Good morning gardening FRiends. It’s been a beautiful sunny mild week here in west Michigan. I finally dug my potatoes and also got the last of the carrots and a couple last hanger-on ancho peppers. Our compost bin is turned over and wet down before we stored our outside hoses. Haven’t had a hard freeze yet. Leaves are mostly down. Going to bring in some wood this weekend. Looking back it was our best garden ever this year. The warm weather has not been good for my sauerkraut! I have a big #8 crock that is still good. I did not put up the #6, I usually fill both. I had enough cabbage left to fill a small gallon crock which I figured would be done pretty soon but I lost it this week. Best place to do it with our climate is in the garage. It’s just been too warm at a bad time. Now I am thinking I should look for some cabbage at the store and do a second batch. The top layer of the #8 does not look good and I am going to scrape it off today. Michigan had a great apple year and bumper crops. Honey crisp were cheap 1.29 a pound and I just saw fujis, buy one bag get one free. Hubby is doing great on is chemo. Not getting sick and his numbers are way down. (chronic leukemia). So we are in good shape headed into the holidays. Having canned garden goodies makes for a nice Thanksgiving. Our favorite - pickled beets. Holiday blessings to all!
Good news about hubby. Prayers continue.
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.