We are in for 3 days of a hard freeze. Today and tomorrow and the next day temps in the 20's are predicted. This is damaging to any crops left out in the gardens. We had no choice today but to pick as much as we could salvage. Some things can tolerate the temperatures. The first night the pumpkin and winter squash vines will die, but the fruits will be OK. However, the following two nights we will have to cover the squash and pumpkins with tarps because the greenery cover protecting them will have died. This is very early for killing frosts for us! Usually we have our first killing freeze towards the end of September. We also picked many tubs and buckets of apples from a friend's tree this morning because the apples were starting to fall off the tree.
This will be a very busy week for us, not only because we will be working with honey, but I will also have to sort, wash and price all this produce for market on Thursday. Harold will be out in the fields helping with the sugar beet harvest on Tuesday and Wednesday. We picked a LOT of veggies today! Just take a look:
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We picked these onions a few days ago. They need to dry in boxes. There are sweet onions, red onions, white onions and yellow onions ready for market. Thirteen boxes full!
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Lots of green peppers and hot peppers and snacking style sweet peppers. Also one of the tubs of apples we picked this morning.
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We managed to find two more tubs of nice looking tomatoes for market.
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Lots of apples! The bucket of smaller apples are very sweet and will go into applesauce to can up. Some of the larger apples will also become applesauce, and the rest will be for eating and for pies!
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Here are several bunches of statice flowers that I dried. They make wonderful winter bouquets and last for years, even retaining their color! I have a little bit more statice out in the greenhouse that I need to collect and dry. Soon I will be re-arranging the porch for fall and will decorate with pumpkins and statice bouquets and bittersweet wreaths.
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I certainly will not lack for work this week! Between honey bottling, market day, and canning applesauce that's enough!
1 comment:
Looking at all the work you need to do yet, makes me sleepy. Good time for a nap eh? No, can't nap when the sun is out. Wasting time. Hope that all goes well for you. They seem to be stuck on parking meters here at the end.
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