Month: October 2022

Succulents

Potted a few succulent pups in my etched jars. I like to give them a few weeks to get situated before the holiday shop.

I also moved some pups into a big pot in the greenhouse as an experiment.

Garlic and Cleanup

Fiiiinnnallly got some rain and got garlic in the beds that had tomatoes. South A got (east to west) Italian Late, Duganski, and Music. West H got a mix of (east to west) soft neck and hard neck from this year’s harvest.

While we’re leaving most stuff out for now- I also cleaned up the tomato bags and okra. I transplanted the healthiest looking pepper plants into the greenhouse (with the heater) and one okra. We’ll see how they fair. i also started some beet and arugula micro greens in there.

Apple Cake

We got inspired by the bake off and memories of my grandma’s apple cake. I found an old recipe that was very good, but not quite what I remembered. I made some adjustments and plan to use even more apple on top next time.

Salsa in October

    Such a weird year. We still have tomatoes slowly ripening the n the garden. We haven’t had measurable rain in forever, and today, MIDOCTOBER, it’s 80 degrees out.

    Anyways, we’re making more salsa. This was a 60% batch and p is adding about a quarter of a habanero pepper in the batch.

    6 cups of tomatoes (.6 batch) filled almost 6 jars

    Jelly

    Grape Jelly Day. We barely made a dent in the grape supply to get a full pot, so we’ll probably have at least another batch in the next few days.

    *EDIT- I went out and harvested more than another full batch.

    Still waiting for us AFTER the two baskets.

    We used the usual ball recipe but a low sugar pectin

    Salsa!

    Turned all those tomatoes into salsa today

    Following the recipe we definitely needed more jars- I also cooked down the skins and trimmed bits and strained them for paste.