#vegetable patch

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Growing Tip: Red Kuri Squash Harvest

The last time I told you about my Squashes, a litlle over three months ago, I was very happy about my growing Red Kuri Squash, and hopeful about my butternuts...

It turns out no butternut squash grew from these beautiful flowers in my Bean and Squash Square, but my Red Kuri Squash got slightly bigger and heavier, and a deeper orange colour over the Summer and the beginning of Autumn. 

I kept watering it regularly, oftener when it was hotter, never directly on the vine (or the fruit), but at its feet. Over time, the vine browned; I kept the squash on it nonetheless. It seemed happy!

And today, I finally cut it from the vine and harvested my first (and only) squash, a beautiful 475-gram/1.05-pound Red Kuri Squash!

Given the proper Adventure growing Squashes has been over the past few years, I am absolutely delighted with my little harvest this year. I have learned, I have been patient and I have persevered, and I have a gorgeous little squash as a reward! 

And, as growing this one has taught me heaps more, perhaps next year’s crop will be even more successful!

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much to see in the garden in the last week

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These are just a couple views of that Georgian house’s environs. (previous post) 

I wish I had land to farm and cultivate. I believe hard, physical labour, that connects us to the earth, is insurmountable in its benefit to our mental health. 

Oh to have a garden! Living four stories up with no connection to the earth and with no view of anything except half thought out buildings is NO FUN! So I’ve stuffed as many houseplants in this little flat as possible. But still, I’d like to have my knees on the earth and my hands in the soil.

“To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime’s experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not width. A gap in a hedge, a smooth rock surfacing a narrow lane, a view of a woody meadow, the stream at the junction of four small fields - these are as much as one man can fully experience.”

- Patrick Kavanagh, a great Irish poet who always found the beauty and the magic in the seemingly ordinary.

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Corn Patch Birmingham Botanical Gardens Birmingham, Alabama August 13, 2022

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What happens in your vegetable patch might seem disconnected from the gardens around you.

"Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy" - Matthew Evans

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Garden Report & Frugal Living 23.11.16

Once the torrent dissipated, I was able to sneak out to look at the veg patch. Before the rains, the neighbor's cat had taken up sandboxing one and rolling obscenely in the other (crushing and breaking everything). It was the later that I was most concern with. No spiders to contend with now, not that I mind them but I don't think they like getting tangled in my hair and dropping off in the house to starve. The little tom I cut back and was coming back so grand was beat/waterlogged to a slimy pulp. The plywood I had protecting the hanging potted strawberries had a good deal of its white paint removed (now I have white flakes all over the garden path! chips of man-made snow). The radish, collards and mustard I planted mid summer are going to be harvest to table ready. The others that I planted last was little leggy sprouts. Some just white squiggles on the soil where it had washed out. Thankfully we don't have to survive on what I grow!

Bronte decided that indeed she was going to be ultra-pathetic and go into a deep molt. The other two finished up and all fluffy warm for winter.

Worms are still waiting on me (or any one!) to split the bins and get it winterized. They never complain.

I am lacking in the processing of things for the winter pantry. I found a patch of oregano that I had overlooked. I cut that back and laid it out on top of the dehydrator. Meanwhile, finished up the bog berries in the dehydrator (dreaming of future muffins and crumble or maybe even some tea). There was a winter squash that nobody liked (dry and mealy) that got popped on parchiment in the drier so it would be saved to make a creme of winter squash soup later. Some potatoes that were baked and not eaten were peeled and popped into the drier. The little cherry and pear toms I harvested last, finally went into the drier. Any of the seeds that spilled out on the glass cutting board were spread thin and blotted up with paper toweling to be saved for next season's seeds. This time of year, its a cycle of left overs from the garden or the table (not seasoned in anyway). Vegetable that are good but I know will turn in the next week before we can consume them, to the dehydrator! So those last two points are my Frugal tips for this report.

In another month the seed catalogues will be coming out. I might try to grow black futsu as there were none to be found this year. I have not been successful in the past but thinking maybe with some sort of heat collector or something to retain heat and reflect more light (water jugs wrapped in aluminum foil and circle round like a wagon train? idk)? I've gotten butternut to grow once but for some reason, global warming is not happening here but the opposite ... its a wee bit too cooler in the summers and the fog layer seems to hang heavy and longer.

So there you go! Hope those that can grow are doing it and for the rest of us, looking forward with hopeful dreams of the next gardening season.

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Vegetable Garden Landscape An example of a mid-sized mediterranean full sun backyard gravel landscaping.

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Vegetable Garden Landscape An example of a mid-sized mediterranean full sun backyard gravel landscaping.

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Mediterranean Landscape - Landscape

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Beautiful day for Gardening 🍃

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Do you have any recipes for the harvest season when I have too many zucchini, tomatoes, and beans in my house? Thank you for all the great recipes, may your kitchen always bring you joy ✨

Hello!

Thank you so much for your lovely message! It really does warm my heart!

Here are a few recipes you can make with your tomato, courgette (zucchini) and bean gluts; I hope you'll find them helpful!

Garden Pistou Soup (Vegan) (Green Beans and Tomatoes)

Spicy Panzanella (Vegan) (Tomatoes)

Flan de Courgettes (Vegetarian)

Salade Niçoise (Green Beans and Tomatoes)

Anchovy Stuffed Courgettes 

Niçoise Stuffed Zucchini

Tian (Vegan) (Tomatoes and Courgettes)

Tomatoes Provençal

Ratatouille (Tomatoes and Courgettes)

Skipjack Tuna with Courgettes and Tomatoes

Basque Vegetable Rice (Vegan) (Tomatoes and Courgettes)

Cold Mint and Cilantro Courgette Soup

Feta Green Bean and Cherry Tomato Salad (Vegetarian)

Courgette and Tomato Beans 

Chervil Courgette Pickle 

Whole Peeled Tomatoes 

Happy cooking, dear! And I wish you the same, heaps of joy in your kitchen!

xx

PS: I realise I assumed you meant green string beans; but if you are looking for broad bean or kidney bean or white bean recipes, let me know!

xx

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"baby" carrots in Taiwan. Right from the field.