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Happy to see activity here again.... @karenerwin I finally started pruning my dwarf fruit trees late last fall after not keeping up with it for three years. After cutting back the branches I could do with the limb cutter, I marked limbs for hubby to cut with the chain saw. It was a huge under...

Raccoons were stripping our pear and apple trees earlier this fall.

Found one pepper we missed in the garden when we stripped it before the freeze. Yep every thing except the turnips was zapped! Made 10 quarts of jalapeno relish and 7 pints of "Big Jim" hot salad peppers. Still have a 5 gallon bucket of banana peppers to process tomorrow.

We stripped the garden yesterday and I got all my plants inside. Heavy frost last night and freeze warning tonight. We made chow chow out of the green tomatoes. Ended up doubling the recipe and got 13 quarts and 13 pints! Nice water bottle holder! :celebrate Great hoop house...shows a lot...

Today, will be pulling the okra plants, watering the turnips. Moving more plants inside Hard freeze tomorrow night.

I mix a pint of pumpkin purée with the ingredients in a box spice cake mix, reducing water by 1/4 cup. Make a nice pumpkin cake. Today, I'm moving tropical plants inside...we are expecting a hard frost. That will clear my deck.

Did you get any rain? Was hoping the predicted rains helped with all the California fires. We are getting rain right now and had tornadoes in the line of storms NW of us.

I've made soap for years...spending time tweaking my recipes over the years. There are great soaping threads here on BYC in the hobbies section. Several years ago I put together an information packet on soap making . Pm me your email address and I will email you the packet. I made my own...

Vpicked a little okra and a few tomatoes yesterday. We are forecast for 2.5 inches beginning this afternoon thru the night....and HAIL...up to 2 inch. May look at stripping the peppers and green tomatoes.

Sears closed a bunch of stores and KMart is following suit.

So sad KMart went belly up. Ours closed after 35 years in the same location. Garden is winding down some. But turnips are up.....should be great by December. Folks around here seed turnips for winter grazing.....but we love them! Name the babies dinner, lunch, milk, butter....so you don't...

Pulled a few weeds this morning, then took a trip with 80 year old SIL to a residential campus where her daughter lives. She is 57 today and is a mentally challenged adult. We took her out for a birthday dinner and had a lovely visit. She then told us it was time for us to go home...she had a...

My go to seed source is Atwoods. At the end of season all seed packets go in big baskets and sell for 20 packets for $1. Picked a few tomatoes this morning.

In a pinch you can use a large colonder with spatula to press the frui thru the holes and separate the seeds. I used some old sheets to cover my squash at night to extend their growing time...old throw rugs work too.

Back home now and doing fine. Surgery was a typical case for Doctor. No weight for several weeks when stitches come out. Ice and meds as needed. This morning Got 6 rows of turnips planted in the 16 foot beds and found 6 lettuce to transplant. Also found some clumps of garlic I missed this...

Going to finish cleaning out a bed this morning and plant turnip seeds and lettuce transplants. I have a box of day lilies I ordered. That I need to plant also. Then get ready to go to the city at noon for surgery at 3pm.

Could this be chicory? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory

Compost those leaves for your spring garden....some of those trash logs would make an enclosure for the leaves and could be disposed of in the spring by placing them where water erodes near the woods edge.

We got two inches! Pulled a few weeds, picked okra again and a few tomatoes. Killed a tomato horn worm. Roasted the pimento peppers and then removed the skins, fine chopped and they are soaking in a water/vinegar/salt solution. Will make some pimento cheese spread tomorrow....er....in the morning.

I've been saving seeds for the exchange we were talking about last month. I have "purple basil", carnation poppies in a mix of colors (red, pink and purple), Scarlett sage, cleome, yellow marigold, pink fragrant 4 O'clock, Lee okra, Mammoth dill, Rose of Sharon.