOL
I have not grown them at home.
I would space them more then instructed if I were to grow them at home,was thinking about it but not sold on that plant,sorta like the vine which I didn't grow this past season because I was thinking that was the reason I kept getting everything but what I planted in the squash and pumpkin and cantaloupe/ watermelon families!
Turns out am my plants were not true to the seed I planted anyway!
*LOL

Any secrets on beans and peas and spinach!

I have gotten a small harvest with the beans and peas but think I should be getting more.
Spinach..simply doesn't get far with me they disappear after I get a pretty fer sets of leaves.
I want to grow spinach!!!!

Any Spinach Help out here*LOL

Thank YOU!

Kale:)
 
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Kale what kind of fertilizer did you use. For garden vegetables we use a 10-10-10 fertilizer, Nitrogen-Phosphate-Potash. It's a good all purpose fertilizer that is a slow release type. I also use some Miracle Grow liquid fertilizer for extra hump to some of my garden. Spinach isn't hard to grow here is a site that has some great info about growing spinach, http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-17.html

Good luck on your gardening.
 
Dale, (sorry,just saw this) I haven't used any fertilizers except blood meal (way less then directed on bag last year only) I do add 3 shovels full of completed compost to all beds even compost within the beds over fall and winter and now have kelp which I bought to consume but it is YUKK so I put a tiny bit here and there diluted in a 32gal rainwater can.(last year) .
As far as Spinach...
I sowed 4 kinds (name and companies) of spinach this year inside and not one germinated not one.I sowed the whole packet of some!
If only they would germinate.Blue Kale didn't germinated either this year.Everything else did within dayz.
I'll take a peek at the link..
Thank you.
Again, sorry for the MUCH delayed reply!


Kale:)
 
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