When you were showing your produce and the cabbage that was munched by the cow I decided this years sauerkraut maybe should be called ‘red cow ‘r’ kraut! 😜 Sorry, moms sense of humour! Haha!
From an old southern Gramma where yellow crookneck squash are a staple... harvest those when they are young and about 4 inches long so the skin is thin and tender and the squash is sweet.
I make a casserole with ‘em. Onions, blanched and squeeze-drained crookneck squash, butter, tarragon, velveeta cheese and Japanese breadcrumbs (maybe a little chicken base)😊
I love love love your videos! I am a very active person and love gardening. Not quite as much as you but I still love it!! 😂 when I need a moment to breathe I sit down and enjoy one of your videos. I have learned so much! I appreciate you and your beautiful ranch!
I have to try a pb&c sandwich! Those crooknecks make a wonderful casserole. Slice, and parboil five pounds of yellow squash, drain and partially mash the slices a little bit. Drain the excess water. Add a 1/4 cup chopped onion, 1/4 cup sugar, and a 1/2 cup melted butter and 2 beaten eggs. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Put in a greased 9×13 casserole and top with breadcrumbs. Bake in a 350 (180 C) degree F oven till lightly brown on top 30-40 minutes. It's yummy.
What beautiful sunflowers.. I’ve never seen those colors before the light pink one reminds me of a Gerber daisy … awww 😍 I can not get over your HUGE cauliflower… I had to show my husband and he was in awe … Do u pickle cauliflower.. come to think of it I think I did watch a video where you did… *Perfection* on everything ☀️🙌. A field of poppies would be SO BEAUTIFUL😍
Before my health took a dive I used to have a garden similar, not quite as big. But I loved taking walks and seeing all the new life in the garden. So "going along with you" brings Mr such joy!!!
Great stuff Chelsea, I would go nuts if our growing season was that short and didn't have a greenhouse or two. You are doing a great job there sister. We are in the process of standing up 4 more 148-foot greenhouses out here giving me a total of 10 so we will be busy building them for most of the fall and winter. Take care and keep the content coming. I don't get much time to comment but I am still following along. Chuck
I sooo love the high tunnel every year as it changes.The tomatoes look so good now and I remember the year so many could not ripen before the fall so this will be amazing for this crop to get going. Love it. Crazy cucumbers wow. So much of everything looking so beautiful! But that cauliflower!!! Going to be trying that sandwich I love both and probably really really healthy for us as well. Hugs and what a haul today. xo
I put a tbsp each dried, ground eggshell and epsom salt in half my tomato plants and those grew three times the size and produced way more fruit that same year than the ones without. Surface area matters, the smaller it is, the easier it breaks down
What a wonderful harvest; your weeks of hard work have certainly paid off for you and your family. I enjoy following your progress from start to finish.
1st time I’ve heard of PB&C sandwiches. I’m jealous, I finally pulled up my crookneck plants this morning. I have terrible luck growing them but I keep trying!
Here in Santa Barbara, California: Our tomatoes are almost done- have abt 12 more on the vines🍅…Our Meyer Lemon🍋 trees are full of green small lemons due to mature in December!! Our Zinnias are Glorious🤗❣️Love those beautiful different- colored Sunflowers 🌻 🌻🌻❣️🥰❣️
Love these harvesting videos and the reveal and progress of everything. Just gorgeous and it's gotta be so very rewarding growing these beautiful foods for your family's health. The foods reward your hard work in their beauty as they grow bountifully and then again in the joy of harvesting, preserving and consuming them. Thanks Chelsea for sharing this lifestyle with it's hard work and rewards for us city dwellers (New York, USA).
A nice video, thank you! Listening to someone talk about what needs to be done is nice and informative, but it's the watching of it actually being done that is enjoyable for me. So thank you again.
Agreed! As a southern the crook neck yellow squash are best harvested small. My favorite way to eat them are oven roasted or pan sautéed, of course battered and fried is good…just not as good for us (in excess). I thin my tomato plants too, but it’s more for air flow due to humidity here in the south US.
I like cucumbers, but my husband does not. So I only planted two plants. And oh my what a harvest I have had, to the point, I am going to dehydrate cucumber chips with ranch powder dressing. As I am running out of ideas. But I might have to try the cucumber peanut butter sandwich.
Hi Chelsea, oh my god thank you! I am not the only one who loves a smooth peanut butter, salt and pepper cucumber sandwich, on fresh bread so good! I’m from Australia and my best friend thinks I’m nuts! I love pickled cucumbers and Giardiniera (sotticeti) or even German cucumber salad. 🤤
My mother adored peanut butter and slice bred/butter pickles. I don’t think she thought of using cucumbers. But I like cucumber on tomato sandwiches w/ mayo.
Omg I gotta try the peanut butter cucumber sandwiches! Mom always made us cucumber and dressing sandwiches as kids. Ive been preserving a lot of cilantro with peppers onion salt and vinegar, food processer n into freezer baggies. To this once its thawed add tahini and maple syrup as a go to for everything sauce. Great video as always!
Cucumbers are one of my favourites, particularly as perimenopausal. We use them cucumber, mint & garlic gazpacho, great for cooling your body, cucumber ferments (particularly Korean style), cucumber salads (with sesame), we even use cumber instead of crackers for Cheese or for serving nibbles - eg cucumber with a little anchovies, or olive paste on it. One of the most underrated and versatile plants! Yummeeee!
I’m just cracking up watching this today Chelsea because I planted all the variety’s of cucumbers, melons and peppers you mentioned too this year!! All seeds from west coast except the king of the north which I saved my own from last year. I also did Tyria and Picolino cucumbers and they have been absolutely unreal. For such a cool spring I’m amazed what we have been able to grow!! Best melon though I have ever grown or tasted this year is the kajari melon I think I got from Baker creek soo good and short enough for our growing season!!
I really envy your lack of pest pressure on your garden. I live in the south in the US and boy oh boy do we have the bugs. We have a longer growing season but the pests get most of it by the end. Great harvest thanks for taking us along.
I was thinking the same thing, I thought we had bad bugs and spiders in Connecticut and so much more in the south. I was ignorant of multiple growing seasons until I started watching Cog Hill Farm on YT located in Alabama. Have a nice evening.
What an absolutely lovely harvest!!! Gosh- it always astounds me how much quicker y'all get frosts. I really feel like we don't get GOOD frosts until January. We might get a tickle here and there in December, or if it's a particularly wild year November might see near frosts, but it's so much warmer in fall here! Geography is strange. I've never tried a pb&c, but you know what, that doesn't sound bad at all.
Am I the only one thinking FRIED GREEN TOMATOES seeing all of them just hanging there? I had to start planting double what we normally need just to satisfy the fried green tomato craving. 😃 You should try Spray-n-Grow. It is so easy to use. We use a pump sprayer & give everything a good drink once a week or so according to your plant's needs. As for varieties, I first always look for the word Heirloom on the label. They, for us have always been prolific producers & we had tomatoes years back that grew like vined plants. It was the craziest thing. I like peanut butter & french's yellow mustard. Never thought about cucumber/peanut butter. We do like cucumber & mayo sandwiches though.
My hands hurt just looking at that table😂😂😂 but.. my belly is rumblin too so.. to work we go ❤❤❤ that one sunflower is biggest i have ever seen!! Thats bigger than your head😮😮
The more that you collect zinnias flowers and cut them frequently they will produce more flowers each time they’ll continue to keep blooming until the frost fits. You’ll get a whole lot more flowers if you start cutting the flowers and making bouquets and enjoy. I’ve been growing zinnias for the last 15 years or more.
“We don’t have blight where we are”. You are so lucky, here in the UK tomato blight is a nightmare. Trying to keep ahead of it this year. I’ve learnt a huge amount from your channel. Thank you. Fantastic channel.
It doesn't sound like a good combo, but I'm going to try the peanut butter and cucumber sandwich. Only because a friend talked me into trying peanut butter on a hamburger. I was pleasantly surprised that it was delicious. Thanks for bringing us along!
I like cucumber sandwiches, peanutbutter sandwiches and peanutbutter and lettuce sandwiches, and lettuce and mayonnaise sandwiches. So why not peanutbutter and cucumber, I tried it and I like it. I only eat smooth peanutbutter. Thanks for the suggestion. Your garden turned out spectacular this year, considering all the rain. 👋 from 🇨🇦
Love to watch your videos. I have been watching for about a year and I am always waiting for the next video to come out. I live in DC and don’t have an opportunity to grow anything but some basil. Living vicariously! Thanks.
As a child, my favorite sandwich was peanut butter, mom’s homemade pickled cucumbers & onions with a bunch of potato chips smashed and layered on the sandwich. Regular pickles work too. The vinegar helps cut the peanut butter off the roof of your mouth😊 That added crunch of the chips along with a little salt👌
Really wonderful cauliflowers. I love that your daughter/grand-daughter (?) was heard saying 'They are SO white' with such awe. Lovely. I'm sure that this was acknowledged off screen. A beautiful garden.
I live in mid-south USA. Your gardening challenges are so much different than what we see in this area. Your gardening solutions are very interesting. Did the push mower work for your garden paths?
Hi Chelsea. (Love your videos hope you don’t mind me always saying so! 💃) We don’t grow giant sunflowers in our garden anymore. We dooo have self seeded ones dotted about each year and it’s fun to see if they’ve cross pollinated. But if they’re in the way of much depended on produce or plants/trees we’d like to protect, we either cut them or transplant to a safer area. Often close together to help stunt height growth should they decide they’re one of the mamouth ones we sowed years ago for the children. The large ones used to droop with weight and we didn’t mind until one year we had a two day summer wind storm. Those heads acted like marauding Vikings swinging their heads as if wielding swords. Destroyed our fruit tree harvests and knocked out vegetables and row covers within a 10 foot radius! A 6ft 7” alpha male soldier didn’t appreciate me saying a few years ago that he reminded me of a sunflower 🌻. Don’t know why he acted all insulted. 🤷♀️😂
So exciting to watch your harvests and learn how you will preserve them. We love yellow crookneck just sliced as you were the cukes at the end and then browned in large pan, little water added and cooked till tender with BUTTER on top. We also have the family favorite of a casserole made with them, a creamed sauce and sliced water chestnuts with some sweet onions, also. I did try canning them but never found a recipe I liked better than just eating them fried w/butter or that casserole. Good luck!
It is really hard to believe you’re coming up to the “end” of your growing season. I know you have a lot left to grow and harvest, but pruning the tomatoes kind of makes me sad. But what a lovely video! Thank you for sharing it with us. ❤️
I am a crunchy peanut butter fan. I just tried your cucumber and peanut butter sandwich and I have found my new favorite. I usually have peanut butter, cinnamon, banana and lettuce sandwich. I love watching your videos!
