Veggies for breakfast, lunch & dinner. You can't have too many vegetables. I just looked up Courgette & it is what we call a Zucchini. I love Squash & Zucchini sautéed in butter with salt & pepper. I must really like vegetables as I just capitalized three of them. 😃
It's funny I always prefer the Italian name od foods that also have a French name but not when it comes to тиквички (tikvichkee), which is the Bulgarian word. I am highly motivated to find more ways to cook and eat them. 🤘
Squash soup can be sealed and frozen. Most squash seeds are good roasted with a bit of salt - we do it with pumpkin. We used to get loads of pumpkin cheaply after Holloween - farmers couldn't sell them if they weren't perfect for jack-o-lanterns. Soup, pie filling frozen or canned, and lots of seeds roasted and bagged, to last months. .
Yes. I’ve tried to roast them without stripping off all the “guts,” and it didn’t work well, although a little bit of that stuff roasted in with the seeds doesn’t seem to hurt them, it seems to be a little bitter sometimes. Once the inside is all scooped out, we roast the squash fruit. I clean the seeds in a bowl or sink full of water, they usually can be just squeezed off. I roast and eat them in the shells on a baking pan with the fruit for just a few minutes. I’ve never tried to shell the seeds, and only find them shelled from commercial sources. Usually it is pumpkin, crooked or goosneck, or large acorn squash, bought commercially since we don’t garden much any more.
Yep, if I want to grow any kind of squash, including pumpkins and zuchinni, I must dust with Sevin once a week and immediately after any rain (or watering). Otherwise those cursed borers infest the vines and they start dying from the borer location outwards.
Because I'm likely to water the vegetables every other day in the heat of the Summer, it becomes something of a chore (or became, haven't planted the vegetable bed in several years).
It is very disappointing to be watching a lovely pumpkin mature and then a borer kills its vine before it can finish.
Yes, and doing that in a rainy year like this one is neigh on impossible. I also don't want any Sevin in my garden (I do know it works). I heard trellising works, tried it, NOPE they ate it anyway. Some people net them and put in pollinating wasps. But dang, do I want zucchini THAT bad? I might try a fall squash garden this year.
I think the obsessive avoidance of pesticides is misguided. But to each his or her own.
My parents ate their garden vegetables until my Dad stopped gardening some time in their late 80s and my Mom lived to be just shy of 90 and Dad was a few weeks short of 97 when he passed. And, no, never any cancer or bizarre neurological disorders in either one.
Dad never shirked with the Sevin dust.
Mom gave the vegetables a rinse before preparation. Its not like the stuff impregnates the fruit.
I like to grow sweet corn as well, and without a regular dusting during silking, one ends up with those disgusting worms in the ears.
I've tried releasing lady bugs and preying mantises and no doubt they reduce pests, but not enough to make a noticeable dent in the pest predations.
Probably some weirdo who liked the taste of a cucumber dipped in vinegar. Got drunk one day and dropped his cucumber slice in the glass and forgot about it for a month...
I met a woman once, a sexually-deprived, willowy liberal whose pantry was clear full of canned pickles. Two strikes too many. For all I know she’s still deprived…
I don't like those things plus cucumbers and the eggplants. I love pumpkins though. You're crops look lovely! Keep it up
Thanks, Jusper! I hated eggplants until a few years ago and then I had a delicious revelation. 😁 Love them!
If you like eggplant you need to try Baba ganoush. It is delicious.
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Veggies for breakfast, lunch & dinner. You can't have too many vegetables. I just looked up Courgette & it is what we call a Zucchini. I love Squash & Zucchini sautéed in butter with salt & pepper. I must really like vegetables as I just capitalized three of them. 😃
It's funny I always prefer the Italian name od foods that also have a French name but not when it comes to тиквички (tikvichkee), which is the Bulgarian word. I am highly motivated to find more ways to cook and eat them. 🤘
Those boats sound really good!
They’re a breeze to make! Will add recipes.
Gadzooks! - or zukes in this case. Usually for us the zuchinni compete with the cucumbers.
Consider soup for the the squash and roasting the seeds.
Soup is a good idea, yes!
Squash soup can be sealed and frozen. Most squash seeds are good roasted with a bit of salt - we do it with pumpkin. We used to get loads of pumpkin cheaply after Holloween - farmers couldn't sell them if they weren't perfect for jack-o-lanterns. Soup, pie filling frozen or canned, and lots of seeds roasted and bagged, to last months. .
I do love eating the roasted seeds. Do they need thorough cleaning before drying and roasting? Because I'm lazy.😁
Yes. I’ve tried to roast them without stripping off all the “guts,” and it didn’t work well, although a little bit of that stuff roasted in with the seeds doesn’t seem to hurt them, it seems to be a little bitter sometimes. Once the inside is all scooped out, we roast the squash fruit. I clean the seeds in a bowl or sink full of water, they usually can be just squeezed off. I roast and eat them in the shells on a baking pan with the fruit for just a few minutes. I’ve never tried to shell the seeds, and only find them shelled from commercial sources. Usually it is pumpkin, crooked or goosneck, or large acorn squash, bought commercially since we don’t garden much any more.
This doesn't sound too hard. Thanks!
We have the horrible "vine borers" here in the southern states. How I hate them! All curcubits are their prey.
Yep, if I want to grow any kind of squash, including pumpkins and zuchinni, I must dust with Sevin once a week and immediately after any rain (or watering). Otherwise those cursed borers infest the vines and they start dying from the borer location outwards.
Because I'm likely to water the vegetables every other day in the heat of the Summer, it becomes something of a chore (or became, haven't planted the vegetable bed in several years).
It is very disappointing to be watching a lovely pumpkin mature and then a borer kills its vine before it can finish.
Yes, and doing that in a rainy year like this one is neigh on impossible. I also don't want any Sevin in my garden (I do know it works). I heard trellising works, tried it, NOPE they ate it anyway. Some people net them and put in pollinating wasps. But dang, do I want zucchini THAT bad? I might try a fall squash garden this year.
I think the obsessive avoidance of pesticides is misguided. But to each his or her own.
My parents ate their garden vegetables until my Dad stopped gardening some time in their late 80s and my Mom lived to be just shy of 90 and Dad was a few weeks short of 97 when he passed. And, no, never any cancer or bizarre neurological disorders in either one.
Dad never shirked with the Sevin dust.
Mom gave the vegetables a rinse before preparation. Its not like the stuff impregnates the fruit.
I like to grow sweet corn as well, and without a regular dusting during silking, one ends up with those disgusting worms in the ears.
I've tried releasing lady bugs and preying mantises and no doubt they reduce pests, but not enough to make a noticeable dent in the pest predations.
I can't imagine what the inventor of pickles was thinking. 🤢
Probably some weirdo who liked the taste of a cucumber dipped in vinegar. Got drunk one day and dropped his cucumber slice in the glass and forgot about it for a month...
Takes all kinds.
I met a woman once, a sexually-deprived, willowy liberal whose pantry was clear full of canned pickles. Two strikes too many. For all I know she’s still deprived…
Nice, juicy, sweet-and-sour cukes for the winter is what I tend to think when I hear "pickles". :D
I think “byak” and feel the retch rising, think of removals from every burger I ever ate, think, “what the hell is wrong with some people”