* Reminder Saturday Sept 28, 10 to 4 Open House and Rural Romp Farm Crawl *
https://www.wellington.ca/experience-wellington/farm-food-experiences/rural-romp/fall-rural-romp
Hey there,
Another beautiful week full of sunshine and gardening. Tidying up for fall and the open house, the cover crops are growing tall and bushy and sorting out the nicest Garlic to begin cracking for planting in a few weeks.
Would also like to highlight a few of my other favourite fall veggies.
Celeriac, an underrated veggie. The gnarly root with its white center tastes just like celery, great in all the places celery is too. Shredded in a salad, cubed for a stew or roasted veggies, or boiled with or with out potatoes and mashed as a substitute or to add lovely flavour to your mashed potatoes. The tops of the celeriac is also useful. With its stronger and slightly bitter flavour, it dries really well and delivers great celery flavour with a few crumbled leaves for your soups, stocks and stews in the winter.
Another wonderful range of fall veggies are the winter radishes. In many different shapes and sizes they offer crispy, crunchy goodness from mild to hot and are great for more then just eating fresh. We will grate them into salads, but a daikon is lovely quick pickled in the fridge to go with salads, wraps and noodles, mild and soft in soups. The larger red radish braised with other veggies to create colourful stir-fries or pureed into a lovely pink soup. Or simply boiled, and tossed in some butter, salt and pepper like you some broccoli, or with cheese like cauliflower.
Of course, there is also parsnip, impossible to simply pull, they must be dug out and are the reason we go through so many garden forks. So we appologize if there is the odd graze or stab mark from the forks, but they are a chore to harvest. I'm also allergic to the parsnip tops, if I don't wash my arms or legs after pulling them I can develop blisters, though have no problem eating them, just the tops. I haven't been as careful this year as I have been in the past and have gotten a small parsnip burn on my wrist, but, totally worth it for the off white mega roots that we have been pulling, better after a frost, but wanted to make sure you were still able to enjoy some if that frost never came.
