Ohmygosh! October's been and gone!
Now, what DID I do in October? I take photos regularly, so going through my photo file is a good place to start. It looks like I finished up some canning and did some baking, so that means the temperatures went down. This was a busy day in the kitchen! I finally got some raspberries! They came on really late and just as I expected, not all of them were ripe before we starterd having frosts. I lost probably a third of what the plants set out due to frost. But I did get quite a few put into the freezer! I left these canes uncut so maybe I will get a flush in the summer? Anything to get more! Lots of unripe fruit! My helper and I dug up all the carrots, and there were more than I expected there would be, but the darn voles had gotten into them! So MANY were ruined. But we did end up with enough that I had to do something with them, so I ended up getting 4 quarts of carrot-ginger soup put into the freezer, and then blanched a...