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re: 2026 Spring Garden Thread
Posted on 6/10/26 at 8:56 am to TeddyPadillac
Posted on 6/10/26 at 8:56 am to TeddyPadillac
quote:no but the jalapeños freeze dried beautifully. I’m not sure what I would do with freeze dried shishitos I have discovered I really don’t like them all that much
Have you tried freeze drying the shishitos?
. I have a bush full of cayennes though when those turn red they are getting freeze dried for crushed pepper flakes 
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Posted on 6/10/26 at 1:09 pm to cgrand
quote:Dang, this may be the earliest report of them I have ever read.
I realized there was a nest of yellowjackets in it
Posted on 6/11/26 at 9:41 am to cgrand
Second wave of cucs just will not live. Oh well.
Posted on 6/11/26 at 10:23 am to AlxTgr
I have a beautiful wall of cucumber vines and I’ve picked two
Posted on 6/11/26 at 10:37 am to cgrand
Posted on 6/12/26 at 5:57 pm to AlxTgr
today’s haul
the purple cherokees are one fine sandwich tomato…I’ve had two a day for a week. Bunny bread, mayo, salt and pepper
the purple cherokees are one fine sandwich tomato…I’ve had two a day for a week. Bunny bread, mayo, salt and pepper
Posted on 6/13/26 at 10:05 am to cgrand
Has anyone grown red kidney beans?
Posted on 6/13/26 at 10:22 am to cgrand
If you are just doing tomato sauce it isn't a big deal. If you are adding onions, peppers, etc. to make a real pasta/marinara sauce is where people say you can't. I put up about 4 gallons of straight sauce (tomatoes pulverized and de-watered) in jars. I've always wanted to jar a pasta or marinara sauce. This year i just made the pasta sauce and froze it in flat freezer bags. I may not jar any this year.
Posted on 6/14/26 at 8:14 pm to secondandshort
hopefully he likes squash
Posted on 6/15/26 at 3:13 am to cgrand
Any of y'all plant cushaw (a type of winter squash)? It was commonly planted years ago.
I'm 82. All my life my family planted cushaw. For anyone not familiar with cushaw, it's very easy to grow, very productive, and produces numerous usually very large cushaws. It keeps a long time if allowed to stay on the vine until full maturity when the skin is very hard. It runs a lot, probably more so than pumpkin or butter nut squash, and being so easy to grow and productive it's a great vegetable for a child to plant. Even the smaller ones are pretty large. A butter nut would be very tiny compared to a typical cushaw. The most common cushaw is green striped, although there also is a solid white type.
We usually cooked cushaw as either a casserole or we'd cut the raw round part (with seeds and soft part removed and thrown away) into good sized pieces placed on a baking sheet with the skin side down, add spices, butter, sugar or syrup, to the top of each piece and bake until done. The neck of the cushaw was used for a casserole or pies.
Here's a couple of links to cushaw recipes.
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LINK
I'm 82. All my life my family planted cushaw. For anyone not familiar with cushaw, it's very easy to grow, very productive, and produces numerous usually very large cushaws. It keeps a long time if allowed to stay on the vine until full maturity when the skin is very hard. It runs a lot, probably more so than pumpkin or butter nut squash, and being so easy to grow and productive it's a great vegetable for a child to plant. Even the smaller ones are pretty large. A butter nut would be very tiny compared to a typical cushaw. The most common cushaw is green striped, although there also is a solid white type.
We usually cooked cushaw as either a casserole or we'd cut the raw round part (with seeds and soft part removed and thrown away) into good sized pieces placed on a baking sheet with the skin side down, add spices, butter, sugar or syrup, to the top of each piece and bake until done. The neck of the cushaw was used for a casserole or pies.
Here's a couple of links to cushaw recipes.
LINK
LINK
Posted on 6/17/26 at 4:32 pm to Longer Tail Tiger
calling squash season a wrap
I already have a freezer full so if anyone has a suggestion as to a good place to give these away I’m all ears. About 4 gallons of lemon squash and a dozen very large rampicante.
not a single moth sighting…no adults, no eggs, no nothing. I am flabbergasted. And also sick of squash.
no guarantees but if you have given up on summer squash maybe give these two a try.
I’ve got watermelon (sugar baby) and red okra seedlings ready for the now vacated bed. Also I pulled all the sunflower stalks now that the squirrels have eaten all the seed heads. Black oil sunflower seed is the ticket…easy germination, beautiful flowers and big thick stalks that stay upright
we picked all the ripe and almost ripe tomatoes before this deluge, going to make another batch of gazpacho (HIGHLY recommend) and puree/freeze a bunch
I already have a freezer full so if anyone has a suggestion as to a good place to give these away I’m all ears. About 4 gallons of lemon squash and a dozen very large rampicante.
not a single moth sighting…no adults, no eggs, no nothing. I am flabbergasted. And also sick of squash.
no guarantees but if you have given up on summer squash maybe give these two a try.
I’ve got watermelon (sugar baby) and red okra seedlings ready for the now vacated bed. Also I pulled all the sunflower stalks now that the squirrels have eaten all the seed heads. Black oil sunflower seed is the ticket…easy germination, beautiful flowers and big thick stalks that stay upright
we picked all the ripe and almost ripe tomatoes before this deluge, going to make another batch of gazpacho (HIGHLY recommend) and puree/freeze a bunch
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Posted on 6/17/26 at 7:52 pm to cgrand
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I have a beautiful wall of cucumber vines and I’ve picked two
You've probably got a variety that produces mostly male flowers. The traditional varieties tend to do that for some reason. Most cucumbers are not like tomatoes where the flower has both male and female parts in the same flower. Things like heat stress, too much or too little rain will prevent them from producing enough female flowers to produce fruit.
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