Filed under: dahlias, gardening, tomatoes | Tags: dahlias, fingerling potato, first frost, melonette de jaspee vendee, pumpkin, thanksgiving, winter luxury
They’ve been giving us freeze warnings for the last two days. But as of Tuesday the 8th October, we’re still good to go. We did go out and do a big harvest in preparation, which resulted in a really pretty assortment of dahlias!
bouquet of mixed dahlias!
our thanksgiving dinner dahlias!
pumpkins came into the kitchen!
dug up some more fingerlings and picked the last tomatoes
Filed under: beans, farm, gardening, pumpkin, recipe, spinach | Tags: food, frugal gardening, hoop house, nature, pumpkin pie, pumpkin soup, pumpkins, re-use, trampoline frame
some of the pumpkin collection
I warned you. It was a bumper crop! In this picture we have melonette de jaspee vendee (little yellowish ones). And Winter luxury pie pumpkins. So far, I’m made pumpkin bean soup, pumpkin leek soup, and a maple pumpkin pie. Sheesh, it’s not even Thanksgiving yet! Yes pumpkin will be on the menu this sunday! Thinking to do maybe a pumpkin spinach gratin, and of course a pie, probably my regular one.
Here’s the rest of the collection.
grand entrance to casa turdacres!
Don’t ask about the ladder!! These big ones are musquee de provence. It said they would be about 20 lbs, but these are more. Yikes! Hard to lift them. I’ve given away a few of the bad boys, but clearly need to start delivering them to unsuspecting neighbors or something!!
Yep, we’re working on our trashy yard vibe this year. Here’s our new patio arrangement…
casual seating plus water garden!
Featured in this area is our *new* aluminum glider (2.00 and came with free cushion!), alongside part of our 150.00 haul of old metal furniture. The water garden is a new thing. Notice the white pipe at the top left? That’s draining water off a flat roof over the patio which, for some unknown reason, was never fitted with a drainpipe! Water just accumulates up there and then it runs off on in one corner–rotting the roof line! Well now, we fixed that!
Water now runs out the pipe and into the galvanized trough which our neighbors had discarded. The plastic bit of gutter guard is in there, can you guess why? It’s an animal escape system. We learned the hard way that animals can’t get out if they fall in. RIP squirrel buddy 2010.
Yep we’re doing crazy rustic round here. Including a newly installed hoop house (cost 10.00 for a screen door). We made this bad boy from a trampoline frame, plastic sheet, some rebar stakes, plastic electrical conduit and…binder twine! It still needs some work, but we were happy to test the design. It gets pretty hot in there. Clocked it at 122 one day!!! So we’ll need some venting options.
dad likes to do a project when he comes down. this was a doozer!
While we have a lot of projects on the go (I won’t even show you the cardboard mulch project in the lower garden, or the new brick project for the potager)..one thing remains the same. Sure love that barn. It’s just so pretty!
barn with new hoop house neighbor
turdacres 