Today's Pickings

[Meadowlark]

First freeze predicted tomorrow...so today was a good time to harvest.

The sugar snap peas probably were the most vulnerable, but I just kept going thinning out several other plants. Cauliflower, broc., cabbage, radishes, turnips, and thinning out the carrot row.

Even found a lonely volunteer cherry tomato as a bonus.

 

[DirtMechanic]

First freeze predicted tomorrow...so today was a good time to harvest.

The sugar snap peas probably were the most vulnerable, but I just kept going thinning out several other plants. Cauliflower, broc., cabbage, radishes, turnips, and thinning out the carrot row.

Even found a lonely volunteer cherry tomato as a bonus.

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That is a very photogenic pile of veggies! When in east Texas do you set those crops? I assume they are outside?

 

[Meadowlark]

That is a very photogenic pile of veggies! When in east Texas do you set those crops? I assume they are outside?

"Set" crops? Is that an Alabama expression? Thanks for the comment.

Carrots I start from seed in the ground when temps start to moderate in Oct. They then provide continuous supply from about Dec. as shown above to March as shown below. They, like the Long Island improved Brussels sprouts grow all fall/winter here and need to come out before temps start getting above 75 deg.

 

[DirtMechanic]

"Set" crops? Is that an Alabama expression? Thanks for the comment.

Carrots I start from seed in the ground when temps start to moderate in Oct. They then provide continuous supply from about Dec. as shown above to March as shown below. They, like the Long Island improved Brussels sprouts grow all fall/winter here and need to come out before temps start getting above 75 deg.

Southern slow mouth rules require me to leave out verbose or woody phrases. When do you set them out-sow-transplant etc.? Sorry to "sow" confusion with my lazy ways!

 

[Meadowlark]

Here's my fall garden:

2021 Fall Garden

Row 1 9/11	Row 2 9/12	Row 3 9/13	Row 4 10/2	Row 5 Feb.14	Row 6 Nov. 20
Bonnies best cabbage(6)	Dwarf white snow pea	Cabbage stonehead	leeks	20 pounds red potatoes	200 yellow 1015 onions and 100 red 1015 onions
Bonnies best cabbage(6)	Snap pea sugar	Chinese cabbage	brussels
Broc green magic(6)	Snap pea sugar sprint	Brussels long island improved	cabbage
Broc green magic(6)	tunips	Beet red ace	bruc
Cauliflower(6)	carrots	Detroit dark red beet	cauli
Swiss chard carrots 10/1		Spinach bloomsdale	kale
White radish		turnips	carrots

Daikon Radish (20 ft)

White Radish (15 ft)

Cherry Red Radish (15ft)

Mikhnevskaya Red Cabbage (6)

Green Cabbage ( 17)

Stonehead Cabbage (9)

Chinese Cabbage (20 ft)

Bok Choy (12)

Curly Kale (5)

Green Magic Broccoli ( 28)

Romanesco Broccoli (12)

Snowball Cauliflower (12)

Swiss Chard (5)

Long Island Improved Brussels sprouts (6)

Jade Cross Brussels sprouts (6)

Detroit Dark Red Beets (10 ft)

Red Ace Beets (10 ft)

Bloomsdale Spinach (15 ft)

Dwarf Sweet Peas (15 ft)

Purple Top Turnips (80 ft)

Danvers Half Long Carrots (15ft)

American Flag Leeks (10 ft)



All veggies stagger planted to mature continuously through winter and early spring.

 

[Meadowlark]

Today I harvested the last of my American flag leeks (Allium ampeloprasum) planted last Oct. They could have continued growing for another few weeks, but it was time to vacate that space. The American Flag leek is an heirloom variety dating back to 1870. United States Department of Agriculture.

We use them in soups, stir-fries, stews, and salads...very mild, flavorful onion taste. They fill the void when our spring onions run out and we start harvesting usually in Dec.

 

[headfullofbees]

Most folk grow leeks here over the summer & into winter, with them being bi-annual, and they can easily be as thick as your arm, but I tend to put mine in after my spuds come out in July/August because I am content with the same size as yours.
Although I prefer leeks to onions, I still use them as a stop-gap between the end of one onion harvest & the beginning of another.
Clean them. chop them & freeze them, they keep well like that for cooking purposes.

 

[Meadowlark]

May is a big month of harvest for veggies in East Texas gardens. I hope to get another 10 to 14 days of growth out of my onions but thinning the small ones now and also hope to get at least 21 more days of growth from the potatoes and robbing them now. Well over 200 pounds of each to be harvested this month.

 

[skinyea]

Meadowlark- you are living a great life.

 

[Meadowlark]

Meadowlark- you are living a great life.

My sincere thanks.

 

[headfullofbees]

I would add to skinyea's comment that you are obviously a clever grower, with deep knowledge of your climate &, obviously, how to get the best out of it.

 

[Meadowlark]

Harvested some butternut squash today...now need to figure out best ways to use it.

We've Sliced and sauteed with yellow and zucchini squash a very good use of it so far but thinking of maybe as in Lasagna and/or wontons or maybe as suggested in tortillas.

Any suggestions?

 

[Tess]

Harvested some butternut squash today...now need to figure out best ways to use it.

We've Sliced and sauteed with yellow and zucchini squash a very good use of it so far but thinking of maybe as in Lasagna and/or wontons or maybe as suggested in tortillas.

Any suggestions?

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I like the idea of using it in lasagna! I make eggplant lasagna that is really good! I'm betting the squash would be really good too!

 

[skinyea]

Harvested some butternut squash today...now need to figure out best ways to use it.

We've Sliced and sauteed with yellow and zucchini squash a very good use of it so far but thinking of maybe as in Lasagna and/or wontons or maybe as suggested in tortillas.

Any suggestions?

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I use it in chili. sub the squash for beans. it is my kids favorite chili

 

[headfullofbees]

Butternut squash is excellent as the squash in pumpkin pie.

With veg stock, potatoes, onions & ginger, blended into a tasty, but not overfilling, soup, even better with a spoon of Philadelphia cheese per person, prior to blending.