Zucchini season....
annie1992
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Sour tomatoes and bitter Zucchini?
Comments (7)Did you plant tomato in pots? Potted tomato takes more work in order not to be stressed. My tomato are planted in the raised beds so it's easier. I've only experienced sour tomato in the winter. Like farmerdill mentioned, cold weather and under nourishment will do that to toms. I think in your zone 6, summer should be warmer than ours (last summer it was mostly 70Fs here). But just in case, you can add black cloth around the root area to increase soil temperature. The store bought zukes you tasted was probably stressed or of bitter variety. The one time I had bitter zukes was when I turned off irrigation and forgot to water. If you give them enough water and fertilize them, you'll probably be fine. That is not to say these are the only causes. Give them a try again and see if they improve this year....See MoreNot Enough Zucchini
Comments (10)I used zucchini from small to large table size (no baseball bats), the large ones work fine and give a decent size chip. The little ones give a tiny little chip, which is delicious, just smaller. Slicing the small zucchini on the diagonal makes a larger chip. I sliced them thin. The thinner the dried chip is, the crunchier it is. But wafer thin slices end up sticking to the drier and tear when you take them off the tray. One thing to know, if you've never dried food before, is to do the seasoning very lightly. As the food dries, it gets smaller and the seasoning is concentrated. I'm still waiting for one to get away from me and grow to baseball bat size so I can grate it up and make zucchini bread. No luck with that yet....See MoreSo what is everyone doing with all that zucchini
Comments (39)Here is another idea for you. I made these a couple of months ago and will probably make them again soon. Home Cookin Chapter: Recipes From Thibeault's Table Stuffed Zucchini ================ Hollow out Zucchini. Saute onions and garlic, add the ground pork, the inside of the zucchini, Arborio rice, season with dill, parsley, lemon zest, seeded and chopped tomatoes and chicken broth. Cover and simmer until the rice is almost cooked and the broth reduced. Stuff the zucchini. Place stuffed zucchini in a pan with a little chicken broth, cover and simmer until the zucchini is tender. Avgolemono Sauce Rather than make the traditional Avgolemono sauce enriched with eggs, I make a sauce using: 3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour 3 cups of chicken broth Salt Pepper Juice of one lemon Lemon zest optional Make a roux using the butter and flour. Add the chicken broth and when the sauce is cooked add the juice of one lemon and the zest if using. Season with salt and pepper and serve over the cabbage rolls....See More2017 Garden Progression Thread
Comments (12)New veggie (to me anyway) that is very good even raw: bolting daikon radish stems - stems are smooth and sweet, leaves a bit rough and the whole has a tiny bit of a bite for additional interest. I have been pulling them as the flowers get ready to start opening. This would be a lot like broccoli raab. Many varieties of daikon and other winter radishes will bolt if spring planted. I expect some will be more pungent than others, but the daikons I have had are very good tasting, both sweet and mild. Next spring I will plant a bunch of fall daikons just to get the bolting stems. Tomatoes are starting to come in. I plant mostly the "two bite size", for example Burpee's 4th of July, planning to eat them as snacks while working in the garden. 4th keeps setting fruit all season. Next year I will try to add Glacier which is said to be very similar but is OP. The first sweet banana peppers stated to turn red and then were eaten (as fresh). The plants are stretching for more blooming. Just two plants this year, a lot more next for sure. I was hoping that scented geraniums (aka mosquito plant) would keep the tree rats out of the tomato I planted in the big pot. Didn't work, not even with a chicken wire skirt. BTW that kind of geranium roots real easy; I broke off stems to plunge into the potting soil on all sides and they all seem to have taken without any extra care. Fall broccoli and cabbages have been transplanted. Fall radishes are up and have been thinned. Earlier daikons are starting to push up in the row and build diameter; some are pushing an inch (they would be much larger, but they got planted later than I like). I love daikons. Sweet potatoes are vining nicely, but I didn't get the black landscape fabric down. Hoping for decent roots anyway (fingers crossed!). I will take some stem cuttings again this fall like I did last year. They root real easy in water and vine like pothos or philondendrons. Some of the root types have real interesting foliage - some ivy leafed, some real deep cut, some with various colors. You don't have to sacrifice interesting sweet potato foliage to also get roots. Garlics are cured and bagged, now waiting for fall planting. Multiplier onions, too. Tree onions are ready to collect the topsets and then dig the roots. Fun time of the year for sure!...See Moreparty_music50
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