Picking for the frost
It's likely to frost at
some point this week, so I went ahead and picked everything
sensitive. Green peppers are a giveaway item, while yellow and
red peppers will sit in the fridge and go in the next couple of weeks'
salads. I cooked up a huge basket of sweet corn and socked away a
gallon of decobbed kernels in the freezer. And the tomatoes I
roasted with carrots, onions, and garlic, then whizzed up in the food
processor to create a cream of tomato and basil soup.
What's left? Lots
of lettuce and leafy
greens, all of which
can be eaten at our leisure. Potatoes and carrots need to be dug
this week, and I'll probably freeze some broccoli since the heads are
expanding faster than we can eat them. Soon after that, the first
cabbage will be ready, right about the time we'll likely eat the last
of our sugar snap peas. These fall crops can all handle
temperatures down into the low twenties, so I'm hopeful we'll be eating
them for weeks to come.
What are you eating out
of your garden at the moment?
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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We are eating salad greens. I do have cabbage, broccli planted but not ready to eat yet. Carrots and beets are growing. I am able to pick a beet green here and there for the salad bowl.
Will be spending this fall and winter getting new gardening areas ready for the spring.
We had a hard freeze last night- 23 degrees. So everything from the summer garden is gone. I picked the butternuts that were ripe enough, and sadly said goodbye to everything else. One eggplant that had some nice fruits developing, but alas, too late! The buckwheat cover crop froze back but I turned the chickens loose and they sure enjoyed scratching around in the bed anyway. The fall planted carrots, lettuce,peas,cabbage and turnips are fine, but only the lettuce is eatable right now. and the kale.. But even some of that took a hit from the cold.
And I accidentally got locked inside the chicken coop! I had to crawl out through their little chicken door, which would have been pretty entertaining if anybody was watching. I was glad I had just cleaned out the coop with new fresh bedding!
Deb --- What a shame! I hate it when the first frost is also a hard, killing frost. We still haven't gotten ours, but I'm hopeful it won't be for us this year....
That's pretty funny about your chicken coop! Especially since I think I remember someone else telling me a similar story a couple of years ago? Sounds like chicken coop designers need to take the unintentional lock-in into account...