We have a gorgeous week ahead - sunshine, fall foliage, the perfect fall days. It was 38 this morning so my two pepper plants, that I left in the garden, are not happy - rather ‘wilty’. They may perk up again with the warmer weather ... if they don’t, that’s ok.
This morning, while it’s ‘chilly’ and the grass is wet, I am making ghee & cutting up a pork loin into medallions & putting them in a marinade. They can stay in the marinade for 3 days ... hopefully by then, I will be tasting/smelling again ... I don’t want to make them until I can enjoy them.
Sungolds are like your Chef’s Orange/Black tomatoes. The plant gets HUGE and becomes a total pain - hard to get to some of the tomatoes to pick them, sprawls majorly out of the raised beds, gets tangled in the fencing. Not only that, but the next year, you end up with baby Sungolds coming up everywhere - they even grow in the wood chips (no dirt)! I planted Sweet 100’s for mom, but let one Sungold volunteer come up - got maybe 2 feet tall & just picked the last tomatoes off of it.
During my forced ‘quiet’ days, I am thinking about what & where I am planting things next year ... already! I am cutting way back & going herbal/flower. “Salads” are going to be mostly herbs ... might grow some greens for a base. German Johnson tomato for mom & one cherry tomtato plant. Jalapenos of course. Probably a bell pepper plant. NO cukes. Spaghetti squash outside the fence ... deer should leave them alone. DAHLIAS ... my new favorites ... for sure! The tithonia shocked me & self-seeded this spring in the hummer garden ... I think my hollyhocks that germinated in there got crowded out - I need to go on a hunt for them.
Today, trying to figure out if I mow (& roundup leaves into piles around the maple trees) or spend the day putting up a new compost pile & mow/move leaves in the next couple of days. I think it’s going to depend on how windy it is.
Deer processing will probably be tonight unless my SIL decides I should be treated like Typhoid Mary due to my adventures with the “flu” last week. I’m fine, actually have some energy ... back to my allergy issues, nothing else.
BTW, that podcast I like ... he bear hunts :-)
Worked on my new compost pile today. I checked all the pole barns looking for possible materials to use, but ended up with my original idea: T-posts & plastic netting taken off my garden fencing panels when I redid them with wire.
My post pounder is 18.5 lbs so that makes for an arm workout! First two post were ‘easy’, really feeling it after post #3. I took a break, then tackled post 4 & got it pounded in fairly quickly. The bin area has been raked, used a weed eater to cut any grass, weeds, etc down to the dirt, & got one piece of weed barrier down.
At that point, having to bend over for dealing with the weed barrier & pounding in staples to hold it down, my back was saying ‘enough! I will finish the bin tomorrow morning & start rounding up leaves in the afternoon when the grass has dried. The bin is 10’x10’ (old one is 5’x5’) so I should have enough room to turn the leaves & hopefully have a ‘hot’ pile. I also paced off the distance from the water hydrant to the new bin & my 100’ new hose should just reach.
Processing is tonight, I think - I will be pooped after that is done.