Pumpkinist Lora

Farmers’ Markets

Today is my favorite market: the Alleyways Market in Winnipeg. In general I love farmers’ markets and selling my veggies. I love chit chatting with people and offering them fresh local delicious vegges. The only downside is all the traveling and time required to get ready. That’s why I’m trying to grow only a few…

Deep Fried Garden Vegetables

You can basically deep fry any vegetables. Put a little bit of batter on them and throw them in a fryer. Frying stuff is so much safer than in by gone years as you can get fryers that you can plug in and you don’t have to heat up oil on the stove, you still…

Flower Bouquets

I love flowers, they are so bright, cheerful, and colorful. I enjoy making flower bouquets and selling them at my markets. Some of the main flowers I grow are: Gladiolus Sunflowers Zinnias Statice This year I’m going to try and incorporate flowers into my garlic braids and strawflowers and wheat is a classic fall look….

Zucchini and Summer Squash

Zucchini plants like to give and give and give………. Thankfully shredding zucchini is easy (if you have a machine to help you) and freezing it in bags is quite easy. In winter you can make: bread, cakes, muffins, and more with the zucchini. Another way to use up zucchini is to make zoodles. Spiralizers for…

Time for a Corny Joke

Sweet Corn and tomatoes are two of my favorite veggies. I also love Indian corn. My dad loves telling children that he hand paints each kernel. In Manitoba sweet corn is ready in August and Indian corn is ready in September. There are a few different types of corn: sweet dent flint popcorn flour pod…

I don’t Cook!!

Really, I don’t cook and no I’m not starving and yes I do know how to cook. So than the question is why don’t I cook? Cooking for one is not fun and having 5 cats makes cooking difficult. So what do you eat? In summer time I love Greek salad, nuked potatoes, eating raw…

Radishes and Rutabaga

I grow very few radishes and no rutabaga. The reason I grow radishes is to mark my carrot rows. Carrots grow incredibly slow and radishes grow incredibly fast so it shows me where my row is. I found radishes to be spicy, I’m not a fan of overly spicy or heat. All Recipes apparently has…

Pumpkin vs Winter Squash

I sometimes get asked what’s the difference between a pumpkin and a winter squash? I really don’t have a answer to that question. They both belong to the Cucurbita family and than they branch off into other families. All pumpkins are winter squash: mature fruit of certain species in the genus Cucurbita. Subspecies include pepo, moschata, argyrosperma, and…

Throw it all in!

I’m a third generation market gardener and the gardening gene/DNA can probably be traced to the beginning of my ancestors. I’m part of 3 gardening Facebook groups and sometimes the simplest questions have me stumped. When I garden I’m on auto pilot, my motto is “I know, therefore I do”. I don’t really think about…