[greeneyes]

Pinging the list.

[knarf]

Well, our SW Pa garden was good this year.
Not the best, but good.

We've decided to leave the sunflower stalks in place and use them next year for her Philippine long beans.

The tomatoes did well (again) on my invented "bed"

And I just came in from moving our chicken tractor in place so the biddies can come and go into the 6ft high, fenced, 50 X 50 garden.

I top dressed with cow manure yesterday and didn't till anything under ... I'll let the chickens have at it for the winter.

We'll see ... never did this before.

[Just mythoughts]

Thank you for the ping... Like you said it turned chilly and very windy here the past couple of days. Rain on Wednesday, before the chill down. Not that I am complaining, anything below 90 degrees is acceptable right now.

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.

[tob2]

Beautiful day today. Neatened the garden pots, planted pansies. I now a a nice bouquet of mums on the table. Cold weather veggies coming along nicely.