Sustainability Mondays: the summer squash edition!

Above, clockwise, from front centre: a giant white patty pan squash which hadn't been there a few days before, smaller patty pan squash with flower, spaghetti squash, "Zucchini" zucchini, "Striata" zucchini, half a "Trombocino" zucchini, a small golden zucchini, the back end of a trombocino (flower visible in the background), and (bottom) a "Black beauty" zucchini. All harvested on one day!

1. Plant Something -

• Planted out some very advanced tomato seedlings from pots and potted on some chillies.
  

2. Harvest something -

• spinach
• lettuce and salad greens
• herbs
• courgettes and other summer squash
• 3 spaghetti squash
  
• chillies
• French beans
  
• cherry tomatoes
• Moneymaker tomatoes

A selection of tomatoes and chillies with the odd pea pod and broad bean pod thrown in for good measure

3. Preserve something -

• Nothing this week
  

4. Waste Not (reducing wastage in all areas)

• The usual things

5. Want Not (preparing for shortage situations)

• Hardened some spaghetti squash for storage by putting them in the sun for a few days to cure. Although I'm not sure they're going to last long enough to need that.
• Bought a kilo of hard winter wheat berries to try out with the flour grinder, to use for baking soon. Probably this coming weekend.
  

6. Build Community Food Systems –

• The usual

7. Eat the Food –

• Baked a spaghetti squash, cut into two halves, seeds hollowed out and filled with a red kidney bean chilli. Delicious. Will do again very soon.
  
• lots of green bean and tofu dishes
• Made more of the intensely courgetty pasta sauce. I'd intended to freeze some, but it made it to our bellies before it made it to the freezer.
  
• Lots of salad with greens, baby carrots, radish and beetroot
• It may not count, but I had some of yarninmypocket's fabulous home-brewed beer. Hey, I enjoyed it, surely I can count it as "eating the food"!
  

The squash row. It was well prepared with horse manure before planting.

8. What I bought:
A pound of red kidney beans and a kilo of wheat beans.