WEEKLY GARDEN THREAD NOVEMBER 6, 2015

[tubebender]

It is snowing and 23F outside here in the Colorado Rockies.

Oh you're so Lucky...

[tubebender]

And now you’re double Lucky

[MtnClimber]

And I feel lucky too!

[tubebender]

Lady Bender’s sister visited from Golden Co last week. We tried to convince her to return here to the land of Fruits & Nuts...

[MtnClimber]

Does she think Colorado has better pot?

[greeneyes]

Excellent, we shall see how it goes.

[greeneyes]

I don’t have any experience with that. My garden isn’t that reliable. For example the only things that did really well this year, corn, potatoes, and green beans - not very good for CSA - might do a Farmers Market sometime though.

Our town’s fee is cheap to do that.

[greeneyes]

Impatience are so very pretty -I would want to save them too.

[CottonBall]

CSA ?

[greeneyes]

So glad your hubby is doing well and that you had a good year. We got taters, corn, and beans. Sadly the pickle supply is a bit on the low side.

We didn’t get enough zukes or cukes to put up a new batch. Not enough beets either. Better luck next year. Looking at greenhouses, and the one we want is out of stock. That’s going to be our Christmas Gift to each other, if they get stocked up so that we can buy it.

[greeneyes]

If Joe Bastardi said it, I’d bet on it! Glad hubby got me a Birthday gift today for next month - It’s an infra red heater - looks like a fireplace.

I have read that watching a fire will help reduce blood pressure. However, all the wood and ashes in the front room just raises it. This little gem may do the trick though. LOL

[greeneyes]

Congratulations on the new job, and the harvests. I think people who get to work from home are lucky. However, one drawback is that sometimes it’s hard to feel like you are off the job, and the family could sometimes be a problem, thinking that they could just barge in any old time.

[greeneyes]

How nice. It’s rare to see one here for some reason, but the do show up now and then.

[Augie]

I manufactured some spare time yesterday and actually did some work in my garden. We had a hard freeze Saturday night which finished off the tomatoes and green beans. This year is the latest in the fall I've ever had tomatoes produce. Mrs. Augie picked the last of the ripe ones, and ten gallons of green ones. I'm not sure what she's planning to do with those, but tonight for supper we'll have the last BLTs of the year.

Saturday I brought a load of sawmill waste home and added it to the pile, ran a tank of gas through my saw working on the big oak that I dropped last weekend, then hauled up four loader buckets full and dumped it on the pile.

Pops came over yesterday and helped me get the last two posts set for the new fence, then we spent a little time cutting a load of wood for his pile. After that I hauled another four loader buckets full to my pile. I used the loader bucket to take out three whopper-sized multiflora rose bushes that were growing at the edge of the pasture, and used those and a bunch of half-rotten deadfall to build a nice dozer pile for the cottontail bunnies to hide in.

The kale and beets don't mind a little cool weather.

Poor tomatoes...

I set out 150-ish garlic cloves and covered it up with ~4" of composted cow poo.

The woodpile is starting to look like a woodpile should look.

[Augie]

Anybody make hot sauce before that can give me some tips?

There's really no magic to making pepper sauce.

Grind up the peppers, let the mash ferment, throw in some salt, vinegar/tomato juice to get the consistency where you want it, pack in mason jars and process according to the Ball Canning Guide.

Oh... make sure you don't touch your eyes or any other other sensitive places while you're handling the peppers. I learned that the hard way! LOL

[greeneyes]

Thanks for the pictures. Nice looking wood pile. We had tomatoes one year through November. We have had several nights below freezing already, but my raised beds are kind of sheltered, and the garlic is pretty hardy anyway.

I am still just trying to clean up stuff, and get the leaves into a compost pile.