Pumpkin Crumble Muffins

A delicious idea for all those pumpkins you grew last season.

A lot went right in our garden last summer, and a few things did not. We learned that broccoli produces a lot more broccoli plant than broccoli flowers (the part you eat), so we probably won’t be doing that again. We learned that brussels sprouts don’t do well in our climate, although cabbage does. The problem is, we don’t really like cabbage.

These were all vegetables we experimented with in our outdoor garden which is finally fenced, as of last spring, and safe from deer. It was our first successful crop since beginning to experiment in 2020. When I say success, I mean we harvested over 200lbs of Yukon Gold and German Butterball potatoes, about 20 ears of corn, 27 spaghetti squash, and 30 French and Sugar pumpkins from the garden.

That doesn’t include our greenhouse harvest of tomatoes, peppers, basil, eggplants, spinach, lettuces - all our “hothouse” vegetables.

As you can see below, John fenced an area way larger than what we actually plant right now. But that’s John - he overbui…