Cut, cooked, and ate some chard today, and I’m happy to report that it’s back to its Springtime taste. It seems that just a week or two of cool, cloudy weather brings it right back to its mild-flavored best. I love swiss chard!
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Swiss Chard
3 October 2009More Frost
1 October 2009Another light frost this morning, and then it looks like we’re above freezing for a while.
Barely a Frost
30 September 2009There was frozen dew on the windshield of the car this morning, but none of the garden plants seem to have been touched by frost, so I guess I’d call that a very very light frost.
Yesterday I picked a watermelon from the garden, and we had it for desert after dinner tonight. Yellow flesh, not too juicy, not overly sweet, but good.
Also picked another bunch of red peppers and put them in the drier yesterday.
Also picked all the stevia and put it in a paper bag in the greenhouse.
Getting ready
28 September 2009Cut up and split some of the oak firewood that was too bit to fit in our stove, also some of the elm and maple from around the yard. Carried it with the wheelbarrow down to the greenhouse (aka solar kiln) and stacked it up high. It should finish drying there within the next couple of months.
Brought the sawbuck back into the greenhouse to dry it out so it doesn’t rot.
Our big white pine on the East side of the yard shed all its brown needles in the wind last night, so it’s looking all new and sparkling in today’s occasional sunshine. Raked up a bunch of the needles with help from G and D and dumped them in the garden. I’m not worried about occasional additions of pine needles making the soil too acid.
M picked a bunch of cherry tomatoes.
Yesterday, I cooked up a bunch of collards and kale in butter along with some ham and turkey spam and one of our red peppers in a frying pan on the stove. It was awesome. I’m finally figuring out how to cook and enjoy collards.
More Harvest
27 September 2009Dug up another row of potatoes today — 2 down, 3 to go. The end result is quite disappointing, don’t even want to think about the ratio between pounds planted and pounds harvested. But I did just throw them on top of the sod, so I can’t complain.
Cut the heads off all the buckwheat today and put them in two paper bags and put them in the greenhouse. A cold front is coming through this evening accompanied by strong winds and some rain, so I figured they might be laying down on the ground by tomorrow. Need to pay attention to them and spread them out if possible to get them dried.
Still no frost predicted.
Ending and Beginning 