Wow, it's Thursday! Does anyone else feel a little behind in the garden right now? We've got asparagus plants that are dying to go out, celery that looks like it's ready too. We've got tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, pumpkin, squash and melons that are outgrowing their soil blocks. There's tons of lettuce outside that needs to be thinned. The soil in most of the garden still needs to be turned. The fence is not up. The watering system is in shambles, and the time is now! Thank goodness it rained this evening, 'cause there's been a lot of watering going on around here too.
In addition to the rain, Belle gave a little relief too. She made pumpkin black bean soup. Last fall she cooked and canned pumpkin that came from a volunteer plant that grew near the compost. She made pumpkin black bean soup today.
The recipe can be found at allrecipes.com Belle added sage to spice it up a little more.
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Spring Garden Acre is a blog about our family's gardening adventures. We call our place Spring Garden Acre, because we live on Spring Road with about an acre. We're located in zone 6b of south central PA. We grow peaches, berries, vegetables and keep a few chickens for eggs and meat.
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Pumpkin black bean . . . that sounds interesting but delicious at the same time!
ReplyDeleteYea, it's very tasty. The pumpkin gives the soup a good color and texture.
DeleteIt's definitely a busy time of the year for us gardeners!! I started a lot of my seeds a little later then usual and the seedling shuffle has been much easier to deal with.
ReplyDeleteThe soup sounds yummy! It's a good thing Belle keeps you well fed with all that work you have to do!!
Lucky break with the seeds, especially with all the groundbreaking work you're doing at the new plot.
DeleteIt is very busy time in the garden, all my letuces need to be thinned out too and I just planted mellons and squashes in the seedling trays so they should be ready for transplant in 3 weeks.
ReplyDeleteI finally got the asparagus planted and most of the lettuces thinned today. Whew! It's on the next thing now.
DeleteThat looks delicious. Black beans and squash go so well together.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if butternut squash would be a good substitute for pumpkin. We've still got 4 from last year.
DeleteNow that sounds like a really interesting combination, and one I've never tried. Time to hunt out some black beans as its pumpkin season here.
ReplyDeleteI ate the last serving last night! It goes great with wheat bread, or homemade buttery croutons.
DeleteThanks for sharing that recipe, it sounds yummy! I have some pumpkin and squash that need to be used up, so I might try my hand at it.
ReplyDeleteYou certainly won't regret it!
DeleteMmm, I love black bean soup and I've been looking for a good recipe for pumpkin soup so this sounds like a winner!
ReplyDeleteThat soup looks delicious!
ReplyDeleteyummy soup!
ReplyDeleteHappy gardening!
Just printed off that recipe. Sounds like a winner to me. I hope I have pumpkin so I can make it today.
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