[greeneyes]

Pinging the list.

[MomwithHope]

Hi there. Not much left in the garden but 4 broccoli plants that are still giving us broccoli. It was our best garden year ever and now that I am indoors more I hope to get this photo thing worked out. Still have a lot of nice shots I would like to post. Looking at some grow lights for early spring and starting some plants indoors so they will be further along when we plant.
Augie - read about Rocket spending more of her time roaming around. Maybe she'll hang around.
Diana - I keep meaning to write you I tried your suggestion about freezing the fish in foodsaver bags and that they would keep 6 months. I tried it - got a 5 pack of rainbow trout at Costco and have taken 2 out of the freezer now and grilled them, works great and I can taste no difference. I'll have to try that with some salmon when the Copper River ones come in. Thanks for the tip. I am still so jealous you have a mule. :)

[MtnClimber]

No gardening for many months. It snowed several inches yesterday and got down to 13F over night.

[left that other site]

This is the weirdest October I have ever seen. Some Autumn color, but the leaves are still mostly green and up in thre trees.

[SaveFerris]

I guess we’re gonna hit 30F tonight - 31F tomorrow night - it’s usually about 5a.m. when it hits coldest here.

I harvested 31 green peppers (medium to small) last 2 days. 3 big Marconi Peppers. A couple Sweet Snacking Peppers and there’s some Jalapenos to pull.

I’m wondering if they can handle this and next evening - we get 56 or so on Sunday - I was planning on pulling the rest.

I harvested several branches of Rosemary from one pot and dried it in the oven. Had some on a cheese pizza couple nights ago. Need to crush the rest and store.

I already pulled the ripening tomatoes except for a few orange grape tomatoes.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

My garden is just about done for the year. We had a hard freeze last night, so now I’ll harvest the Brussels Sprouts. I harvested and roasted the fall crop of Turnips, and while Beau liked them, I have discovered I really don’t like Turnips, LOL! No harm, no foul.

We harvested all of the Honeynut Squash (small butternut variety), so it’s curing before we store it, and we found a big old watermelon that was hiding in there, too!

We are now turning to ‘indoor’ tasks and since we had about $600 in rebates from Menard’s (like Home Depot or Lowe’s) for materials Beau bought for upgrades at the hunting shack Up Nort’, we bought a new storm door that is ALL glass and has the roll-down, hidden screen. I love it, the cats love it, the dogs love it...and I’m sure I’ll spent a lot of time with a rag in my hand cleaning it, but I don’t care! More daylight allowed into the kitchen - Yeah, Me!

We also bought new toilets for upstairs and down; ours are old and they ‘sweat’ in the humidity and make a mess, and it was just time for upgrades. We’re installing those, today. A new faucet for the main bathroom, too.

Best of all? New lighting for the kitchen! A pendant with 5 light pendants for over the island and a new snug to the ceiling fixture over the sink. Both were purchased with ‘bugs’ in mind - I wanted something that looked nice and didn’t collect bugs...which our current fixtures do. Ick!

So, once those are installed, that will most likely mean painting the kitchen ceiling, but that’s OK with me!

So, even if outside gardening fun is done, the inside fun can now begin! :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Ellendra]

I took a huge leap with my plant-breeding business this week. A fellow who owns the local feed store encouraged me to find a sponsor for one of my projects, and he even gave me a couple names of people to try. It turned out that none of them are in the habit of sponsoring projects like he said they were, but I decided to pursue the idea another way. I now have an Indiegogo campaign started for one of my beans!

I’m really not comfortable putting things out there like that, so I’m kind of freaking out a little.