Debbie joins Green Acres Garden Podcast to share how to use fall harvest
Debbie Arrington of Sacramento Digs Gardening and Kevin Jordan of the Green Acres Garden Podcast recently chatted about cooking what you grow. Courtesy Green Acres Nursery & Supply
When I joined Kevin Jordan and Austin Blank for the Green Acres Garden Podcast, we talked at length about a common topic for food gardeners: Making use of your harvest. In other words, you grew it; now eat it.
Every backyard farmer knows that lament, heard most often during zucchini season or weeks after an enthusiastic planting spree. To me, it also echoes in my head when it’s time to harvest something I tried growing for the first time, such as some very pretty melons or unusual Asian greens.
What we grow very directly inspires what we cook. Our readers see that every Sunday in the selection of recipes that Kathy Morrison and I create for Sacramento Digs Gardening. Our three seasonal e-cookbooks are packed with dozens of examples of cooking what’s in season – and in abundance.
Before you plant, it helps to have some suggestions of what to do with the product of your gardening efforts. Our most recent e-cookbook, Taste Fall!, has more than 60 seasonal recipes using what we’re harvesting now – more than 30 different fruits and vegetables.
But our Taste Spring! e-cookbook has just as many ideas for how to use the vegetables you’re likely growing or planting right now.
What to do with your harvest – now and for harvests to come – is the basis of a project Sacramento Digs Gardening is now working on with our friends at Green Acres Nursery & Supply. We plan to provide easy links to our recipes at point of plant or seed purchase. (More on that to come.)
Episode No. 99 in the Green Acres podcast series, “Fall Recipes from the Garden,” focuses on using our bountiful fall harvest. For me, that’s a bumper crop of Fuyu persimmons and apples.
Also an avid food gardener, Kevin teaches gardening and a lot more at Leo A. Palmiter Jr./Sr. High School; he’s nursery and landscape instructor for the school’s Sustainable Environments Learning Academy. He was honored by the Sacramento Office of Education as the 2023 Teacher of the Year.
For this podcast, we had a great (and much longer) conversation about gardening and recipe ideas. Austin worked his editing magic to get it to fit into 28 minutes.
Listen to it here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1610311/14021958-fall-recipes-from-the-garden
Find our TasteFall! E-cookbook here (it’s free!): https://sacdigsgardening.californialocal.com/article/60135-taste-fall-recipes-from-your-garden/
New podcast are posted every Friday. For past podcasts: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1610311.
More on Green Acres and what’s ready to plant now: https://idiggreenacres.com/.
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Garden Checklist for week of Nov. 3
November still offers good weather for fall planting:
* If you haven't already, it's time to clean up the remains of summer. Pull faded annuals and vegetables. Prune dead or broken branches from trees.
* Now is the best time to plant most trees and shrubs. This gives them plenty of time for root development before spring growth. They also benefit from fall and winter rains.
* Set out cool-weather annuals such as pansies and snapdragons.
* Lettuce, cabbage and broccoli also can be planted now.
* Plant garlic and onions.
* Keep planting bulbs to spread out your spring bloom. Some possible suggestions: daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths, tulips, anemones and scillas.
* This is also a good time to seed wildflowers and plant such spring bloomers as sweet pea, sweet alyssum and bachelor buttons.
* Rake and compost leaves, but dispose of any diseased plant material. For example, if peach and nectarine trees showed signs of leaf curl this year, clean up under trees and dispose of those leaves instead of composting.
* Save dry stalks and seedpods from poppies and coneflowers for fall bouquets and holiday decorating.
* For holiday blooms indoors, plant paperwhite narcissus bulbs now. Fill a shallow bowl or dish with 2 inches of rocks or pebbles. Place bulbs in the dish with the root end nestled in the rocks. Add water until it just touches the bottom of the bulbs. Place the dish in a sunny window. Add water as needed.
* Give your azaleas, gardenias and camellias a boost with chelated iron.
* For larger blooms, pinch off some camellia buds.
* Prune non-flowering trees and shrubs while dormant.
* To help prevent leaf curl, apply a copper fungicide spray to peach and nectarine trees after they lose their leaves this month. Leaf curl, which shows up in the spring, is caused by a fungus that winters as spores on the limbs and around the tree in fallen leaves. Sprays are most effective now.
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