Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has tomatoes, potatoes, greens and lettuce, peppers, onions or leeks, beans, salad turnips, cabbage and herbs. Field Notes. Brr, it feels like fall is here; the wind has a bite to it. Ken has such a long to do list he isn’t sure where to begin! He is planting for fall, picking heat loving crops, digging roots, and soon he will be getting …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has lettuce, greens, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplant, onions, garlic, beans cucumbers, celery, and fennel Field Notes. Ken has been digging potatoes, harvesting tomatoes, peppers, etc. Plants are pushing that final leg of the marathon of the growing season. Enjoy all these hot weather vegetables now as some will end with first frost. We are heading into fall crops as well Ken has been working …
This season we have a great crop of beautiful ripe peppers. I chopped and froze (no blanching) some for future use. At Ken’s request I made some ripe pepper jam, and today I made sofrito. Sofrito is a combination of vegetables that are cooked slowly with fat or oil to reduce moisture and preserve color and flavor. What started as two cast iron skillets of onions, peppers and some garlic became four small freezer jam …
On Wednesdays Ken harvests vegetables and brings them to the tubs and I clean, sort and box them up for the CSA members and the on line orders. Once he has harvested he cooks our lunch. Often he takes the culled vegetables – not cute, but still fine – and uses them. This week in addition to apple pie and tomato sauce, he made an interesting bake. A couple weeks ago he made pancakes with …
We raise eggplant. Ken often combines eggplant with other summer vegetables like onions, pepper, garlic, tomatoes, and tops with cheese for a bake. I was looking for a new eggplant recipe and tried this. Slice and salt eggplant; they will weep so you can absorb some moisture in a towel Season some bread crumbs in a flat dish and beat an egg in a …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has tomatoes, potatoes, cukes, peppers, onions, garlic, beans, beets, greens and lettuce. Field Notes. Ken transplanted fall greens. Ken starts them , moves up to 2″ soil blocks and then transplants to the garden. This means more time in that garden space for other things and more importantly transplanting a small seedling in a clean bed gives the plant a decided edge over the weeds. Ken is …
Greetings from the Garden! This CSA box has tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, peppers, eggplant, onions, garlic, carrots or beets, greens, beans, and basil. Field Notes. Ken has been pulling crops as they become less productive so he can make room for later crops. He got beds ready for fall greens, and will transplant in the next few days. He likes to let the beds rest and then rake any weeds …
It is a great pepper year here! After Ken had started the pepper seed, we had an opportunity to participate in a U W Madison seed trial program, and there were some great peppers in the trials – in addition to our usual excellent varieties. I froze a couple batches of chopped peppers for later use. Then Ken requested I make a red pepper jam. So I checked the internet and found two very similar …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, cucumbers, onions, garlic, cabbage, kale, eggplant, carrots or beets, basil and parsley As I write this on Monday, Ken is thinning the fall beets and carrots. They are varieties from a UW vegetable trial program. We have found some new great varieties in greens, tomatoes, and peppers that we would not have tried if we were not participating in the …
Last summer Ken tried something new – he chopped and froze bell peppers. Peppers do not require the blanching that most vegetable do. Previously we dried pepper slices in the dehydrator, and I often used them in things like chili and stews that I cooked for a long, low temperature on the wood cook stove. Frozen peppers do not need to be re hydrated, and can be placed in a dish just before serving to …
