Gardening Gardening

We were very excited to find/grow black rims this year. They didn’t produce as much as our Cherokee purples, but they seem to be more cold tolerant, which makes sense. So here in WI that’s a good thing. Time will tell when the vine will just stop, but for now it still looks healthy and is ripening fruits nicely. Our other vines are basically done and our cucumber vines look like utter crap. We had a bumper harvest of them this year, so I’m happy to say, “see you next year, cukes.”

 

We are still enjoying a nice harvest up north.

 

Some serious carrots there!!

 

Probably our final harvest. Still getting fresh salad greens/lettuce near the end of Oct.



Bagged some mint.


Threat of frost tomorrow night so I picked all my peppers.


And had some late corn. 2 ears are West Virginia variety.


What a great year for gardening!!

 

hovlandhomestead do you scrub all the dirt off of the carrots and potatoes before storing? Or clean them up just before using?

 

I don’t scrub or clean the potatoes. We eat and keep enough of those for planting in the spring.

I lightly rinse my carrots and dry before putting in bags for the referigerator. I give a lot away and we the ones we save are all eaten by the beginning of December. I used to pressure can a lot of carrots, but don’t really like them as much that way.

 

We had about 30 lbs of carrots one year out of the garden and we stored them in sand. It was a pain cleaning them before cooking them and campinspecter really likes raw carrots to munch on. I don't think our cold room was cold enough so the last few had started to sprout.

 

Planted some hardneck garlic today. Then, used straw for the mulch.

 

A wintery mix is moving in tomorrow so I’m going through the beds and harvesting the last stragglers of the season. I let these green beans go too long so they’ll get fed to the chickens and rabbit. I saved a bunch for next year’s seed and I figured I’d mix a few in with a batch of chili at some point too. They have a pretty color to them.

 

Carrots can stay in the ground a while longer.
These marigolds pop up by themselves every year.

A patch of cilantro and Swiss chard volunteers that can stay for now. I’ll bet eventually I can harvest enough to run the dehydrator in a couple weeks from now.


3 year old asparagus bed that I haven’t harvested yet. This is the first time it’s produced seeds.



Some young lettuce that should hang on a bit longer until we get a really hard freeze.

 

Pulled some beets (Detroit dark red) yesterday.


These were planted in early July. The May planting was pulled in July for pickled beets.

These will be for storage and eating this winter… baked or boiled with butter, salt, pepper.

 

Yum!

 

My lettuce and cilantro patches have been in suspended animation for weeks, going through several hard freezes. Somehow they’re still hanging in there. It warmed up to 40 and raining today, and they perked right up. Soon I’ll harvest it before the real cold weather wilts it for good.

 

I completely forgot about my carrots
I never thinned this row after sowing so they’re not huge, but good nonetheless.

 

Looks like ya'll had a great summer gardening. Sorry I didn't post to much but everything did pretty good except the sweet corn when it got dry. Prices were good at the produce auction all summer. Sthil have cauliflower, brussel sprouts and romenesco to pick. A few turnips are stihl out there too.
Some of the pics were things I took to the local fair this fall.

 

Couple more.

 

Wow, you killed it this year!

 

Garden is stihl giving. Some going to produce auction and some for me and the neighbors.

 

And a little bit more.

 

farmer steve Nice looking brussel sprouts. Ours in the stores here don't look half as nice. The white veggies? Cauliflower?