Well, except for the parsley and the kale, both of which are loving the cold weather. But with a couple of hard frosts this week, and snow predicted for this weekend, the garden has pretty much given up for the season. I harvested the remainder this afternoon, leaving only the 2 tiny pumpkins which still have a little orange-ing to do (though they may not do it with this wintry weather, in which case we'll pick them half green and be half happy), and the Brussels sprouts which have yet to Brussel. I'm giving them every chance possible to do their thing before I yank them.
So, we've got a mess of swiss chard for supper tonight, and I'll make soup with the 2 dozen carrots and bushels of parsley (that stuff never gives up!). Plus there's another meal's worth of kale—James had pulled up the main kale plants a couple of weeks ago, since we'd been in kale up to our eyebrows all summer and they'd gotten pretty tall and skanky. But I left the "ornamental" ones in the containers at the corners of the garden and forgot all about them. When I went to check on the green peppers (sadly, zapped by the frost), lo and behold,
more kale! Our back yard is obviously Kale Heaven. Anyway, we'll eat that tomorrow.
And the bucket of green onions… I dug up the madding crowd of green onions and stuck them bulb-and-roots down into a small metal pail to carry up to the house, then decided to just leave them in the bucket and put some water in it to see how long they'll last that way indoors. When they start to wilt, I'll process them (somehow—make green onion soup?), but we'll see if we can have a supply of fresh ones for a little while longer. And it makes for a lovely Green Onion incense effect throughout the house. Perhaps we'll market it.
Well, except for the parsley and the kale, both of which are loving the cold weather. But with a couple of hard frosts this week, and snow predicted for this weekend, the garden has pretty much given up for the season. I harvested the remainder this afternoon, leaving only the 2 tiny pumpkins which still have a little orange-ing to do (though they may not do it with this wintry weather, in which case we'll pick them half green and be half happy), and the Brussels sprouts which have yet to Brussel. I'm giving them every chance possible to do their thing before I yank them.
So, we've got a mess of swiss chard for supper tonight, and I'll make soup with the 2 dozen carrots and bushels of parsley (that stuff never gives up!). Plus there's another meal's worth of kale—James had pulled up the main kale plants a couple of weeks ago, since we'd been in kale up to our eyebrows all summer and they'd gotten pretty tall and skanky. But I left the "ornamental" ones in the containers at the corners of the garden and forgot all about them. When I went to check on the green peppers (sadly, zapped by the frost), lo and behold, more kale! Our back yard is obviously Kale Heaven. Anyway, we'll eat that tomorrow.
And the bucket of green onions… I dug up the madding crowd of green onions and stuck them bulb-and-roots down into a small metal pail to carry up to the house, then decided to just leave them in the bucket and put some water in it to see how long they'll last that way indoors. When they start to wilt, I'll process them (somehow—make green onion soup?), but we'll see if we can have a supply of fresh ones for a little while longer. And it makes for a lovely Green Onion incense effect throughout the house. Perhaps we'll market it.
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I'm finding myself a bit envious. We did well on the herbs this summer but our tomatoes struggled...again. Moving them after last year's tomato-tastrophe didn't seem to make much of a difference. Next year I'm trying containers and we'll see if we remember to water them frequently enough. I only had one little, tiny, undeveloped orange pepper. Haven't even picked it yet, but we've not had a hard frost at this point. Doesn't help that most of my travel is during the good growing season!
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