Monthly Archives: September 2010

Indian Summer has come; we’re feeling great and getting a lot...

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Slowly, slowly, Will and I are feeling better and doing more every day. Besides the "getting ready for winter" stuff, (canning, and building projects),...

We’re putting the garden to bed for the winter, but we’re...

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Although we're hauling compost down to our garden by the tractor load, we're still busily harvesting. I just finished the Swiss Chard. I plant...

With a tractor to help, our compost pile gets serious!

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From a modest compost pile a few feet high and about 10 feet in diameter, we now have a compost pile thirty feet long...

Squash, squash, and more squash…not to mention pumpkins!

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When the sun was shining, a few days ago, prior to a predicted frosty night, we harvested all of our mature squash and pumpkins....

We got our first good freeze, and boy are we harvesting!

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Despite falling off our barn roof, we still got a great, productive (although very weedy!) garden this year. Our plants outdid themselves. Before the...