tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237633934633144064.post3731216671305279288..comments2024-03-26T10:01:18.135-04:00Comments on Living the Frugal Life: Still Harvesting, Processing Food, and GleaningKatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18017959421018964001noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237633934633144064.post-91812188412853089572008-10-23T07:44:00.000-04:002008-10-23T07:44:00.000-04:00Hi Chris and Paige,I posted the recipe I used for ...Hi Chris and Paige,<BR/><BR/>I posted the recipe I used for the pear upside down cake yesterday. It took me a while due to a week's hiatus of staycation. I don't know if you still have gleaned pears to use up or not, but that recipe and one other can be found here:<BR/><BR/>http://livingthefrugallife.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-im-doing-with-free-pears-these.html<BR/><BR/>I'd love to hear what you're doing with gleaned pears too.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18017959421018964001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237633934633144064.post-78884890771826581482008-10-07T22:13:00.000-04:002008-10-07T22:13:00.000-04:00Upside down pear cake... can you give up your reci...Upside down pear cake... can you give up your recipe... it looks fabulous and we have been gleaning some great big pears from next door neighbor's tree. I also have to identify with needing to go to the neighbors with a ladder! We have some neighbors a few streets over with two very top heavy with fruit apple trees. I love Gleaning fruit!Paigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14585569877524798244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237633934633144064.post-38954788148036249502008-10-07T07:53:00.000-04:002008-10-07T07:53:00.000-04:00El, it's certainly possible that it was a rodent. ...El, it's certainly possible that it was a rodent. But on one or two potatoes I found a small slug. I don't know if they coincidentally showed up there, or if they're the culprit. The damaged spuds were about 3"-5" down. I salvaged the ones that could be salvaged. Some of them were beyond saving.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the tip on seed potatoes. I'll try keeping them in our basement, which is far from ideal for root cellaring. Too warm down there with our furnace. But we'll see what can be done. And thanks also for encouraging me to just let go with the lacinato kale. You make an excellent point.<BR/><BR/>As for the broadfork, yeah. We've got weak spots for tools. It was an early birthday present this year. We used it for harvesting the spuds too, even though ours is not the type designed for that task. At least that way we use it more than a couple times per year.<BR/><BR/>Kristen, thanks!Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18017959421018964001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237633934633144064.post-13986033307550788812008-10-06T16:41:00.000-04:002008-10-06T16:41:00.000-04:00Oooh, that looks so, so tasty!Oooh, that looks so, so tasty!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237633934633144064.post-59265695270390065312008-10-06T08:41:00.000-04:002008-10-06T08:41:00.000-04:00Wow: a broadfork! (I covet, but really with my r...Wow: a broadfork! (I covet, but really with my raised beds I don't need one. Still.)<BR/><BR/>Your potatoes look to me like they've been eaten by meadow voles. These things are a scourge if you ask me. They reproduce crazily, something like 5 litters a year. Usually they will get the potatoes nearest to the surface; they won't dig down if they have to. And, well, tightwad that *I* am, I still use them.<BR/><BR/>Re: seed potatoes. I store these the same way I store other potatoes. In point of fact, those potatoes that make it to spring (usually sprouty) make it into the ground too: I figure if they last that long, I should take advantage of it. I store them in open plastic tubs in my seat-of-the-pants rootcellar (the back steps). The plastic? Only because the rootcellar gets swamped with water in heavy rain.<BR/><BR/>hope that helps...that, and my lacinato kale lasts pretty long into fall so I don't bother blanching it. It gives me a reason to go into the garden in December!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com