To all home cooks on Thanksgiving US: remember my mom's technique. She was a pretty awful cook, and when we complained, she said:
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!
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!
and a couple other pix.
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| Garden helper (though she's nearly dead here) |
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| pumpkins plus |
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| last of the summer crops (today) |
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| $20 bargain. taller and wider than me! |
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| Grapes are Aldi's, others are mine |
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| lost my muffin tin, so coffee cake it is! |
In addition to summer crops that aren't quite done (peppers galore!), with nothing like frost predicted, I have some autumn crops in.
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| Rose hips |
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| marigolds (edible flowers) |
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| turnip greens |
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| pumpkins "Sugar Pie" |
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| carrots |
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| radishes |
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| broccoli |
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| napa cabbage |
A pumpkin on the vine, and today's harvest. Ground cherries, tomatoes, tomatillos, peppers, and one okra (what does one do with one okra?!?)
I'm still moderately busy harvesting, preserving, and cooking a couple of times per day. But then the food tastes really good, so it's worth the effort. (and in January and February, I'll be thrilled at eating what I preserved). Yesterday while watching a video, I husked ground cherries, and this morning made some ground cherry muffins.
Day later: home-grown herbs whirred in sour cream on top of eggs, plus cherry tomatoes:
As of tomorrow, I'm running to get free mulch every morning, coming home, spreading it where I've torn out plants, and piling it up to cover the beds in winter after I tear out other plants. I have a load of wood chips on order at several places, but so far, no chips have appeared in my driveway. That'll be a big autumn project. After I've retrieved mulch, I need to do about 90 minutes of weeding every day for a week to catch up on that.
Other tasks: saved some strawberry runners that I rooted in potting mix, and need to get those in the "forever homes," as well as some perennial flowers I started (possibly too late, but that depends on when the first frost comes.) One more batch of tomatoes is in the freezer and I need to can those, but that can wait until a hot or cold or rainy day.
just trying to figure out how to get photos from new phone into here. : )
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| raining onto peppers, etc toay |
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| Harvest, beans, artichokes (!) sweet peppers, tomatillos, tomatoes... |
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| Tomato soup cooking for today's canning. |
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| lemon grass loved the heat. I didn't! |
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| Dwarf Tomato Project jungle |
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| forbidden love |
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| Charleston Gray watermelon 0-15 in 8 days |
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| First good 10 days of tomatoes |
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| crape myrtle, black eyed Susans, Echinacea |
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| Smaller of sunflowers, multiple blooms per stem |
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| full-sized tomato jungle |
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| table of petunias |
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| yellow onions doing fine |
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| tomatoes growing up |
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| chives in bloom |
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| broccoli broccing |
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| after a harvest of 3/4 pound, I still have loads of lettuce! |
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| yellow and purple foxglove just opening |
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| decorative allium |
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| iris buds |
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| azalea, still not looking great |
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| skinny brand new asparagus |
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| bagged potatoes. 150 more in ground |
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| broccoli, looking good so far |
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| the white or pink currant |
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| lettuces in foreground, spinach behind, peas behind that |
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| peppers, radishes, kohlrabi |
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| One of about 90 tomatoes. (I know! crazy!) |
