What are You Eating from the Garden?

[digitS']

@Gardening with Rabbits ,

. raspberry leaf tea tastes like ..

. raspberries .

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

@Gardening with Rabbits ,

. raspberry leaf tea tastes like ..

. raspberries .

She put some kind of peach syrup in it. LOL

 

[ducks4you]

Apples!! These are Johnagolds, a hybred developed ~30 miles north of me at the University of Illinois College of Aces, so I Know it will do well in my backyard.
Pls ignore the weed mess. I see the weeds as a challenge and I intend to post before-after photos on my thread, soon!

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

Finally have watermelon! I also enjoy a fresh jalapino on my pizza yesterday. Today I made a pumpkin pie using the last of our pumpkin we harvested last November.

 

[ducks4you]

Wow, @Cosmo spring garden , how did you store last year's pumpkin?

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

Wow, @Cosmo spring garden , how did you store last year's pumpkin?

@ducks4you nothing special. They were in our den which is in the front of the house and it faces north so it stays cooler. But the pumpkins were on a shelf. I saved all the seeds so if anyone wants some seeds let me know! This is a cross pollination between a butternut and a long Island cheese, so it looks nothing like either . I tell my husband, it has my body shape, short and stout.

 

[flowerbug]

@ducks4you nothing special. They were in our den which is in the front of the house and it faces north so it stays cooler. But the pumpkins were on a shelf. I saved all the seeds so if anyone wants some seeds let me know! This is a cross pollination between a butternut and a long Island cheese, so it looks nothing like either . I tell my husband, it has my body shape, short and stout.

i can't tell what is going on here, did it spoil and you cooked it anyways or did it get cooked with the seeds in it or ?

the squash i normally grow will not keep this long and we don't have good storage for them so i bake them up eventually and then i mash a bunch of them together to get a good blend and then i bag it up and freeze it in blocks that we can then eat for the next however many months/years.

as it looks like we may not get a huge amount of squash this season that might be a good thing that we have some left in the freezer.

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

i can't tell what is going on here, did it spoil and you cooked it anyways or did it get cooked with the seeds in it or ?

the squash i normally grow will not keep this long and we don't have good storage for them so i bake them up eventually and then i mash a bunch of them together to get a good blend and then i bag it up and freeze it in blocks that we can then eat for the next however many months/years.

as it looks like we may not get a huge amount of squash this season that might be a good thing that we have some left in the freezer.

Not rotten. The squash in the picture is not cooked.. The fibers in the seed cavity were dry. The squash smelled and tasted great!
Last year I had a squash that lasted until late July! I plant the seeds from squash that lasted the longest. We don't have a root cellar or a basement so I'm trying to grow veggies that lasts longer at room temp.

 

[digitS']

... I'm trying to grow veggies that lasts longer at room temp

It looks like you are accomplishing IT, Cosmo!

I have had some success storing squash on the kitchen floor. It isn't an ideal location because that floor is cleaned fairly often and they have to be moved in & out (or, out and in ).

Storage doesn't work very well in either room in the basement. There must be quite a lot of science behind produce storage. The  curing prior to storage, also. Some of it may be the growing of squash that is well suited both for storage and, simply, the growing environment.

Steve
who thought he was doing well in July to have 2021 carrots and parsnips from, first, an outdoor clamp through the winter and then in the crisper drawers of the carport fridge

 

[flowerbug]

Not rotten. The squash in the picture is not cooked.. The fibers in the seed cavity were dry. The squash smelled and tasted great!

that's amazing! i'd have not thought that just looking at it.

Last year I had a squash that lasted until late July! I plant the seeds from squash that lasted the longest. We don't have a root cellar or a basement so I'm trying to grow veggies that lasts longer at room temp.

i agree with you there!

i've never even heard of Long Island Cheese squash before.