Edibles '10 - Part 3

Better practice the quote thingy, NuttyD!

Dnut, it's much colder than the rest of the state.....my son's town is on a high plateau.....always 5-8 degrees colder than my town, & it's not very warm here in the winter....the first year he moved up there, there were piles of snow in May.....I'd like to see no snow this winter.....sigh....

oh thanks RD.

Forgot to take a picture of the taters and i've eaten half already! LOL

White pumpkin

Orange pumpkin and a bit deformed, not a good year for me and pumkins :(

Purple pepper

Brian's 4lb Cauliflower...yup he weighed it! LOL

You can't see them all but there are 2 zuccini and 22 Buttercup Squash in this picture. The sad part is I have already given away 10 BC and haven't even picked the butternut yet!!!

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Bet you couldn't give away the zuccini! LOL

Canned pasta sauce last night from all the Romas I've frozen over the past weeks. Looks like I have late blight so there won't be anymore canning to do.

Trying an experiment this year - picked two bags full of Amaranth - Hopi Red Dye seed heads and trying to dry them and collect the seeds and then find some way to cook them and eat them. The recipies say to pop them like pop corn - but they are tiny with a little t.

Fabby harvest Pixie. I harvested my potats. Only got a couple dozen from 8 plants. Seems hardly worth it. Hmpphf.

Pixie, loved all the things you grew.....winter squash is very healthy, unless you put lots of butter & maple syrup on, which is, of course, what I do!

brown sugar & butter works too

:)

Something is eating all my cabbages! It is a little late to fence them off now that they all have nibbles out of them.

Cabbage worms? Fencing wouldn't help.....

Maybe really tiny fences

No it is something big knawing the cabbage. At first it was only one cabbage - now it has taken a bite of all of them. Ungratefull little so and so.

Neighbors??

Coleslaw addicts?

Sleep Walking?

Maybe a skunk . . .

O then you need a disco ball and flashing strobe lights YankeeCat. Worked like a charm on Peppy and Peppermint and you can dance too.

Sounds like a plan!

I think I have a disco ball somewhere . . *rummaging around*

The critter that has been eating my cabbage tried to climb in my window last night! It scrambled up 3' of siding to get to the livingroom window where I was sitting! Pesky little 'possum! Probably hunting for figs in the tree outside the window. Must be hungry if it is resorting to veggies. LOL (Thank goodness it isn't a skunk!)

oh geeze

Poor possums....I've seen many in the road lately.

Time to pick "pumpkins".

That would have scared the life out of me

The first time I had dealings with a possum, I was scared. Now I am just curious.

Just play dead.

good one!

Memory I think they usually avoid people... maybe the thing has rabies

Exactly what I was thinking.

maybe give a call to your animal control

Yank I found this...maybe try some of the deterrents?

Possums are commonly found in suburban areas, where they are often considered pests owing to their habit of eating fruit, vegetables, flowers and tender young shoots from gardens, and nesting in roofs. The loud hissing, crackling territorial call of the male common brushtail may also be a problem for suburban residents. Natural deterrents, which play upon the possum's acute sense of smell, are often employed to discourage them. These include cloves of garlic, camphor or naphthalene.

I have lots of garlic! Thanks Celeste!

still canning t's - lots still out there

Sounds like work!

it is - worth it later