What did you do in the garden today?

[pennyJo1960]

Ya but have to scrape the tables and collect eggs raining here also

 

[Sueby]

Hey all.

Got all the Dahlia tubers dug up today, cleaned, dried a lil & packed away. Phew, that's good to have done. Looks nekkid out there tho! I got 5 boxes of tubers. Sheesh, more than anyone needs!

Got the deck all cleaned off, all the misc pots put away. Got all the compost gold moved to a pile behind the coop so I can use that bin to collect leaves. That compost will be used for the new beds going in in the spring. Got the active bin turned & got a bag & a half of leaf mulch stored.

Night peeps.

 

[Sueby]

If you want some next fall, I can send you some bulbs.

That is so nice of you, thank you.

 

[Silviaschicks]

Weeding and raking! Last of the potatoes are sprouting up, last of the carrots and cucumbers were harvested, and the calla lilies and elephant ears are coming back!

 

[jerryse]

Hey all.

Got all the Dahlia tubers dug up today, cleaned, dried a lil & packed away. Phew, that's good to have done. Looks nekkid out there tho! I got 5 boxes of tubers. Sheesh, more than anyone needs!

Got the deck all cleaned off, all the misc pots put away. Got all the compost gold moved to a pile behind the coop so I can use that bin to collect leaves. That compost will be used for the new beds going in in the spring. Got the active bin turned & got a bag & a half of leaf mulch stored.

Night peeps.

FYI Dahlia tubers are edible like potatoes . Fry some . I learned this years ago . A story about a place that hired Mexicans to plant a lot of Dahilas . They kept missing a lot of tubers . The Mexicans were taking them home to eat .

 

[Sueby]

Wow, I have never heard that! Good to know & funny story!

 

[Ascholten]

Terrible day last 4 days. Yesterday was a bit sunny but was helping a friend with a festival he puts on at his sustainable farm. Today, I hope to get some zoo poo moved around and my totes set up to put my garlic in, it finally arrived the other day !

Aaron

 

[Acre4Me]

Really behind on this thread! But, figured I'd add some pics.


1. Gourds DO NOT like any frost at all. AT ALL! Every year - this happens. These two pics are 24 hours apart. Most of what you see green here is Luffa Gourds. The green at the bottom are Nastursium.


Happy Gourds:

Unhappy Gourds. This was a very light frost - around 31F. (Nastursiums are still happy)

2. Only SOME of the peppers from our garden for pepper sauce (We grow mild/sweet/mildly spicy Italian type peppers). Perfect for all sorts of food applications. We pick only fully red ones, wash, chop, freeze, until the end of the season, we thaw and process with some vinegar and salt.

Here is some of the finished pepper sauce. We keep in fridge for 2-3 weeks to properly age, then freeze them. The HOT ones are from known hot peppers (red, yellow, green) that someone else gave to us.

3. CARROTS! colorful selection - picked them all before the hard frost we got about a week ago. These are blanched, then glazed in a pan for dinner.

 

[Acre4Me]

First foray into the garden this fall. They were so happy! We still have mustard green, and brussel sprouts growing. In another area we have Rutabega and turnips still looking good. We expect to pick all these in the next week as temps will likely drop at night, into hard freeze temps.

Notice Tom Turkey and Jenny Turkey in the pen behind the chickens. They will get butchered just before Thanksgiving!. They are Bourbon Red Turkeys.

 

[igorsMistress]

@BReeder! This is where I’m putting the pond. I’m moving the compost to the other side of the garden and putting in another Arabian lilac so the pool will be in shade most of the time. Also, the pond liner is 65 gallons I think. With the spigot and leader hose I can direct the water to the trees or shrubs so it doesn’t go to waste when I drain it. I may keep the lattice up and put down some pavers and plants so the pool doesn’t get super muddy.