Last Of The Garden

[DM]

Today was a very nice sunny day here so i thought i'd clean out my front garden, and also pick the last of the Butternut Squash,

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Even the vines that went up into the walnut tree produced pretty well. The weight of the squash pulled most of them down though,

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I had waaaay more than we will ever use, so i gave them away, and put Five pails in storage for us. I also left some out to make pies with along with some of the apples i picked yesterday,

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Butternut squash used like pumpkin, gives you a pie that's very hard to tell from pumpkin pie!!

Now, to get the garlic planted and clean out the back garden!!

Hope you enjoyed the picts...

DM

[libertylover]

Beautiful pictures and my neighbor make pies
from squash too. Thanks for the showing.

[lost1]

Really great photos, reminds me of what a garden should look like.
A drought in my area made things very different here.
Thanks I'll try again next year.

[rideaway]

beautiful pictures. Ours is about done also-still have the beans on the fence drying, and beets, sunflowers and corn, but that's about it...kinda sad in a way, but refreshing to clean it up. :-[

[StephiLou]

Great pics! I was out in the garden at 10 the other night with a flashlight and gloves. We were going to have a good freeze, so I picked off all of the gree tomatoes. I also had about 8 lbs of green beans that were ready. I think there were more, but I couldn't see really well. :)

Steph

[bookwormom]

oh, the apples. I just got some at an orchard and they are tasteless.
well, we still have a few fall things out, salad greens, peas, turnips, radishes, greens. we had four hard enough frosts so far and this fall was much cooler and sooner so, than last year. I have my butternut squash on shelves in the rootcellar, above the one with the ripening topmatoes. the sweet potatoes did not produce very well, my first try, but what we got is good. I am already making plans for next year.

[leera]

Thanks for the late season tour DM.

I'm still waiting for the park owner to get done with whatever it is they are doing behind us so I can rebuild my garden bed.

Bookwormmom,if the apples were tasteless,they may not have been ripe yet.....underripe apples are very blah tasting,have a friend who owns an orchard,that's what he says anyway.

[MYellowRose]

Great pics, those squash and apples sure look appetizing. :D
Pulled up and threw away my tomato plant the other day, no place for a compost pile, and the soil around the roots was very soft. I'm going to make sure I put mulch around whatever I plant next spring as I'm sure it helped the bucket hold water rather than drying out so quick.

[Terri]

Tasteless apples are most EXCELLENT when cooked with a little lemon juice to bring out the flavor, and some sugar to sweeten it. When you add the lemon, you really DO get a lot of apple flavor!

I boil the apples in a little water and cool them. THEN, I take the peels and squeeze them to get the juice out. THEN, I squeeze and discard the cores as well! Add just a LITTLE lemon juice and sweeten.

IT will drive the canned applesauce off the market in a heartbeat!