Today on Gardening with Greg. We're talking summer squash
One of the first things that comes in the spring garden is summer squash man do I love them
I planted these about 55-60 days ago and now they coming in good so I'm gonna have squash
Everywhere the two varieties. I planted this year is Goldprize
And Golden Delight these Goldprize squash or yellow straight necks. Man, they have some good flavor to them
They're hybrids, and they're really productive if we're going to do stew squash
Were we cut them up and mix them up with good onions to put them in a cast-iron frying pan
These are the ones we like to use also. They got a great flavor raw
So if you're eating a raw squash like that dip them in that ranch dressing, this is the variety for you These Golden Delight
Zucchinis are yellow. Most of the ones you've always seen are green but I like growing something a little bit different
This is one my favorite varieties of zucchini to grow of course, it's yellow but the fruit is always pretty consistent and these make great
Frying squash. It's a hybrid and they're again
they really
Productive so you could slice them up and all your slices are
Pretty much the same and they're easy to get up slice up and put in that frying pan and fry you up some good squash
Bees and pollination are really important
Growing summer squash and being successful at it. Now the squash plant has two different blooms on there
It has the male bloom and it has the female bloom the male bloom normally grows up higher and it doesn't produce any fruit
The female bloom is the one that produces the fruit now when the bee comes to the squash plant
He goes to the male flower first and does his business and gathers his pollen
Then he goes to the female flower and that's where your fruit comes from
So the bees have done their job and I got a nice squash there and you can see where the bloom is falling off
Now if I didn't have any pollination that fruit would be misshapen or it wouldn't set fruit at all
So I know I got good pollination there cuz I have plenty of bees and I got a nice squash
now this is the size right here that I like to harvest them at because they're nice and tender and
They make some good stew at that point
We got us a bucket full of squash and we're gonna go inside and fry us up some of these Golden Delights
Now I like to use a good peanut oil when I'm frying my squash now take you a small paring knife
Cut them ends off and go to slicing
What I got here is just regular plain flour, but I'm gonna put some seasoning on it and this is a pretty simple recipe
Now I like to use me some Cavender's so I'm gonna dust them down good with some Cavender's
Little garlic salt and
a little simple black pepper
Then I'm gonna run them through the flour
Got put a little more Cavender's in there mix them up good in that flour, get them dusted well
And we about ready for some grease put your little pinch of flour in there when it dances around. You know, you ready
Do some cooking
They turning brown and starting to float and it ain't gonna be long now
After you let them drain on a paper towel a little bit it's time to put that ranch dressing on there
Whew
And then you find you a big old shade tree where everybody we'll leave you alone. Get you big old glass ice water
You run them through some of that ranch dressing
That's good.
If you'd like to have some of these fine fried squash
There'll be a link below where you can get those squash seeds
And I hope you enjoyed this video and we'll see you next week on Gardening with Greg.