Veggie tray question
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veggie tray to soup pot - ideas?
Comments (3)Here is a really simple Cream Of Broccoli soup recipe that I make occasionally. However it doesn't have cheese in it. Cream of Broccoli Soup 2c water 8oz fresh broccoli (diced) 2 oz carrots (diced) 3 oz butter 2 tsp instant chicken broth or boullion 1 small onion, minced 1 tsp salt ¼ tsp pepper 2-1/4 c milk 4T cornstarch In medium saucepan combine first 8 ingredients & bring to a boil. Cover and simmer until vegetables are tender. Add 2c milk. Mix remaining milk and cornstarch in small bowl, slowly add to hot soup mixture. Heat until creamy, do not boil. Serves 6 Or if you want a hearty soup with meat, here's a really good one that will use up some of your carrots and celery. Turkey Spaetzle Soup Source: Betty Crocker 2T vegetable oil I large onion, finely chopped 1 medium carrot, finely chopped 1 stalk celery, finely chopped 1 clove garlic, finely chopped ¼ c all purpose flour 2tsp dried thyme 1/4 tsp black pepper 2 c diced, cooked turkey 6 c chicken broth 1 bag (12oz) frozen spaetzle Chopped fresh parsley (optional) In 4qt saucepan, heat oil over medium high heat. Add onion, carrot, celery and garlic, cook until crisp\-tender, about 2 minutes Gradually stir in flour, thyme and pepper, cook 1 minute, stirring constantly. Stir in turkey and broth, heart to a boil. Stir in spaetzle. Cook 2\-3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Garnish with parsley, serve. Yield: 6 servings (1\-3/4 c each) Per serving: 240 calories, 10g total fat, 70mg cholesterol, 17g carbohydrate, My notes: I canÂt get frozen spaetzle so I made my own. You could also substitute egg noodles for the spaetzle. This soup is delicious and really quick to prepare! I would just toss the cherry toms in a container and bring along to snack on! Linda...See MoreQuestion about the "gritty mix" (veggies or just trees?)
Comments (7)No, that is not my lettuce. If I had to guess, that particular setup looks like a trench dug in the ground, lined with plastic, and drained to a collection point for re-circulation. It's probably just gravel for cost. It would have a re-circulating nutrient solution for constant access to nutrients. It could easily be used as a 'to waste' (doesn't re-circulate) setup with the addition of calcined clay or diatomaceous earth to maintain moisture. You would still pretty much constantly fertigate at a low concentration though. And I think you would want to collect or divert the runoff for other landscape uses. Yes, you can reuse the gritty mix, but there will be a lot of organic matter from roots in there that you'll want to get rid of. It's just generally a lot easier to make up new media for annuals. The organic bark based medium doesn't break down that much in a year and you can just toss it in the compost at the end of the season. Now if you live where materials are hard to come by or in a 12 story walk up, cleaning media might be easier....See MoreNew Gardener- Help Me Plan My Veggie Layout and general questions
Comments (3)Well the root crops would best benefit from the deep bed. For the rest it doesn't really matter. Your bigger issue is going to be the different nutrient and water needs of the different vegetables. Put the broccoli, cauliflower, and brussels sprouts together but not near the beans or peas (they can go together). Put the lettuce by the cukes and keep all the squash plants together. I guess since you already have the plants you might as well plant them. They will either survive or they won't. You may have to replace them then but you may discover that you don't have room for everything on your list anyway so if something dies off the other plants will benefit from that space.. But you will have learned some valuable lessons in the mean time - Different plants have different needs. Not everything can be or should be planted all at the same time. And what looks like plenty of room now will look like an over-grown jungle in 2 months. :-) I would transplant the tomatoes into larger pots - no, they can't remain as is - and hold them back for a couple of weeks. But the cukes and zucchini and squash won't survive a double transplanting (into a larger pot and then into the garden) so all you can do is plant them and hope for the best. Next year think about direct seeding them at the proper time rather than using transplants. Same goes for beans. And this winter take the time to learn about the various correct planting dates for each vegetable for your location and the soil temps needed by various vegetables for transplanting. Do that before you invest in all the plants, ok? You might also want to learn about pre-warming garden soil methods so you can plant warm summer crops a bit earlier next year. Too late to do that this year as it takes several weeks. Dave...See MoreGot a few questions for this years veggie gardens :)
Comments (6)I probably should of separated it into different posts but once I started typing, all these questions came to mind! :) Thank you for taking the time to answer. I've been trying to add organic matter whenever I'm out in the yard. I just throw grass and weeds on whichever bed I'm looking at :). I don't even mow anymore. I just rip all the grass that's grown too large and throw it on the nearest bed. I have a worm bed that has composty stuff in it but I don't know if I should add quite that much per bed as it may be more potent than compost. I was thinking I'd just leave some worm compost in each of the holes prior to transplanting and mound all my melons and squashes with it. I did buy about 10 yards of organic compost last year and have used it on many of the beds I've made. I do have almost 40 beds though so it didn't go as far as I wanted. I was hoping not to have buy so much this year so maybe I can go with just a couple yards and add that to the beds that didn't get as much last year. It sounds like I'll have to amend the fertilizer recipe a bit to counteract the loss of N while there's still plenty of P to go around. Maybe adding just soybean/alfalfa later in the season and spraying with fish/seaweed emulsion every other week might help. I definitely have getting a soil test on my to-do list but I might need several as my yard varies quite a bit. Some places are just rock, some is clay so hard it seems like rock and some of it is like a fluffier clay with few rocks. I'm a little terrified the test will come back saying I shouldn't even try to garden in this soil! That'd be so discouraging I'd almost rather not know! I know it's silly but that's mainly what's held me back, that and I'm really bad about penny pinching. I could spend 10$ on a soil test or $10 on a half yard of compost and every time I go with the compost :) I have a neighbor who does a lot of hydro/aeroponics and I think he's got some nice at-home tester that I could use to get a rudimentary idea of what's in the soil but not as accurate as sending it off. In the mean time, it sounds like this years garden will be a good experiment that, with any luck, will pay off :)...See Morediinohio
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