I like the fact that you don’t give up. This is the secret of a good farmer. Best of luck. Green houses in your area will yield more because of the weather. Keep gardening!!
Turnips… my husband’s Norwegian folks boil their turnips, have with sausage and a potato dish on New Years Day… A tradition I’ve come to truly enjoy and look forward to.
This was a great garden tour! Even with the challenges, you really got a lot of good from from your garden. And the new storage building and root cellar will be a huge benefit for your family. Btw, Kabocha squash is REALLY GOOD! I used one for 'pumpkin' pies one year and they were delicious! I hear turnips could be used as a potato substitute - roasted, cut for fries, etc. I think roasting and seasoning them like potatoes is the way to go. 👍🏾👍🏾
You can peel and cut the turnip in chunks, drizzle with butter or olive oil, salt and pepper and roast in the oven. You can up the flavor with garlic and onion powder. I like to eat them raw with just a little salt, but I'm probably one of few people who prefer them raw. In the UK they mash them like potatoes, add butter, a little milk and salt. When you hear them say "bangers and mash" the mash is turnips. I lived in the UK for a bit and they have the best tasting foods because they don't allow the garbage added that the U.S. allows. You can buy seeds to grow seedless watermelon but you have to grow a seeded variety for pollination , the seeds for the seedless are more expensive and harder to get to germinate.
If the corn doesn't make it to harvest before a killing frost, turn it into mulch and compost it over winter for next yrs garden. If you have animals you can also turn it into feed for them.
This was super helpful on the varieties and it's been awesome to watch this summer how you guys are doing! Our garden closer to Frenchtown did about the same all over in regards to tomatoes, I tried a lot of different varieties this year as well so thank you for posting!
I’m glad you found it interesting. It was a tougher year. Hoping for better in the future. I love trying new varieties and always hope to find a winner!
I grow a purple pole beam that grow very well and highly productive. Each year I save seeds and it’s been many years so not positive on what the initial variety was. Did I quick google search and Blue Coco pole bean seems to the most similar but no way to know of that is the same. I’d be more than happy to share as I always save plenty of seeds.
That would be wonderful to try them! If you email us at montanamidvalleyfarm@gmail.com we can communicate and would be excited to share something with you.
I like the fact that you don’t give up. This is the secret of a good farmer. Best of luck. Green houses in your area will yield more because of the weather. Keep gardening!!
Thank you! The challenge can be fun yet frustrating, but when things are successful it’s so rewarding!
Turnips… my husband’s Norwegian folks boil their turnips, have with sausage and a potato dish on New Years Day… A tradition I’ve come to truly enjoy and look forward to.
Thanks for sharing!
Beet seed, you just wait till the fruit, and the area of the stalk they are attached too, is dry and brown.
Beet "seed" is actually a fruit.
Thanks!
This was a great garden tour! Even with the challenges, you really got a lot of good from from your garden. And the new storage building and root cellar will be a huge benefit for your family. Btw, Kabocha squash is REALLY GOOD! I used one for 'pumpkin' pies one year and they were delicious!
I hear turnips could be used as a potato substitute - roasted, cut for fries, etc. I think roasting and seasoning them like potatoes is the way to go. 👍🏾👍🏾
You can peel and cut the turnip in chunks, drizzle with butter or olive oil, salt and pepper and roast in the oven. You can up the flavor with garlic and onion powder. I like to eat them raw with just a little salt, but I'm probably one of few people who prefer them raw. In the UK they mash them like potatoes, add butter, a little milk and salt. When you hear them say "bangers and mash" the mash is turnips. I lived in the UK for a bit and they have the best tasting foods because they don't allow the garbage added that the U.S. allows.
You can buy seeds to grow seedless watermelon but you have to grow a seeded variety for pollination , the seeds for the seedless are more expensive and harder to get to germinate.
Thank you for all of the advice! Good info!
If the corn doesn't make it to harvest before a killing frost, turn it into mulch and compost it over winter for next yrs garden. If you have animals you can also turn it into feed for them.
This was super helpful on the varieties and it's been awesome to watch this summer how you guys are doing! Our garden closer to Frenchtown did about the same all over in regards to tomatoes, I tried a lot of different varieties this year as well so thank you for posting!
I’m glad you found it interesting. It was a tougher year. Hoping for better in the future. I love trying new varieties and always hope to find a winner!
Amazing squash! Do you have problems with squash bugs like we do in Missouri?
We are lucky to not, so far that is.🤞
Our winters get pretty cold here. Perhaps that is part of the reason.
I grow a purple pole beam that grow very well and highly productive. Each year I save seeds and it’s been many years so not positive on what the initial variety was. Did I quick google search and Blue Coco pole bean seems to the most similar but no way to know of that is the same. I’d be more than happy to share as I always save plenty of seeds.
That would be wonderful to try them! If you email us at montanamidvalleyfarm@gmail.com we can communicate and would be excited to share something with you.
What part of Montana we are in gf
Checked out your channel and subscribed. We are in Helena, use to live in GF at one point before getting into gardening.