Posted on 09/25/2021 5:16:56 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Interesting! I’ll bet ‘The Squash Queen’ has an opinion on Cushaw Squash! ;)
This season I grew Amish Pie Pumpkins. I have my eye on some ‘Long Island Cheese’ for next season, as they’re supposedly good keepers, small seed cavity and bright orange inside.
I still have squash in the freezer from last year - I need to make Pumpkin Sauce and a few pies and clear up more room for the 1/4 steer I’m picking up this week!
IMO, Empires are the best eating apple going.
Cortlands are good for salads because they don’t turn brown when exposed to air. They stay nice and white for salads. I do like munching down on a Cortland, though and I do find them tart, but that’s half the fun. Not as bad as Granny Smith’s though.
I remember as kids my dad would buy those and we’d cut them up and eat them with a bowl full of sugar to dip them into.
Any recommendations for a compact cabbage plant?
The ones I grew this year were HUGE, the plants, not the cabbage heads.
I would like something less prone to take over the garden that still produces a respectable size head.
And I am avoiding hybrids at all costs. I want to be able to save the seed. I realize that may preclude a compact plant.
Any recommendations on a good OP butternut squash with good long term storage?
I am jealous of that steer!! My niece was raising 2 beef cows, but decided to take advantage of the hot real estate market and sell her house/”farmette”. They had plans to build their dream house in a couple of years, but moved the plans up to take advantage of the market. The cows had to be sold because they are living with her husband’s parents while the house is being built and their new acreage had no fences or anything where they could keep animals. I am very disappointed because I was looking forward to grass-fed liver, maybe other organs, and some really good beef cuts!
I am heading to the processing plant this afternoon to pick up the 1/4 beef we ordered last year, this time. When our friend Randy passed, be got bumped up in the rotation.
Been playing ‘Tetris’ with the freezer space, seeing what I’ll be able to fit where. I took some things out to thaw, enough tomatoes for 2 more batches of Salsa, and I found a ham bone in there, so some split pea soup is in the offing for later this week when it gets cool and rainy. It’s my favorite.
Happy, Happy! :)
“Any recommendations on a good OP butternut squash with good long term storage? Any recommendations for a compact cabbage plant?”
I would check out the offerings here & here:
Thank you!
Most cushaws I’ve seen were in the C. mixta branch of the squash family. I’ve grown several C. mixtas, but I’ll admit, they’re not my favorite species of squash. They tend to be less sweet, and have very little in the way of other flavors.
That said, “Tennessee Sweet Potato” is a very productive squash. I have a few more C. mixtas to test out, but if I don’t find any that really stand out, I’ll probably go back to that one. The chickens seem to like it a lot, and it does produce a ton of seeds per plant.
A bowl of split pea with ham soup is just wonderful in fall/winter weather!
I’m already having visions of Thanksgiving, our big family get-together meal. My favorite holiday.
I’m in charge of Thanksgiving this year. We’ll have to share notes. :)
Is it a non hybrid variety?
Yes.
That is a GREAT set up! I’m still picking ‘Saychelles’ a new pole bean I tried two years ago and will never be without! Doesn’t get woody and is still blooming and producing in Zone 4/5 on September 29th! I’ll bet I can get one more decent picking out of it before we get our first freeze mid-October.
Other than eating them as they came, most of mine went into Dilly Beans, which, while a pain in the butt to make, I will do again. Everyone is loving them.
I haven’t tried the Saychelles, but I probably ought to.
Kentucky Wonder was my favorite pole bean for many years, but Mom always bellyached at me for planting them instead of her favorite Blue Lake, so I switched varieties. That made Mom happy, but it cut my yield by a third compared to the KW. The BL are a bit more forgiving than KW if I’m late picking. I’ve also found the BL to be weak getting out of the ground. I had to plant four times to get this row properly filled.
I’ve got enough BL seed left from what I bought last winter to do me for next season, but after that I’m going to try something else.
Mrs. Augie and I love dilly beans, but I’ve always been too lazy to make them at home. The way prices are going up at the store that may need to change too.
“With God as my witness, with God as my witness, I’ll never be without Dilly Beans, again!” ~ Scarlet O’Diana (Gone With the Wind)
Blue Lake was a standard growing up. I’ve never tried Kentucky Wonder, but I am totally pleased with the ‘Seychelles.’ It won AAS in 2017 but was slow to get to market for some reason.
https://all-americaselections.org/product/bean-pole-seychelles/
Let me know where I can get them then if you would.
I am very interested in them.
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