Veggie Garden 2021

[mike_belben]

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[SwampDonkey]

Boiling down the spaghetti sauce this morning. ;D

[newoodguy78]

 Chili pepines and sweet bell pepper cross will light you up coming and going .I swear it will boil the water right out of a toilet bowl .---come on ice cream :D

Now that right there is funny  :D

[SwampDonkey]

First spaghetti sauce of the year, 3 bottles this batch from 3 gallons of juice. 3 hr boil. ;D





Had a cup left over to pour on some beef stroganoff. Mmmmm!!

[SwampDonkey]

A $10 squash on today's market prices. 8) 'Sweet Momma', winter squash. 8.7" diameter, 5" tall.

[21incher]

Got the dehydrator running now that the AC is off. Drying Principe and yellow plum tomatoes. Boy do we enjoy them in the winter 


 

Red Peppers keep on coming. It's crazy this is my 3rd picking and there are still many left. The Ajvarskis have provided over 2 bushels from  8 plants so far. Picked and roasted 60 pounds again yesterday.


 

 

Going to harvest sweet potatoes tomorrow. Can't believe the size of the plants but I read in rainy years large plants can lead to small potatoes. They look like 3 ft tall hedges now.


 

Pie pumpkins and butternuts are ready also. Hard to keep up this time of the year.

[ESFted]

Chinese Python Snake Beans from Baker Creek (No affiliation).  Planted four places in the bean house because the missus told me I grew too many pole beans...just wanted to see if they lived up to the hype.  They did.   Scared the heck out of the neighbor who came over for some jalapenos, and they don't taste too bad. ;D



 

 

Update:
These things are getting out of hand.  I may have to break out the 12 gauge!


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[21incher]

Do you eat those beans? What do they taste like?

Dug up the sweet potatoes today and what a surprise over 150 pounds from those 20 slips that survived. Spread out in the garage to start curing now. Some aren't pretty but are big.


 
This one was the winner at over 4 pounds 10 ounces. Pretty good for my first try at growing them.


 

[mike_belben]

sweet mother of potato. 

[ESFted]

Do you eat those beans? What do they taste like?...

Very edible.  They are apparently a staple in Indian cuisine.  Check for Snake Gourd recipes.  I tested a couple of smaller beans with a recipe found on 'The Google'.  Scraped off the waxy white coating (easy), and then sliced and sauteed on the Blackstone with garlic, onions and peppers.  Eaten by themselves they tasted like a cross between cucumber and green bean....mild flavor, but tasty.  The flavor got lost when everything was combined.


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[Mooseherder]

Salsa time.  Half of the bowl gone.  ;)


 

 

[mike_belben]

That looks pretty good MH, whats the recipe?

[beenthere]

Salsa time.  Half of the bowl gone.  ;)


 

Mooseherder knows how to make great salsa.. proved to several of us in the UP at Nailhead's (in memoriam) camp back in 2007.

[newoodguy78]

Not much better than homemade salsa 👍

[Mooseherder]

That looks pretty good MH, whats the recipe?

This was a double batch yesterday because of the whack of tomatoes.
Usually 8 tomatoes diced
Half a medium size onion diced
1 jalapeño minced
About 3/4 cup chopped cilantro
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 teaspoon salt.
Cover and let stew on counter for 3 hours then eat or refrigerate.  Lasts about a week.
Optional
Olive oil
Hot sauce.
Bell pepper
The bunch of cilantro from store can make 2 or 3 batches.   I try not to make it overpowering.   You can add more tomatoes if it is.

[mike_belben]

:screenshot:  

digin1

[SwampDonkey]

Quite a crop of sweet potatoes.

Awesome looking salsa MH.

MMM, fried snakes and sausage. :D

[SwampDonkey]

Picked this sweet momma tonight. 8)

9.2" diameter, 5" tall.

[21incher]

Do they store well?

Picked about  250 pounds of butternuts today. Cut back and only planted 3 hills this year but they  really  did good. Picked another  mess of pie pumpkins and gourds also. Darn bees are bad and aggressive now when you rummage through the vines.

[SwampDonkey]

Yes, they are good into December when stored in a cool dry spot. The coolest I have is the basement in the 60'sF. If you had a spot in the 40's they would keep even longer. You have to make sure you don't disturb the stem. After the December they get darker and wetter. I don't remember loosing any to rot though, but I only grow about a wheel barrel full. Once we cook one up we freeze what isn't eaten. They make nice pies to. I've been hankering for pie with ice cream on top. Real ice cream, not that bean gum and agar crap. ;D

[Al_Smith]

For some reason I can't seem to grow squash except yellow crooked neck . ???

[SwampDonkey]

For some reason I can't seem to grow squash except yellow crooked neck . ???

Lots of composted manure tilled in, some fertilizer to and water, full sun to, Al. ;)

[thecfarm]

That's a good looking squash!!! And than some!!!

[mike_belben]

wow.. i thought i had a lot of butternut.. thats a bumper crop squared. 

[21incher]

The woodstove is surrounded with some of the pie pumpkins and gourds


 
some of the butternuts hardening off before going in the root cellar. They last till Easter


 
My only Halloween pumpkin that grew



Curing sweet potatoes in the grow tent. Have to keep them 80 to 85 deg and over 80% humidity for 10 days then around 65 deg for 10 days to sweeten them up and form a skin for long storage. 



Finally the end is in sight.