I may be a
corn pimp, but I'm not a very good one.
Well, ok, I sort of take that back. The full results are not yet in, but in today's garden roundup I have the first sampling of our sweet corn. The good news is that my corn sex experiments were somewhat fruitful resulting in very sweet corn that tastes fresh from the field just like I remember growing up. The bad news is that we had some stunted growth and development. One side of my short little cob was perfect. The other side was a little sad. But hey, it was all worth it for the corn snob to get her truly fresh from the field corn this season! The grandparents would be proud I think - even in these suckers could never be sold at market.
Other exciting developments are happening in the squash family. The first butternut squash are ripe and
being used in the kitchen. And the pumpkins are taking over. We have one vine climbing up the pine trees (with several blossoms and even one fruit starting!), several green pumpkins about to go orange, and that little sucker in the lower right? He's sprung up in the compost pile where we threw out the pumpkins we had on our porch last year. I love recycling.
And of course, the tomatoes are giving forth in their end of season burst of ripeness. If you need any ideas to use up yours,
just click on the
links. The garden is getting weedy and leggy (because the gardener is getting lazy), but it keeps on giving, particularly my herbs. I'd badly neglected them, but realized I had plenty of basil poking through the weeds for a quick batch of pesto for the freezer as well. I just whir up some garlic, salt, pepper, any kind of nut you desire, the basil and olive oil to desired consistency before freezing - wait to add any cheese until you're heating it to serve.
Enjoy the produce while it lasts!
Well, ok, I sort of take that back. The full results are not yet in, but in today's garden roundup I have the first sampling of our sweet corn. The good news is that my corn sex experiments were somewhat fruitful resulting in very sweet corn that tastes fresh from the field just like I remember growing up. The bad news is that we had some stunted growth and development. One side of my short little cob was perfect. The other side was a little sad. But hey, it was all worth it for the corn snob to get her truly fresh from the field corn this season! The grandparents would be proud I think - even in these suckers could never be sold at market.
Other exciting developments are happening in the squash family. The first butternut squash are ripe and being used in the kitchen. And the pumpkins are taking over. We have one vine climbing up the pine trees (with several blossoms and even one fruit starting!), several green pumpkins about to go orange, and that little sucker in the lower right? He's sprung up in the compost pile where we threw out the pumpkins we had on our porch last year. I love recycling.
And of course, the tomatoes are giving forth in their end of season burst of ripeness. If you need any ideas to use up yours, just click on the links. The garden is getting weedy and leggy (because the gardener is getting lazy), but it keeps on giving, particularly my herbs. I'd badly neglected them, but realized I had plenty of basil poking through the weeds for a quick batch of pesto for the freezer as well. I just whir up some garlic, salt, pepper, any kind of nut you desire, the basil and olive oil to desired consistency before freezing - wait to add any cheese until you're heating it to serve.
Enjoy the produce while it lasts!
2 comments:
Well look at you farmer Mollie! Great job on the garden this year.
I may be more excited fro the squash than the corn
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