2015 journal of the gardens

[majorcatfish]

just a little tease from the garden.
blue mash potatoes, garden peas and meatloaf with gravy.....

 

[majorcatfish]

while watering this evening found a couple red bangkok peppers, yup their wickedly hot going to make some great pepper flakes

yes being a old fart they are waaaaaaaaay to hot raw....thank goodness we people who do like them...

 

[majorcatfish]

update 7/19/15
since i will be out of town for the next week told dw out to the gardens and give her the rundown on the watering routine. while out there dw sid the cucumbers are getting bitter so picked one yup bitter so while she was picking tomatoes and eggplant i picked and pulled up the plants while pulling found a bunch of cucumber beetles stopped want i was doing and sprayed the cucumber plants went around and sprayed a few other plants. finished pulling and dragging them to the slash pile.

sprayed and spread some sevin dust where the cucumbers were, once back will start some more cucumbers and the winter squash and replant..

here's today's pickings. dw is going to make tomato sauce and the rest i will take to work on the way out of town and put them in the cold room will call my helper in the morning to put them out. dw says theres another bucket of tomatoes and eggplant to be pick mid week she will make eggplant ragu and soup and put in the freezer

the sweet corn is filling out very nicely. and the yellow beans should be almost ready to pick once i get back...

 

[Smart Red]

That looks yummy. Not sure about the egg plant, but they are good looking eggplants.

 

[majorcatfish]

That looks yummy. Not sure about the egg plant, but they are good looking eggplants.

We like the taste of the white or the purple eggplant

 

[thistlebloom]

Very nice pickings Major! Do the white eggplant have a different flavor than the purple? They sure are pretty things.

 

[Nyboy]

Being of Italian background my mother made eggplant a lot. My family loved it, I was never a fan of it. last week was having dinner with a friend, she ordered the eggplant. She made me try it, was surprised how good it was. I think it all depends how you make it.

 

[majorcatfish]

Very nice pickings Major! Do the white eggplant have a different flavor than the purple? They sure are pretty things.

They have a sweeter taste to them corpared to the purple

Speaking of purple eggplant was driving down hwy 701 to the motel of course this is cotton,soy bean,field corn,cucumbers growing area one farmer had a couple arces of nothing but purple egg plant using the Florida weave method... That was a new one for me might try that next season

 

[digitS']

It boggles my mind trying to imagine my eggplant large enuf to use French weave support

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At one time, I thought only purple eggplant would become bitter. I learned that stress on the plant results in bitterness. Stress and bitterness may simply be from age .

Eggplant is a great sponge. It absorbs the flavors of whatever it is cooked with. Good flavors, good eggplant ... Now I'm just talking through my culinary hat .

Steve
who has pretty good looking eggplants this year, considering history

 

[journey11]

Eggplant has really grown on me over the past couple of years. Those white ones are beauties! I will have to branch out and try them.