Squash Harvest and Rainy Day Garden

[@maryjemisonMaryjay1936]

Tomatoes 🍅 look beautiful flowers 🌸 are pretty too squash blossoms so healthy looking yummy 😋

[@gerriellsworth4100]

Hi, Rose! Thanks for the tour......this is my favorite time of the year when we reap the rewards! My secret garden club had a very successful sale last week with a beautiful day for talking gardening with lots of people. Three friends sell all perennials from our yards & this year I grew lots of herbs! The proceeds allow us to choose a garden destination & enjoy a 3-day get-away in October. Last year we travelled to Longwood Gardens in Philadelphia, PA. Take care, Rose , stay healthy & may your beautiful garden prosper! ❤

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Thank you so much! Right now it's a treat to even get out of the house, but to be able to get out and talk gardening is very special, indeed!

[@theresajukiewicz3092]

Oh Rose! You have done well!

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Without a doubt!

[@salliebeard1899]

Thank you for sharing ❤️💗❤️ Great harvest,enjoy every bite... SENDING A BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT OF LOVE TO SURROUND THE UNIVERSE 🤗💞💖🤗 AND EVERYONE 🤗❣️❣️🤗💞

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Thanks so much

[@lindaestell6613]

I love your roses.

[@MontysnMotion]

We are enjoying watching💓

[@jessiec1044]

Your garden is looking lovely. I can imagine fairies happily living there. Wonderful squash. Thank you for sharing.😁☔

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

So nice of you

[@OldReddingFarm]

OH MY GOD THAT TOMOATO THAT IS FUUUUSED IS SO HUGE AND AMAZING!! sorry for yelling i am just really excited about it it looks awesome!

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

I know what you mean. I've never grown one anything like that before.

[@luckychicav7981]

Hello Ms Rose, Your garden is doing Amazing, it must be the rain. Thank you for sharing it with us, much appreciated. 😉💗

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

You are so welcome

[@LuJustLu]

Your garden is beautiful.

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Thank you so much 😊

[@WFBDstudio]

Everything looks so beautiful and healthy🤩

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Thank you! 🤗

[@judyfinnegan374]

Everything looks picture perfect! I seen a stalk of borage! Thank you!!!

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Thank you!

[@angelapalmer3542]

Such a beautiful garden

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Thanks for visiting

[@glenokla4079]

Beautiful gardens and flowers! That's a weird tomato! Funny you had a hummingbird setting on your tomato cage and the other day I had a beautiful robin.

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

So cool!

[@deborahwagner9033]

looks beautiful

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

It is!

[@GrampyCampy]

Oops great video!

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Thanks!

[@nadineash1297]

👍

[@buckthornfarms]

We are getting desperate for rain up here. Hopefully I’ll get a birthday rain shower!

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

I hope you get it! We've gotten about 2 inches in the past week. Wish I could send some your way!

[@g.cosper]

I didn't know those cucamelon could be picked so little

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

If you wait too long they are filled with seeds.

[@lilolmecj]

Bumble bee needs a drop of honey. Something prevented him from getting strait to the flower he was to work and home. They don’t carry extra fuel. I am excited to have tomato blooms! It is much more cool here. My main job is to find a way to keep the chickens out of MY garden!! Charting/graphing is the best, then a calendar for what you did when. Every marker I have used has failed. 💕

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Thanks for the tip! Seeing those first tomato blooms is so exciting. I tried the new Sharpee Extreme markers this year that are advertised to be more UV resistant. Nope. They faded too.

[@lilolmecj]

Gramma Rose's Homestead I just re-read and edited my comment so it makes more sense. Late night typos happen! Most years I don’t try very hard to mark my plants because I grow mostly the same varieties. But sometimes you want or need to know. If I find a method that doesn’t take more time than actually gardening, I will share. 8 )

[@joistevens4454]

Can you explain what chickens do to tomatoes, I never heard of them doing that.

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

They eat them!

[@lilolmecj]

Joi Stevens the cute bi!ches will scratch them to death, eat them, usually when they are almost ripe, and jus gene rally cause chaos. I love them but they’re very rough on gardens. I continue o seek ways to allow them to be free nd me to be able to have a garden!

[@cadwyn8002]

How do you cook your lemon squash?

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Just like any yellow squash.

[@thegrowinggardener]

Lovely! What are lemon squash like? Never heard of them. I read that tomatillos often fall off the plant and to just gather them and store them until ripe. Jess says ground cherries fall off when ripe, so maybe there similar?

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

Sorry, this ended up in my "likely spam" folder and I just now saw it. Lemon squash taste just like yellow squash either crookneck or straightneck, so just substitute it in summer squash recipes. If you leave them on the plant a little longer, the skin will turn a deeper yellow and you'll begin to see stripes. At that point, you can cut the top off, scoop out the seeds, and bake it stuffed. The recipe I use was for stuffed zucchini that I copied from Gourmet Magazine back in the 70's, but I imagine any stuffed summer squash recipe would be delicious.

[@GrampyCampy]

I am trying to find buttercup squash not the butternut! I had one last year but it didn’t fruit it was to cold froze it!

[@GrammaRosesHomestead]

I just checked, and my Buttercup squash is from Ferry Morse. I think I bought it at my Co-Op.

[@GrampyCampy]

Gramma Rose's Homestead ok I will try to find some! Thanks it is really good squash! As you probably know! 🤗❤️💕✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️💕❤️🤗😂