It is now the beginning of October, and as I look back, September has just disappeared! As is to be expected, there was a good deal of harvesting from the garden.
Sept 1 ~Acorn squash and I brought onions in that had been drying out behind the shed.
September 5 ~saw some tomatoes and beets.
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| Dr. Wyche's Yellow. I got quite a few, but these were the biggest. |
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Pickled beets, canned. And one pint jar of peaches.
I had more peaches but they didn't seal. |
Sept 11 ~I canned more tomatoes. I wasn't getting many tomatoes at a time, so I would pick and chop them up and toss them in the crock pot, the run them through the blender and stash whatever I had in the fridge or freezer. When I got enough to bother with, I'd pull them all out, warm it up and can.
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This is how I cooked down all the tomatoes this year.
Sometimes I left the crock pot out on the porch, other times I brought it in on the stovetop -
it depended on how hot the weather was. |
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| 3 quarts and 9 pints of pureed tomatoes. |
Sept. 13 ~ I decided to work on the strawberry bed. I harvested the celery first and ended up with enough for the winter, chopped and frozen, and a good amount left in the fridge to eat fresh for a few weeks. I got half the bed done. I ripped out everything and put back anything that looked like it had a healthy crown and good roots. Then I was worn out!
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| This is the best the replanted strawberries ever looked... |
Septemner 15 ~ Our wedding anniversary. We went to Morrie's Steak House.
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| 43 years together. |
Sept. 19 ~ I made salsa. Next time, don't add sugar!!!!
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Tomato sandwich with cream cheese... and chips with salsa.
Didn't need the sugar so I won't put that in again!
Still, edible. |
Sept. 21 ~ I was out in the garden again. This time to harvest all the rest of the pumpkins and squashes. But first, I had to empty all the finished compost out of the compost bin so I had someplace to put the vines to make next year's compost. Quite a job for me, but I got it done!
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| Emptied bin |
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| ...compost moved to a garden bed. |
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| Pumpkin and squash patch - going up the fence! |
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All cleared except for the impaled pumpkin!
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Modest harvest.
Previous harvest (a month ago?) was 7 squash. |
Sept. 22 ~ another batch of tomatoes canned. I'm running out of space in the pantry, so these were put into a box and stored on the floor under the bottom shelf.
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| Baker's dozen pints. |
Sept. 27th ~ I finally got back to the strawberry bed and had a little help. This time, I used runner plants that I had rooted earlier in the summer. They look much healthier.
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| My "helper" was more interested in finding bugs that pulling up plants. |
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Note to self: use rooted runners, not pulled-up plants to restart the strawberry bed.
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So by the end of September, this is what the garden looks like. The only thing really going are the raspberries. I might get a cucumber or two off this late-started plant, but not sure. It really doesn't get much sun.
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It's looking pretty spent.
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| But the raspberries are just getting going! |
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| Tiny little cucumbers.... |
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