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| Banandangees | Mar 6 2005, 10:58 AM Post #16 |
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Lynne, I'm late in getting back to this, I had cataract surgery last Wed and haven't been on the Internet too much lately. I admire the description of your garden. Gardening can be so enjoyable once you get into it and I am just a neophyte - as old as I am I haven't tried growing cabbage yet, although I should as we like golumpkies. I use a recipe that we used when I was in college, borrowed from the grandmother of one of our Pittsburgh area roommates . Four of us shared an apartment (all veterans and a little more independent). Every other weekend we would make two pots of golumpkies, one with sauerkraut and one without. While they cooked, we would spend some time at the local Ratskeller in State College, PA participating in the TGIF ritual. By the time Monday rolled around, we were usually ready for something different. I do grow some cauliflower, brussels sprouts and broccoli though, although they aren't my most favorite eating vegetables. I love winter squash so we grow some butternut and acorn. My daughter and grandaughter like the summer squash. We grow a few pumpkins and my wife will "fry up/bake" and salt the seeds which are a nice snack. Our corn is done a little different from your method. We put about 2" of water in a large pot, bring to a boil just as you would if you were going to steam the ears to eat. We fill two sides of our sink with ice water (cube it), husk the corn, steam about a dozen ears at a time just as you would for eating off the cob, take the ears out after three to four minutes of steaming and immediately dip the ears in the ice water. Using a knife or one of the trough type tools, cut off the kernels, bag them in zip lock bags and immediately to the freezer. At Thanksgiving and Christmas, the corn tastes just as good as fresh steamed sweet corn. Sylvia, Thanks for the Piccalilli relish recipe. My wife copied it and is going to give it a try. The chicken wire sounds easier to work with than heavier wire cages. For 100 plants, I would suppose you would want to store the heavier cages for use every year, which for me would be a problem as I seem to have more things laying around the barn than I need. |
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| Little Kopit | Mar 6 2005, 11:30 AM Post #17 |
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Banan, I don't use wire. I have 38" long sharpened stakes, hammered 1 ft into the ground with a little mall. I tie up the tomato plants with 1/2 a panty hose (one leg of same). That stretches and gives, but does not cut the branches!!!! I tie one end onto the top of the stake. First, I tie up the stem of the tomato plant. Next, when it gets to the point where it's likely to fall over, I take the nylon around the plant and tie it back to the end attached to the stake. Works. But you have to prune. Re. green tomato recipe. This is very popular in Nova Scotia. It is called chow there. I have done it so others liked it. Not for me. I have a carrot relish, my some good pickles (also an NS recipe0, & sweet gherkins Stocking Up I & Stocking Up II, but not Stocking Up III by Carol Hupping. Available at amazon.com. The last I do as a relish. I also use vanilla in that. I suppose I should put these recipes up in seasonings. RE. corn and freezing I know they say one should cool all blanched vegetable immediately, but as one person with the volume I do, I have to skip something. Re. cabbage, you could do summer cabbage for freezer and cole slaw and winter cabbage for sauerkraut. I used to love the sauerkraut I made. Enough for now. |
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| Heathertee | Mar 6 2005, 12:33 PM Post #18 |
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Sulvia, your recipe for picallilli is almost the same as mine that I've made for the past 40 years, only I use brown sugar and some turmeric. Once you've made tartar sauce with this, nothing else tastes quite so good. Banandangees, hope you're thrilled with your new vision. It takes awhile to get perfect. My Mom can see better than I can, now! I would love to have you post the recipe for golumkies (sp?) in Seasonings. I used to have lots of friends in the Falcon's Nest in LaPorte, In, and greatly looked forward to their annual dinners. The potato and cheese ones were my favorites. I can't grow corn here; not enough room and too many hungry critters that would get it before we could. I did grow it in Indiana and had great success with it. I froze lots of it each year as you do. Nothing like that taste of summer in the dead of winter. I also grow eggplant, which is so sweet from the home garden, it is like a different vegetable form the ones you buy in the market. Also, nothing seems to bother it but potato beetles and they are easily discouraged. |
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| Little Kopit | Mar 6 2005, 01:16 PM Post #19 |
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Heather, you are so lucky to have eggplant. I love baked eggplant. Remind me to post that one (in season or out). If I had known in Nova Scotia what I know now about plastic mulch. Does anybody grow husk tomatoes? I got them going one year here, but did not get a crop. They are in one of the Little House books and in The Little House Cookbook. I think that is another veg. for pickles.
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