TIL it’s ever so much better to pit the cherries before you bake the pie.

#baking #GrowYourOwnFood #EatWhatYouGrow #pie #cherries

Yesterday we harvested & froze 10 lbs of bok choi. That's on top of all the bok choi we've been eating for the past few weeks.

Bok Choi freezes really well & doesn't need to be blanched first.

I left some of each plant to regrow & if it doesn't stay too hot, we may get another harvest.

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#FoodForFutureUs
#EatWhatYouGrow
@homegrownfood

@MCDuncanLab
I'm hoping there's some of those sunchokes you gave me among all these weeds!
And also hoping they can stand a lot of competition!

#gardening #sunchokes #eatwhatyougrow #eattheweeds #permaculture

Cannot wait to harvest the broad beans! #growyourownfood #eatwhatyougrow

Thinned the radishes this morning. I think they’ll be great in a salad!

#InMyGarden #gardening #EatWhatYouGrow #GrowYourOwnFood

26 Jersey Knight asparagus crowns planted! They look weirdly like sea creatures, squid or jellyfish.

Sheet composting didn't work too well here. The plant material decomposed but the paper didn't. Cardboard looked brand new, didn't break down at all.

I've been more optimistic about garden soil than I am with this plot, tbh. Onward!

#gardening #compost #asparagus ##eatwhatyougrow #michigan

Happy little hopeful sprouts 🌱

Oregano, thyme came up much faster than expected. Our unheated sunroom makes a tolerable cold frame.

Sprouting peas and some kind of mustard or tatsoi. Labels washed off the containers

#gardening #seedstarting #eatwhatyougrow

Growing #okra :

What's the minimum number of plants you find worthwhile to grow?

IMO okra is like green beans, in that there's no point in growing it unless you have enough plants to produce enough to cook in batches.

But what's that minimum?

Planning how many seedlings to start, once it's time to start them

#gardening #eatwhatyougrow
#gardenplanning

@gardening A day without frost, just right to harvest a handful of the Brussel sprouts. And since we can't garden outdoors right now, we are sprouting indoors.

#EatWhatYouGrow #gardening

Last harvest of some forgotten carrots. Weather is for measurable snow tonight & I wanted to dig these out before the ground got any more frozen.

@homegrownfood

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#EatWhatYouGrow
#LocalFood

Ordering asparagus crowns soon, and wondering which variety to choose.

Particularly uncertain about ratio of male to female plants or all male cultivars. Is there a plus having female plants?

Also, purple vs green?

I'm USDA zone 6a, sandy soil heavily amended with compost.

#gardening #eatwhatyougrow #asparagus #vegetables #vegetablegarden

Wrapping up the garden after 2024’s extreme heat, rain, storms, and floods?

A DIY design to make 2025 different.
I'm a pro, but you can do this!

If you follow my posts, you’ve seen this garden. Here’s how it’s done

https://deftspacelab.com/climate-proof-garden/

#garden #eatwhatyougrow #climatechange #extremeweather #sustainability

@gardening First and last broccoli of this gardening year. I am surprised we had one at all. We ate it with great delight in a vegetable stir fry.

I planted quite the variety of crucifers this year, mainly sprouting broccoli, Tuscan style kale and Brussel sprouts. I know the sprouting broccoli survives German winters, but will the ordinary broccoli plants survive as well? Hoping for a few more sprout harvests...

#gardening #eatWhatYouGrow

I may live to regret this...

The last batch I made of Tomato jam with habanero pepper mellowed quite a bit in the jar and is tasty but not spicy.

With a glut of tomatoes from the garden & more peppers ripening by the day, I've decided to make a 2nd batch. This one with 2 habaneros & 1 jalapeño.

Also, this was by chance, but it looks like a face!

Adapted from: https://foodinjars.com/recipe/tomato-jam/

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@gardening

#PreserveTheHarvest
#StarFieldFarm
#EatWhatYouGrow
#FacesInThings

So my spouse planted way too many hot pepper plants. And they've done really well. So I went looking for recipes I could make to use up tomatoes & habanero peppers. So I found a recipe for spicy tomato jam.

Using ONE hot pepper for 5 lbs of tomatoes. LOL.

1 pepper down, several hundred to go!

#EatWhatYouGrow
#HyperLocalFood
@gardening
@homegrownfood

I'm harvesting dried beans from our pole beans for the first time this year! I'm not sure why I haven't done this before.

(Honestly, until a few years ago, I had no idea shell beans actually came from the same plant as green beans! In my defense, I grew up a city girl.)

@homegrownfood
@gardening

#StarFieldFarm
#EatWhatYouGrow

It's potato time. You know the drill...

Boil 'em
Mash 'em
Stick 'em in a stew...

We planted 5 varieties this year: purple, pinto, red, & 2 kinds of large white potatoes. The big bin is about half full & I still have more to harvest.

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#EatWhatYouGrow
#HyperLocalFood
#potatoes