Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the Middle of a Wisconsin winter part 2

I sent a photo on my phone, I don't see it on my big screen computer.
did anyone get it ?
one particular low spot it giving me fits. I should have kept that box blade a couple of days longer.
Some how I got grease "all over" me, according to Annie. must have happened when I checked the fluids on Ollie.
 
Today, I planted cloves from two of the three giant heads of garlic that I ordered. I failed to realize how many cloves there would be and how much space would be required. I need to work up more soil before I can plant the remaining garlic.

The last of the green beans is in the freezer; it's been my best-ever year for beans.

The electric company sent a recorded message this afternoon to let me know that they will be replacing two power poles (that have been problematic for years) on Friday and have a planned SIX-HOUR outage on a day when it's supposed to hit 88 degrees. Most sources say food is safe for four hours, providing it doesn't get warmer than 40 degrees in the fridge. I can move freezer stuff into the chest freezer in the basement and hope the perishable fridge stuff will fit into my old camping cooler. Guess I survived all those years when we kept food in the Igloo cooler in the tent for days with some bagged ice.

Jim, the urn back slips into a slot, can't be pried open and won't slip up and out. I'm not sure I can do anything with the urn, unless I can pry off the personalized metal plaque on the front and maybe cut through the bottom panel, then repair the hole after I insert someone else's ashes when the time comes.

How can it already be October? Where is the time going??
 
I sent a photo on my phone, I don't see it on my big screen computer.
did anyone get it ?
one particular low spot it giving me fits. I should have kept that box blade a couple of days longer.
Some how I got grease "all over" me, according to Annie. must have happened when I checked the fluids on Ollie.
nope
 
The last of the green beans is in the freezer; it's been my best-ever year for beans.





How can it already be October? Where is the time going??
I got green beans for one meal then the deer came and ate what they could get from outside the fence (pole beans) they also ate the vines themselves so it died and I never got anything more. :barnie

I've never seen this late of season with no frost :love
 
I looked back in my garden journal and in the last 5 years the years I wrote the first frost down for were all about the middle of October. New moon is on the 21st so that's my guess of when it will occur. Place your bets now. :)
 
I looked back in my garden journal and in the last 5 years the years I wrote the first frost down for were all about the middle of October. New moon is on the 21st so that's my guess of when it will occur. Place your bets now. :)
The average first frost here is probably mid september, the earliest I remember was August 20ish, 10 to 15 yrs ago maybe. I used to keep track in my garden journals but not so much that last few years.
 
good fff morning
i never kept track of first frost. i just always let it surprise me. lol
i watered the carrots, beets and strawberries,
i think it is the last time i will do that.
my beans and peas had great foilage, but not much for fruit. the rabbit $#t must be too high in whatever nutrient that was > nitrogen?
 
DD Barby showed me a different way to post pictures.
I hope this works.
this is one of my radishes. the big green grape is for comparison.
the radish was not hollow. i peeled it. don't care for the skins. it was not woody and tasted very good.
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