Posted on 10/02/2009 3:59:53 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning to all of you gardeners. I started the clean up of my garden this past week. I am taking my time doing it. I started with my tomato plants and decided not to use them in my compost pile. I do plan on pulling up my landscape fabric and saving it for next season. I would like to plant winter rye grass in the garden but would like other advice from y’all. What would be a good cover for this area until spring?
I may drop by your place and pick up a few pumpkins! There is a shortage of canned pumpkin this year. Nobody is looking for it yet because Thanksgiving is a ways away, but if you see it, grab it.
My garden is pretty well done. The tomatoes and squash all died at once, as they picked up a mildew. I still have a pepper ripening. I hope it doesn’t rot as the earlier ones have. We also have had buckets of rain. I heard we are 11 inches over the annual amount right now, and that we had all of 11 inches in September. I am glad I live on the top of a hill.
Come on over ... there are 500 pumpkins to choose from!
Thanks. Survived, but barely. I am getting too old for this! :)
We don’t need any more rain either. My chickens think they’re ducks.
Maybe the bw’s are just here? Don’t know. Glad y’all are the ones lugging all those pumpkins.
Not knocking canning anything, but LIbby’s—at the store—in a can—already canned. :) Fresh pumpkin is about like fresh coconut. Very labor intensive.
OTOH—I have a killer recipe for pumpkin roll with cream cheese filling. :)
question for anyone who knows.......can eggplant be frozen okay?...I've got several that I can't use right away....
I just got four varieties of garlic planted this afternoon after pulling everything out yesterday afternoon. Put down some 16-16-16 fertilizer and bone meal and worked into the soil. I will water in well tomorrow and then start adding mulch. Those Inchelium garlic cloves were huge. Do yours come out that way?
Sold 230 pumpkins today, so I'm hoping that there won't be any left over for canning. Libby's is really good. There are certain things that are cheaper and easier than fresh and pumpkin is one of them. Good creamed corn is the same way. There is a brand of creamed corn sold in a plastic tube like Jimmy Dean sausage, and you can't put any up that tastes better. Canning corn is a bunch of work!
Just finished off a fresh homemade pumpkin pie tonight...mmmm-good! A friend of ours in Tennessee makes those pumpkin rolls for Thanksgiving...she should make them more often.
My wife steams and scoops out the flesh and freezes it. Pumpkins if she has to but there is a local Squash variety called Sweet Meat that is about 80/85% flesh to seed cavity and it makes the best “pumpkin” pie. We can’t grow it in Eureka but one of the market gardeners does and I purchased 3 of them this week. They look a little like a Hubbard...
Yes they are almost as large as Elephant “Garlic” which is not a garlic but is related to the Leek. I have hit a brick wall this year and can not get anything done. All I want to do is sit in the garden and sleep. Where did you get the Triple 12 and what size bag. The feed store has it in 50 0r 80 pounds bags and it collects moisture in the winter and clumps. I bought a 12# of 5/10/5 for my garlic at the lumber yard of all places...
I think the fertilizer is 16-16-16. It ia about 12 lbs and I think I got it at Home Depot. I have kept it stored in a crawl space under the house that is accessable outside right by the garden. I will check it tomorrow. There has not been any clumping so far, but the humidity here is usually low. I also applied about 12 pounds of superphosphate bone meal that was marked 0-18-0.
Bone meal should last a few years in the soil so you don’t have to apply it to that area soon. Also not all that super P is available to the plants at one time which is good. I have never heard of Superphosphate bone meal? I have some SP commercial pellets and have used lots of steamed bonemeal in the past plus the feed store has it in large sacks also. Go the eBay if you have a account do a search for “Growing Great Garlic”. It’s amazing how much you can spend on growing $20 worth of veggies...
I have one bag of bone meal left and was thinking of doing a fall application around the fruit trees I planted this year. They are Nanking Cherry, several varieties of blueberry, several varieties of plum and several varieties of apple. Some critter recently ate about half of one apple tree that was about 6 ft tall. I think it will come back in spring since it was doing so well until becoming a snack.
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Thanks. We could have set a new low temp record this morning here in Eureka as the gauge on the deck read 40 degree. My son is picking me up for breakfast in about 10 minutes and I’ll be on the Nascar thread when I get back. Keep having fun with the garden in spite of the deer. Look into a motion activated impulse sprinkler for a wildlife deterrent. Mine cost about $60 at our nearby ACE earlier this year...
Pumpkin Roll with Cream Cheese Filling
4 eggs
2 teaspoons pumpkin spice or allspice
1/2 can pumpkin—vegetable sizeish
1/2 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup sugar
sifted powdered sugar
CREAM CHEESE FILLING
3 ounces cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups sifted powdered sugar
Separate eggs. Grease a 15-by-10-by-1-inch jelly roll pan. Stir flour and pumpkin spice, set aside. Beat egg yolks, vanilla and 1/2 can pumpkin on high for 5 minutes, then add 1/3 cup sugar. Beat egg whites on medium until soft peaks form, slowly add 1/2 cup sugar and beat until stiff peaks form. Fold egg yolk mixture into beaten egg whites. Sprinkle flour mixture over egg mixture. Just combine and spread batter evenly into pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 12-15 minutes or until cake springs back. Immediately turn cake out onto a dish towel sprinkled with powdered sugar. Roll up towel until cooled. Unroll and fill with cream cheese filling and roll back up and sprinkle with powered sugar.
I give you fair warning—I only make this about once a year. It is so delicious you can’t leave it alone. I’m not sure I didn’t just dump everything in together and mix it that way. I’m not very good at following recipes. :) Very rich, very moist. I usually make 2 so I don’t end up with half a can of pumpkin and half a block of cream cheese floating around.
230 pumpkins?! Holy cow! Good for you!
We love corn and put up quite a bit this year—not enough. Haven’t seen any in tubes around here. Funny how stuff varies from area to area.
Sounds delish! We just use sweet potatoes and no one knows any different. :)
Now that you mention it I think my mother used sweet potatoes when she didn’t have pumpkins...
LOL...do a search for Sweet Potato Pie for 2,700,009 hits
Wow! I had no idea! We just use the regular pumpkin pie recipe!
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