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O/T. Can't Keep Up With Garden Spinach and Raspberries

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Submitted by thinkthrice on Thu, 09/29/2016 - 10:43am

So earlier this year I had some spinach that overwintered in my back garden. I harvested some but then let it bolt. At which time I took the seeds off of it and Scattered it in the back Garden. Since my beet crop didn't do very well I also planted a bit of kale. Well now I'm drowning in spinach.

I plan on freezing a lot of it but does anyone have any recipe ideas?

Also my raspberries blew up because I pruned them very well last year and put bone meal down. I can't seem to keep up with the raspberries! I've been freezing them and putting them through the food mill making jelly making frozen raspberry juice, etc

Any other ideas out there?

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Submitted by ksmom14 on Thu, 09/29/2016 - 10:49am

I love sauteed spinach, just with some garlic and onion, it's great.

Also, I've made a stuffed chicken before with basically the above ^ (sauteed spinach with garlic and onion) mixed with some cream cheese and seasoning. Stuff in chicken, you can either cook as is, or also bread the chicken and then pan sear and bake Smile good stuff

Spinach in an omelette, added to smoothies, or spinach pizza are all great too!

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Submitted by not2sureimsanea... on Thu, 09/29/2016 - 10:53am

Creamed spinach. I usually have to use two bags in order to make one small bowl-- fastest way to use it up imho. Easy to freeze too.

Spinach and chickpea hummus.

Raspberry peach cobbler/pie. So yummy and easy too--great to give out as well if you do it in little ramakins. Just sugar, raspberry, peaches, cornstarch. For the crumble it's flour, butter, salt, sugar, cinnamon. Scoop of vanilla ice cream.

How long did it take for your raspberries to go nuts like that? Do you fertilize? I planted 6 this year and only got a few handfuls to munch while working in the garden.

Edited to add: I just realized you're in NY too, how the heck did you manage to overwinter spinach?!?

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Submitted by ntm on Thu, 09/29/2016 - 11:20am

Freeze the spinach and throw it in soups. Freeze the raspberries and bring them out to make glazed raspberries to top pancakes, cakes, etc. Or to just stir into pancake batter or top french toast.

Here we've been inundated with beans and zucchini. And we had a very good beet crop. Amazing how well the garden can do when you keep the deer out.

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Submitted by not2sureimsanea... on Thu, 09/29/2016 - 11:23am

This year, deer decimated my garden. I didn't even know we HAD deer here. What did you use to deter them?

I may have someone come install a fence next year....

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Submitted by notsobad on Thu, 09/29/2016 - 12:04pm

Check out this video. He uses 30lb test fishing line. The deer can't see it but they will brush up against it and it spooks them.
People here have said that it works. If the deer can see the fence line, they'll jump it but with this they don't see it and don't understand why they can't get into the garden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKWsyn9TgHE

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Submitted by not2sureimsanea... on Thu, 09/29/2016 - 12:12pm

Uh. I'm about to cry tears of happiness. I've been battling them all summer, while being massively pregnant. For a while I thought it might have been a deranged neighbor until I realized the dietary habits were closer to an animal's.

I was looking up all sorts of deer deterrent but never came across this.

Short of buying a dog (which would be a crazy reason to even get a dog), I was going to give up.

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Submitted by notsobad on Thu, 09/29/2016 - 12:35pm

Happy to help!

Even if it doesn't work for you like it did for him, you aren't out a ton of money!

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Submitted by notsobad on Thu, 09/29/2016 - 11:57am

Do you have a food bank in your area?
They love fresh garden products.

I grew garlic for the first time this year. I didn't know what I was doing and so I split up 3 heads of garlic and planted all the cloves. I have garlic for days now! I'm happy about it because it dried nicely and we love garlic but everyone I know also got a head of my garlic.

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Submitted by Acratopotes on Fri, 09/30/2016 - 1:26am

hehehe classic.... I use spinach as normal garden plants combined in my garden, as well as herbs... if you cut the suckers they take over.... I have the giant spinach, looks awesome...

I do cream cheese and black pepper corn, stuffed chicken breast with spinach and feta cheese, spinach with bacon rolled in minute steaks, use it as substitute for lettuce in salads, I hate lettuce. I blanched it and froze it for later use,
I also dried it out once to use the dried leaves in soups.... what eve I can not use goes to the maid and gardener..

rassberry yumm yumm yumm.... make a pie..... Nigela once had this easy thing on a show and I use it frequently with berries for pies, You take the berries with a bit of water, lemon juice and sugar in a buttered oven dish, then you do a crumble dough with self raising flour and sugar and butter , scatter it over the berries and stick in the oven till dough is brownish, by this time the bottom section of berries is a thickish consistency... takes about 30 min for prep and bake