Last night, it was 27 degrees F! Yep, it was supposed to be 30. The hoop houses weren’t heated as we’d spent most of the day splitting wood as the sun was out and we had visitors. We figured, “Well, 30 will be okay.” Oh well, we were wrong. The peppers all froze. Today, we’ll pick all of them, although we were hoping to keep the plants going for a couple more weeks. I need lots of Striped Sugar Rush Peach peppers for my Gaucho relish. Hopefully, our friends, Lynn and Jesse, who now run our seed business, and are coming Saturday to pick up tons of squash, pumpkins, beans, corn, etc. will be bringing some.
Today, after splitting wood this morning, I’m canning up the last of the apples. Some were pretty little, but I cut them up anyway. Apple crisp, pie, and cake sure sound good, don’t they?
Yesterday, I went out and picked the rest of the dry beans, getting quite a few. While I did that, Will pulled another row of onions. They were not very big, but he got a pail full. And I have another pail full that our friend, Heather, pulled last week. We still have two more rows I planted very late, to pull. Yes, most are smaller too. But, heck, they’re better than nothing!
Tomorrow, I’m canning up the first of the Kuroda carrots. We ate some with a meatloaf the other night and boy were they ever sweet and good! I’ve got a 50-foot row out in the Wolf Garden, so we have a whole lot more waiting for us. Now the nighttime temperatures are going to be higher, in the 40’s and 50’s F, so they’ll be fine for a while.
Will got the huge pile of firewood stacked and now there’s another huge pile waiting for him. The woodshed is getting full and we split up a bunch of shorter wood for the kitchen range, which is going in the old pig houses. We’re getting there. Such a relief! — Jackie
We had 24 degrees a couple days last week. I am in clean up mode. Shelled my blk beans this morning, which I love! They need to dry a little. We have 3 large dead trees that need to come down. Maybe this weekend. We like our son’s help. He’s wonderful.
We had a low of 39 this morning here in east central GA but no garden problems. The next ten days will be mid 70’s/mid 40’s. The broc, cabbage, kohlrabi and etc are loving it. Even the peppers are still putting out. Everything else has gone away.
I had ankle surgery 3 weeks ago and will be out of commission until Nov 11 when the cast comes off. Doc says no putting any pressure at all on it so no gardening for me. My sister has been filling in, planting the garlic, picking the field peas for me to shell and keeping an eye on things. Yesterday she picked the first fall Provider beans and they were so good! First cabbage almost ready.
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Jackie, you’re almost there, girl. Going down the last puttin’ up stretch. Those are some beautiful squash piled in the greenhouse. Georgia candy roasters?
Nope, much bigger! They’re Gete Okosomin, an Ojibwe squash traded 500 years ago from the Miami Nation. We’re getting there!
‘Heck .better than nothing’ you’re so right! i too have a small row of ‘try again’ onions. small but better than nothin. your dried beans look about like mine! Husband asks ‘when are you going to clean this up..’ canned up 7 qtr of apple pie yesterday.still have a few squash to get in’ fore the called freeze here Saturday. so sorry about your peppers! picked 4 1/2# jalapeños and 5# mix of hot peppers today. Lotsa cowboy candy this year! drying the mix peppers. Busy time for all .
I’m done with my Cowboy Candy and getting ready to do the first carrots. We’ve got a lot of Striped Sugar Rush Peach peppers that are still fine, despite the freeze in the hoop houses. So Gaucho Relish is on for the weekend. Yum!!
So, Jackie, what all livestock do you raise?
Right now, we have chickens, turkeys, cows, a horse and mule. Next spring, we’ll be back in goats after a tragic bout with Johnes Disease wiped out our herd two years ago.
I must have missed an answer to my question before Can you put me in touch with your seed catalog or web site? Thanks in advance.
Ron
Ron, if you click on the “seed treasures” up above the comments, at the bottom of Jackie’s blog today, then scroll clear to the bottom, you will see an email address where you can contact the new owners of Seed Treasures seed.
Thank you, Elizabeth.
You can contact the new owners at [email protected] and they’ll be happy to send you a catalog. You can also check out their website. It’s very nice.
Cooler weather is coming, and I cut some more wood yesterday. You can never have enough firewood. This morning, I’ve been stuck at home on the phone with the Medicare representative. My Plan D was cancelled, and I needed a new one. Wow, what a pain in the keister. After 2 hours, I finally got that done. You have an abundance of late produce and a lot of work. I dug up my sweet potatoes, and they were the largest I’ve ever grown, and tasty too. Now only cabbage, carrots, and Brussels sprouts remain. I had so many peppers I couldn’t get anyone to take. Now to get outside and get “important” things done.
Yep, we’re doing more firewood too, even though our woodshed is full, along with the two old pig houses. I’m going to stack kindling in the old goat shed so it’s out of the weather and still handy.
Gee, I absolutely HATE being on the phone like that. Did you at least get someone in the US?? I always get someone in India.
I’ve got huge cabbages and some late cauliflower yet in the garden. We can’t grow sweet potatoes here, even in the hoop houses. I’ve tried for years. Just too cool, I guess.
Good thing you have that wood!
I’m so grateful to have all that wood! Living in the middle of the woods ensures we’ll always have firewood. But, even then, when we can get some from a logging site’s slash pile, it saves “ours” for another day.
You can never have enough wood – be it split, seasoned ready to split, or seasoning. We filled up all our ready to split/seasoning storage so some needs to season is on the ground for now. When the buyers of the spoken for cord do their pickup, space will open up for the needs to season.
The wood stove is the great equalizer for the established and one of the now adult “kittens”. Until they both got too hot, they were snoozing, paws touching.
Since we should have harvested garlic sooner, it appears we missed harvesting some bulbs. We usually rotate where we plant the garlic but since a nice number of what I call volunteers, we’ll plant in the same area for this year.
Had other commitments this past weekend so no weeding time. But the predicted temps/rainfall should give me some more weeding time. Plus I have vacation time to burn.
I need to replenish a few supplies which I’ll be doing here soon. I can afford to do it now versus wait for prices to come down (not a viable option these days IMHO).
Yep, I don’t think prices will come down anytime soon. I buy on sale, when I can, for those things I need.
We’re still in the firewood/canning mode here, but both are getting past the frantic mode.