How do you open an acorn squash? Or a huge Cinderella pumpkin? I usually pull our big cleaver from the magnetic knife strip. I hold it with both hands and smack at the tough skin. The squash rolls and I try to right it. The cleaver gets stuck and I smash down further anyways....
Read more →We visited the other garden last Tuesday. Look what we found: Corn!! Corn that hides Lil the corn princess! Ears of corn with tassels! Corn with whispy leaves taller than me! Baby squash lacing through the corn and… …heart shaped sweet potato leaves winding their way through the squash! Our community garden plot is...
Read more →Today we ate our last winter squash harvested over six months ago. It was bitter and I’m sad about that. I wondered exactly what is left in our larder. Here’s the count as of March 9, 2010: 8.5 quarts applesauce 10 half pints tomato paste 3 quarts tomato sauce 12 quarts whole tomatoes 2...
Read more →One of the most satisfying plants to grow, in my opinion, is squash. Zucchini, summer, acorn, butternut, pumpkin, and the like are all tremendously easy, delicious, and big. Sometimes size does matter. Squash seeds send out large leaves just a few days after direct seeding. The leaves grow big and wide quickly. Kids love...
Read more →What’s growing? Everything! Well, almost everything. Peppers are starting to mature and we are eating them as we need. If we keep them on the vine, they will ripen to red, which is fine by me. We have tons of green tomatos on the vine. A very few have started blushing red. One cherry...
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