[Diana in Wisconsin]

*SQUEAL* on the cold weather indoor craft projects; my Yarn Stash needs some culling.

Garden tasks for me this weekend and into next week, weather permitting, and not in any particular order:

Prune off Lilac suckers (been making me crazy all season!)

Cut a bouquet of Gladiolus (Food for the Soul!)

Dig Potatoes (just a few for the week)

Clean out the greenhouse (Puppies got in there - shredded a few things)

Dry more tomatoes in dehydrator

More Mowing, but that’s coming to an end - FINALLY!

Grind/Shred more Zucchini for freezer

Pick remaining Cucumbers, pull vines

Make Tomato Jelly

Make double-batch of Zucchini Muffins to freeze

Clean out Canned Goods Pantry, rotate remaining food from last season, organize and stash 2019 canned goods

[MomwithHope]

I’m a list maker too just for spring and fall. Right now I’m trying to decide whether to use my big #6 crock for kraut or a smaller one. Will put that up next month.

[thirst4truth]

Wow, your list is as long as mine. Canned 21 jars of salsa yesterday, all ingredients from our garden, made two red plum pies, with crumbled top crust, soooo good and put 6 shelves of plums and grapes in the food dryer.

Most of our work is from the orchard, can't keep up with the bounty of fruit. Giving pounds and pounds of food to our local mission, yellow plums, red Bartlett pears, red plums, got 5 lbs of prunes from our 3 year old prune tree, just about to harvest my liberty apples and throwing a 5 gallon bucket or two per day full of old time apples over the fence for the deer.

I learned from my Master Gardener class that keeping the orchard free from dropped fruit and leaves in the fall will help with pest control the next year.