I was asked to make a carrot cake and so my first tour of Cosco I bought a 10 lb sack of carrots. Peeled them all, shredded enough to make two carrot cakes, and chopped the rest and canned 8 pints. They sure look pretty.
I still have not gotten my sweet potatoes dug as the ground now is soaked from last weekend's monsoon, but tomorrow is reported to be a warm up and so that is what I will do tomorrow.
My strawberry beds are also on my to get done list before the ground freezes. I will make some paths and add some black mulch. I have found that black mulch works best for weed control and retains the heat come spring when the plants begin to blossom. Strawberry beds always require lots of labor every couple of years.
Yeh. This was our 3rd harvest for the strawberries, so we ripped them out, and burned everything on top of the bed. We will probably plant some winter wheat after first frost.
Sprinkle a little clover in February. Turn it under at the end of March. Plant some Buckwheat in May. Followed by bush beans later in the summer to pick in the fall.
Alternative is to let the wheat mature, and harvest in June.
We have one of those round pyramid gardens set up as a replacedment bed. Filled it with topsoil and compost that we had hauled in earlier to amend some of our other plots.