Farm 24 XL

[Shawn]

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[lynnee]

maskedsonnet, the cucumber must have known that its days were numbered! It's really hard to take out any plant that is still producing. Your harvested cucumbers are lovely.

[maskedsonnet]

Picked a couple cucumbers and several jalapenos today! And the one sweet bonnet that was ready!

The cucumber vine continues to be a super productive eye-sore - I wish it was a little prettier but I certainly can't argue with the results!

For the lemon jalapenos, what I took for small, still-growing peppers before went ahead and turned colors! So have lots of tiny, delicious peppers from that, as well as some red peppers from the pot-a-peno plants.

The sweet bonnet ended up being a bit of a disappointment, because I misread the description!! Thought it was still going to be spicy, not just sweet. It was still very tasty, just not quite what I was expecting - a barely-there heat, very sweet like a snacking pepper would be. The flavor threw me off so much that I went back to re-read the description and sure enough, not supposed to be hot lol.

[mike]

I like the lack of seeds on the last one. Did you remove some before the pic? 

[maskedsonnet]

Dec 11, 2021 19:52:18 GMT -5 mike said:

I like the lack of seeds on the last one. Did you remove some before the pic? 

Nope! It had very few seeds when I cut it the rest of the way open, just a tiny cluster of them at the top, under the stem.

[lynnee]

The cucumber is amazing! I really want to try a cucumber when my Farm 12 XL is free again. (For now, it is producing eggplants.) What kind of cucumber is it?

Those are perfect jalapenos. I love the colorful, cornucopia-like photo.

[maskedsonnet]

Dec 12, 2021 23:11:10 GMT -5 lynnee said:

The cucumber is amazing! I really want to try a cucumber when my Farm 12 XL is free again. (For now, it is producing eggplants.) What kind of cucumber is it?

Those are perfect jalapenos. I love the colorful, cornucopia-like photo.

The cucumbers are mini munch from territorial seeds

[lynnee]

Thanks--I couldn't find it in the thread. I know you told us, because I ordered the seeds already!

[maskedsonnet]

Got lots of harvesting and cleaning up to do here!

[campingcorgis]

Based on the garden updates I've just seen, might I suggest a salad recipe?  It is something I modified from an old BH&G book...

Garden Pasta Salad

½ cup salami, pepperoni, OR mortadella, cut into small pieces
1 medium tomato, peeled & chopped
¼ cup chopped cucumber
¼ cup chopped green pepper
1 slice medium onion, finely chopped
1 tablespoon snipped parsley
Fresh Herb dressing (recipe follows)
8 ounces wide noodles
¼ cup crumbled feta cheese (1 ounce)

In mixing bowl, combine meat, tomato, cucumber, green pepper, onion and parsley. Toss with Fresh Herb Dressing. Cover & chill thoroughly.

Cook pasta (per package instructions), drain & rinse with cold water & drain again. Continue rinsing & draining till pasta is well chilled.

Turn cooked pasta into a salad bowl. Spoon meat-dressing mixture atop pasta. Sprinkle with crumbled feta cheese. Toss. Makes 2 servings.

Fresh Herb Dressing:
In a screw-top jar, combine ¼ cup salad oil; 3 tablespoons dry white wine; 2 tablespoons lemon juice; 1 tablespoon sugar; 2 teaspoons fresh snipped basil or ½ teaspoon dried basil, crushed; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1/8 teaspoon pepper; and several dashes bottled hot pepper sauce. Cover & shake well.

[maskedsonnet]

Sounds delicious!

[maskedsonnet]

The final harvest!! The bottom of that metal colander is cucumbers, there were a bunch ready for me!!

[mike]

Wonderful. Question, how hot were your jalapenos? My Pot-A-Penos have been on the milder side for a jalapeno, so far.

[campingcorgis]

Looks scrumptious!  

[maskedsonnet]

Jan 1, 2022 21:37:45 GMT -5 mike said:

Wonderful. Question, how hot were your jalapenos? My Pot-A-Penos have been on the milder side for a jalapeno, so far.

They’re mild, like I can still feel the spice a bit but not near the level I usually expect from home-grown jalapeños. But they are way better than store-bought, which usually taste like grass with no heat to me!

[lynnee]

With luck, my cucumber will produce like yours, maskedsonnet.

[maskedsonnet]

Did all sorts of trimming. Cleaned up the cucumber vine a little bit, and cut down all but one pot-a-peno down to stumps. One pot-a-peno was down to almost nothing by the time I trimmed off all the branches that had shed a bunch of leaves, so cut it out. Didn't really like the sweet bonnets, and wasn't super impressed with what the lemon jalapeno was doing so got rid of those. Will start some new peppers when the last plant finishes ripening up the rest of its peppers.

Once again, the cucumber vine had too many babies for me to cut it apart, so it has been spared again!!

[campingcorgis]

Wow!  Impressive!  

[maskedsonnet]

The last of the jalapenos are coming along really well

And the cukes!!

Got several ripe ones that I took off, as well as a bunch of babies forming up!!

[campingcorgis]

Yum!