Potato harvest

Last weekend, we harvested the rest of the potatoes. It was fun digging through the soil, a bit like finding Easter eggs on Sunday morning. My youngest daughter and her friend enjoyed helping.

With the Holidays quickly approaching and more left to do to prepare for Winter, I have decided to do a final harvest from the garden this weekend and then pick up again in the Spring. I will be reporting on my indoor kitchen gardening experiments in the meantime.

Late Autumn update

I have not figured out how to back-date posts so I will post something I wrote on October 27 and then continue with this week's update. October 27: This past week, all of the trees that were green finally put on their autumn colors. There are many trees that are bare now, but the garden is still growing and producing beautiful greens. I was especially impressed by the lettuce when I took off the plastic cover Monday morning. We are having a bit of a "warm" spell. I don't know if it qualifies as an Indian Summer, but the sunshine and relative warmth are appreciated. November 11: I harvested some kale, lettuce, parsley, carrots and beets Monday morning. We had beautiful weather in the 60's Saturday and Sunday thanks to hurricane Ida pushing the warm Gulf air up our way. It often happens that when there is a hurricane churning in the Gulf, our weather is as perfect as one can imagine. When I looked at the weather forecast for the week, it looked like it would stay above freezing, so I left the plastic covers off the garden frames. To my surprise, we had a heavy frost last night. I am hoping that the lettuce will survive. Because my last planting of lettuce did not come up, there is a lot of open space in the garden frames, but there is enough left to experiment with extending the season.