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Final post

I'm still gardening as hard, but done talking about it here. Thanks for reading.

advice for family cooks

To all home cooks on Thanksgiving US: remember my mom's technique. She was a pretty awful cook, and when we complained, she said:

"I LIKE IT THAT WAY"

This is how I ended up needing my pot roast really burned. But it's a good approach. Underdone carrots, charred turkey leg, lumpy potatoes? "I like it that way."

You are welcome!

nearly done outside. enjoying the break

Yes, I do love to garden (except when I don't, lol!) But it's nice that all I have left to do at this point is deal with leaves two more times, pick up any branches that fall in ice storms, and enjoy the bounty that I've created. Here's a page from my next year's garden journal, decorated with stickers and washi tape. And after that, chicken stir fry with onions, peppers, fall broccoli, cashews, and a big outer napa cabbage leaf. Wonderful!

last of the summer garden

 and a couple other pix.

Garden helper (though she's nearly dead here)

pumpkins plus

last of the summer crops (today)

new composter, fruit salad, raspberry coffee cake

$20 bargain. taller and wider than me!

Grapes are Aldi's, others are mine

lost my muffin tin, so coffee cake it is!

 

What's in the fall garden.

In addition to summer crops that aren't quite done (peppers galore!), with nothing like frost predicted, I have some autumn crops in.

Rose hips

marigolds (edible flowers)

turnip greens

pumpkins "Sugar Pie"

carrots

radishes

broccoli

napa cabbage