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harvested last week about 1250 bulbs selling some pickling abunch cooking with the rest
Green Squall
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Anyone know if unripe butternut squash is edible? I accidentally broke one off while rearranging the vine.
St. Phatty
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A Sunflower that grew in a fruit tree pot.
And some Creeping Myrtle/ Vinca that is being used to replace the blackberry.
I'm real careful to only water the Myrtle. Don't want to encourage the blackberry, it doesn't need encouragement.
And some Creeping Myrtle/ Vinca that is being used to replace the blackberry.
I'm real careful to only water the Myrtle. Don't want to encourage the blackberry, it doesn't need encouragement.
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PDX Dopesmoker
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This angelonia was the only one of 10 seeds in the pack which made it to maturity. This is about 4 months worth of growth.
Very pretty blossom with some nice trichs
This is the trichomes on a breed of mutant petunias.
Very pretty blossom with some nice trichs
This is the trichomes on a breed of mutant petunias.
Rico Swazi
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Nice PDX! excellent color and clarity. 
Does it smell like a butternut? We tried to make soup out of some that had 1/16" to 1/8" green under the skin with very little smell.
wasn't very good but yours may be more ripe? Hope so. Ours was very bland to say the least
Does it smell like a butternut? We tried to make soup out of some that had 1/16" to 1/8" green under the skin with very little smell.
wasn't very good but yours may be more ripe? Hope so. Ours was very bland to say the least
Green Squall
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Nice PDX! excellent color and clarity.
Does it smell like a butternut? We tried to make soup out of some that had 1/16" to 1/8" green under the skin with very little smell.
wasn't very good but yours may be more ripe? Hope so. Ours was very bland to say the least
I ended up tossing it. There's so many on the vine, I didn't mind losing one. However, I did see some recipes online of people cooking them similar to fried green tomatoes. And someone else said it tastes more like summer squash when unripe, but can be rough on the digestive system. Even the shoots are edible apparently which I though was interesting.
Rico Swazi
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Good tip G.O. Joe , the wife an I were jonesing for some soup so we gave it a try.
We knew we should have waited for it to ripen more but such is life
That would be a deal breaker for sure. thanks for the insight
Do you grow any other varieties of squash Green Squall ?
We've steered away from butternut and acorn squash and mainly grow sweet meat as the others don't store as well as the sweet meat do. Heres one in the hugelbed
and a few more are growing among the tomatoes
speaking of maters, they are taking forever this year to ripen
these are indigo cherry drops
We are also growing mortgage lifter and brandywine but they will be another couple weeks before they are ready
Green Squall
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I had one buttercup growing, but it got infected with some kind of vine borer. The butternut meanwhile was untouched. I'm going to grow a lot more next year since squash is one of my staples and will definitely look into the sweet meat. It looks like a good variety.
Cucumbers are producing nicely as well. I got the canning type this year and have been making a lot of lacto fermented pickles with enough extra to give my mother. I'm still waiting on my lunch box sweet peppers to ripen and I'm also happy to say there is no sign of end blossom rot of my tomatoes. And of course swiss chard - my favorite green. I really scaled back the garden this year and its nice to only have a small area to take care of.
Cucumbers are producing nicely as well. I got the canning type this year and have been making a lot of lacto fermented pickles with enough extra to give my mother. I'm still waiting on my lunch box sweet peppers to ripen and I'm also happy to say there is no sign of end blossom rot of my tomatoes. And of course swiss chard - my favorite green. I really scaled back the garden this year and its nice to only have a small area to take care of.
St. Phatty
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Just imagine a planet where bugs in fruit & vegetables is seen as a PLUS.
Extra Protein - what's not to like ?
It's all TRAINING. We might make a terrible face if we force ourself to eat a bug or worm.
But there are cultures where these things are delicacies.
No pesticides = No Monsanto ?
Give me some bugs !!!
Green Squall
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Vine borers are exactly what they sound like. They infect and eat the lower part of the stem, killing the plant, however when it comes to eating insects for protein, I've always been a advocate for this. I think it could make a huge difference with the food crisis in many parts of the world. We just need to come up with some nifty names. For example, we could call grasshoppers and crickets "Land Shrimp." I know a lot of people have phobias about eating bugs, but to me, it just makes sense.
https://www.the-scientist.com/daily-news/opinion-bugs-can-solve-food-crisis-43066
https://www.the-scientist.com/daily-news/opinion-bugs-can-solve-food-crisis-43066
Rico Swazi
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Been hit or miss for me with the buttercup also. I like the butternut except the short storage life which is why I keep going back to sweet meat.
Lucky you to be getting cukes in numbers, mine, like the maters are just slow to bring the goodies.
We are debating on bread and butter or just plain pickles this year. No BER on the maters here either but would trade a dozen of my maters in a new york minute for a just a couple ripe ones!
Here are a couple pics of the sweet meat from last year. If you like to roast seeds these are very tasty. The plants growing now are from those seeds. The flesh is very close to that color in the second pic. Appropriately named sweet meat. Makes a great 'pumpkin' pie
I do not ever eat crustaceans and I call them water bugs, because that's what they are.
I'm growing nothing this year because last year 10 heirloom pie pumpkins took over the back yard and it was just continuous waves of pests and pestilence right to the end. The yield was small because of theft and light pollution, but it would have been nothing without spraying with Sevin every few days after they were established.
First came the conspicuous adult borers looking to lay eggs. Then the squash bugs, then the aphid-farming ants. No hippie fairy dust would have saved those pumpkins.
Green Squall
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Do you have any experience growing Kabocha squash? It has a nice texture when baked of roasted, but I'm not sure how well it stores.
Here's one of my butternuts. Knife blade is 3.45 inches for scale.
Green Squall
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Not ripe until it turns tan and has a brownish stem. I have some others that are closer to harvest, but they aren't as big. I agree, pureed soups are great, along with some fresh baked bread.
St. Phatty
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On a baby apple tree, made the mistake of not removing the price tag, which was zip-tied to the baby stem when I bought it. 6 months ago.
The tree is about 3/4 inch now. It was pretty constricted.
Time to Splint the Fuck out of it ! ! !
Managed to get her roots into their new home.
It's a Winesap apple tree.
The tree is about 3/4 inch now. It was pretty constricted.
Time to Splint the Fuck out of it ! ! !
Managed to get her roots into their new home.
It's a Winesap apple tree.
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Rico Swazi
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hurting for certain St. Phatty, thats deep into the cambium bro, hope it makes it
Beautiful butternut, bet it was good along with the bread. Never grown a Kabocha but reading up on it sounds like something I wouldn't mind growing.
some pics from the garden (seems like a distant memory already)
got several cauliflower this size, knife is 9" long
edamame like grape clusters, fall crop of cauliflower to the left
late season golden jubilee corn did well
jimmy nardellos and king of the north peppers were prolific but the weather kept them from ripening on the plant.
frozen bags are 2 1/2 pounds each, there are more peppers to be harvested
These are some of the success stories, the failures I'll show after the tears stop fallin. (Spoiler alert- cool wet weather left six cantaloupe on the vine watery and unripe) There are others.
anyone doing any fall/winter crops?
Beautiful butternut, bet it was good along with the bread. Never grown a Kabocha but reading up on it sounds like something I wouldn't mind growing.
some pics from the garden (seems like a distant memory already)
got several cauliflower this size, knife is 9" long
edamame like grape clusters, fall crop of cauliflower to the left
late season golden jubilee corn did well
jimmy nardellos and king of the north peppers were prolific but the weather kept them from ripening on the plant.
frozen bags are 2 1/2 pounds each, there are more peppers to be harvested
These are some of the success stories, the failures I'll show after the tears stop fallin. (Spoiler alert- cool wet weather left six cantaloupe on the vine watery and unripe) There are others.
anyone doing any fall/winter crops?
