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Comment on Neck Pumpkin: A Home Kitchen Garden Marvel by admin

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:00:11 +0000

Cindy: Thanks for visiting! Amazingly, when I gave a neck pumpkin to my neighbor yesterday, she told me she’d never seen one! My neighbor grew up in central Pennsylvania and told me she loves squash. My guess: she never shops at farmers’ markets and farm stands. I’ve never seen a neck pumpkin in a grocery store.

Comment on Home Kitchen Garden Bloom Day 08/2010 by admin

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:57:46 +0000

Kerry: Shucks, thanks!

Comment on Neck Pumpkin: A Home Kitchen Garden Marvel by Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:33:22 +0000

Wow! I didn’t realize I was so lucky to live in PA! I assumed everybody knew about these pumpkins! The trick to buying these – look for one with a substantial neck and small bulbous end. All of the flesh is located in the neck, while the round end contains the seeds.

Comment on Home Kitchen Garden Bloom Day 08/2010 by Kerry

Kerry — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:03:34 +0000

Beautiful pictures! I particularly love the dill and my son loves the bug.

Comment on Your Home Kitchen Garden Design – 2 by Daisy

Daisy — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:19:42 +0000

Wow! That’s really impressive. This kind of thing makes me consider moving to the country. I doubt it’ll ever happen; we’re more likely to keep expanding the backyard garden. I’m sure my husband won’t miss mowing!

Comment on Neck Pumpkin: A Home Kitchen Garden Marvel by bill bush

bill bush — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:38:53 +0000

My Grandma Lucy grew an equivalent plant called “cushaw” in western NC. The squash is striped in two-tone green, light and dark, like a watermelon, but is shaped more like a large straight-neck squash. A typical one is two feet long and ten inches in diameter, quite large. These will keep for some time into the winter. The pale green flesh is the sweetest of any squash I have ever tasted. Another old-time plant she grew was the “banana squash”, a reddish long vegetable similar to the cushaw, but I if I remember correctly it was a better winter keeper. It had yellow flesh and was also sweeter than butternut. I have seen seeds in catalogs, so they are evidently still available. Grandma kept the squash in a cave dug into the side of a hill in the pasture. The opening was kept covered with straw, and on the occasional warmer days of winter, she would pull back the straw and bring out what she planned to use during the next couple of weeks. The old house had a dug-out cold cellar underneath it, but that was full of her home-canned goods, so the squash and pumpkins went in the cave. No canning/freezing needed. I think I remember the onions being in the cold cellar.

Comment on Honey Bees are in My Home Kitchen Garden by Most Tweeted Articles by Gardening Experts

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Comment on Honey Bees are in My Home Kitchen Garden by admin

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 04:38:03 +0000

Tammy: Please pick away, if you can find any brains to pick. Working with bees through all the seasons was always so fascinating for me. I can’t think of a more spectacular display in nature (though there are many to equal it) than that of a captured swarm organizing itself as it moves its queen into a new hive. The behaviors of bees is so complex and efficient… it really is as though all the bees together in a colony make up a single organism.

Comment on Honey Bees are in My Home Kitchen Garden by Tammy Curry

Tammy Curry — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:51:41 +0000

I may have to add you to the list of people that I intend to pick their apiary brains. I so want honeybees and have an idea of where I want to place them.

Comment on Honey Bees are in My Home Kitchen Garden by admin

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 00:25:52 +0000

Robert_H: Sorry to hear your town has a chokehold on stuff that is fundamentally good for the world… I’ll bet they think it’s really dandy for people to have lawns which give rise to unnecessary noise and pollution, and suck millions of hours a week out of America’s productivity. (Sorry about the rant.)

I’ve an in-town friend who bought chickens and contacted the township authority to ask if there would be a problem. The person he spoke with asked, “Will the chickens be livestock or pets?” My friend started explaining how his kids would learn stuff when the township authority interrupted and asked again, “Will the chickens be livestock or pets?” The message was clear: the chickens were pets, and that made them OK for the township.

As for honeybees? Goodness! New York City just legalized honeybee ownership! It’s time for all towns and cities to get on board! Every additional beehive is another chance to maintain critical mass of our pollinator population.

In any case, thanks so much for visiting!

-Daniel