The main vegetable garden is elsewhere but Mary did have a lot in the flower area this year do to some rebuilding of areas and the addition of a ton of manure to fill the new raised beds that I put in last year.
However, fall is in the air. I was trying to figure out what made it feel like fall. I am thinking it's the sunlight. A different angle or something in the afternoon. Anyway something that my instincts/brain just picks up on as being the end of summer/beginning of fall just around the corner.
The salsa I made was still a bit strong for Hubby, but I told him to make it a dip by mixing it with sour cream or cream cheese. He's on the 3rd jar. I'll have to get some tomatoes from the farmers market, or the maybe use some canned to make more - ours didn't turn out this year-barely enough to eat.
The grocery has had good specials on chickens and tomatoes the last two weeks. So I canned about 24 quarts(2 cases) of chickens. Used the bones to make broth. Still have one last batch of broth to can in the pressure cooker.
Bought a couple of cases of tomatoes last week, and will buy a couple of more this week, since we didn't get enough to can this year. Ditto with the cukes and zukes - gonna have to get those from the Farmers Market-will have to go earlier. Wednesday they only had a few cukes and white zukes left. Got some for eating, but not enough to put up even a small batch for the winter.
Prayers up for all especially Johnny and Arrowhead. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
Pinging the list.
Should I put mulch down over that area, like I would do in the spring? Or is that a waste of time this late in the season?
Thanks for any advice!
Spinach is on it's way up. My seeds for my winter artichoke experiment are up and I've planted a few tomatoes to see how they'll compete with the plants that summered over. And a LOAD of blooms on the eggplants that summered over. They are actually kind of remarkable.
Hope is it will cool off at least a wee bit as I am really ready to chip the cedar and hackberry I cut down over the summer. Cuttin' it is easy, getting rid of it...not so easy.
Good for you!
We have green tomatoes. Ah, well, there’s still some time left.
Well I can’t even come close to that. We got a good crop of potatoes out of our two experimental potato buckets so I put out one more bucket of reds to see if I can get a crop before it gets too cold. They are up through the soil already. Planted some Spinach seeds and am going to go with plants from the garden center for everything else. collards, cabbage and broccoli. My collards made it through some 16 degree nights last winter. We ate them all winter.
Hey in Mo. kinda warm up there. Got a chance of rain maybe. As for cukes they grow so nice here for me until June comes and the Tx heat kills them off without producing fruits no matter the watering.
Doggone frustrating—thats 2 years in a row now. Oh well the swiss chard is robust at least. Green smoothies dontchyaknow.
My dear wife keeps letting the chickens out so they can be ‘free range’ and they are tearing up my beds. It’s driving me crazy. Finally decided to buy some electric fence.
The main vegetable garden is elsewhere but Mary did have a lot in the flower area this year do to some rebuilding of areas and the addition of a ton of manure to fill the new raised beds that I put in last year.
Looking out the dungeon window I see that it has begun to rain here in Central Missouri.
We really do need a couple or three inches of rain, but was hoping for a dry weekend so I could finish up the pond cleanout. A buddy of mine owns a track loader and has volunteered to close the dam for fuel and beer, which means I’ll be able to close it up before winter if the weather cooperates.
Not much happening in the garden aside from picking green beans and tomatoes. I probably should spend some quality time out there with the weed whacker this weekend. It’s beginning to look a bit shaggy.
What pressure-cooker-canner do you use? I’ve done lots of hot water canning over the year, but I’ve never ventured into the world of pressure cooking. But the idea of canning meat and broth intrigue me.
Can you also use it for things you can in hot water? I few years back I let son #2 take my big canner for making beer. I haven’t seen it since. Too bad as I also used it for my once (twice if I’m lucky) lobster dinner. I miss having a really big pot for those occasional cooking event ;-(
