Going back and re-reading this thread, I realized there was another plant that I started growing, but hated the fruit. Muscadines!
My wife is from Georgia, and I’m from TN, but I’d never even heard of them until I started going to Georgia. I tried eating them on several different occasions, and hated the taste every time. They tasted like motor oil smells. I would always end up spitting them out.
When I started growing fruit a few years ago, I decided to grow a few vines just because my wife liked them. Turns out that the ones I grew at home were way better than anything I’d ever eaten in Georgia. The bronze variety I grow is now one of my all time favorite fruits!
Cape Grooseberries/Golden Berries. I was so excited to grow them from seed. I did they grew and to me tasted rather insipid. Almost everyone who tasted my Golden Berries on the other hand where, these are great just bursting with flavor like pineapple and plum. Those little guys also reseeded themselves and came back every year for 10 years till I finally pulled up the area and planted elderberries. Now I did eventually taste good flavored golden berries from whole foods, fresh and dried, my wife claimed my where better but I don’t believe her.
Anyway, now I have 3 or 4 packs of different golden berry verities from Trade Winds fruits and I am about to start the process all over again at my new house.
My sentiments exactly (as I posted above) but it is so good to find so many gardeners who admit it.
I will grow cukes (for pickles and for the grandkids), but this year NO SQUASH!!!
We had a bumper crop of zucchini a couple years ago, lots of big examples of them. They grew so fast, I didn’t know what to do with them. I could actually eat them raw, but unlike cukes, you just can’t eat too many of them that way. And, I don’t like to fry them, so a lot of them went to waste. My wife did make some tasty zucchini bread from them, however.
I tried to give them to the horse that we had in the pasture, but she didn’t want them either. She sure liked the corn stalks, (and ears of course), tho.
So, prob not going to grow any zukes this year. But, will grow the cukes for sure, we love them straight off the vine, and pickled.
No, chickens yet, Mr Phil. The Mrs wants some, but we’re too busy with the fruit plants coming in, and starting our veggies to mess with them right now. We have an old coop, but it needs work, and is low on our priority list.
Our neighbor about a mile up the road keeps us well stocked with free eggs, so we’re good in that area.
Yes, that is peculiar. But, lots o’ stuff is better deep fried, yes?
I’m reminded of the State Fairs of Texas, where they deep fried everything. Like Snickers bars, ice cream, and everyone’s favorite- deep fried butter. Yes, you read that right.
The zucchini bread is pretty good though, you can almost taste the veggie init.
Then it sounds like it needs to be deep fat fried, LOL. I’d have to chase it with a proper cup of tea.
My grandparents were Russian immigrants escaping during the socialist revolution. Where they settled (Philly) there was no land to garden. My mom had nothing to pass down. After I moved here there was actually land to do something with and I wanted to ‘grow stuff’. Friends at church advised growing squash because it was easy. I’d never had it before. I sowed a seed every 4" in about a 15’ row. Had trouble getting my church friends to take any of my abundance. I canned a lot and then threw it away. Then it was about ‘growing stuff’, now it is more about ‘eating stuff’ and, of course, what the grand kids like, LOL. (They don’t like squash either)
No wonder y’all don’t like squash if you let it grow so big. It’s supposed to be eaten much smaller, just a few inches long. You can even eat them with the flowers still on. If you can’t serve them whole, to pick up with a fork and eat in just a few bites, they’re overgrown.
