10 7 2012 - Weekend Warriors

On Saturday the 6th, we decided we needed to dig the potatoes out of the containers, empty all gardens and plant the garlic.

First we started by getting the potatoes:

home grown potatoes

We strained the dirt through a rat wire strainer we’d made many years ago and collected all the potatoes.  I grew red, white and russet potatoes.  Some of the potatoes didn’t grow, but we got a 3rd of a pail full.

Radish Seeds

Next I noticed some odd pods.  Turns out a bunch of my radishes had gone to seed and I had radish seed pods.

I collected them and will dry them to either grow for next year or to try sprouting this winter.

Kind of spicy - but very tasty.

Finally, we pulled all the basil up and emptied out the containers it was growing in as well.

We made pesto with it, but it was kind of bitter.

However each time this summer we made pesto it was delicious and will grow more next year.

Next, we raked the raised beds and took the two kinds of garlic I had bought from Green Mountain Garlic.  Belarus which is a hard neck garlic and Silver white which is a softneck garlic.  Not sure of the difference, but we planted both in a raised bed and we’ll find out next spring/early summer.

bed on the left now has both kinds of garlic in it

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Then on Sunday we stacked a cord of wood.   This is the cord we needed to get stacked plus we had some we had pulled out of our electric cut from when the Electric Company sent some tree guys to come clean it out.

Kit and Tink

Tink Turner and Kit Dalrymple came over from Marlboro and Kitsie and Claire Maleney.  

Kit made a great supervisor at age 85 while the rest of us grabbed the two carts and pulled wood over to be stacked.

left is this years wood the right is building up next years

The entire cord was stacked and I made a veggie Chowder.

I put in onions, garlic in a pot with some coconut oil to cook.  Then I added some potatoes and water.  After the potatoes became soft, I added some Tuscan sunset seasoning (italian type) and some vegan chicken broth.

I cut up some baby spinach and added some corn.  We were all pretty hungry and ate the entire pot down before I remembered to take a pictures.   LOL!

When I woke up on Monday morning I found my legs were pretty tight and sore, but we got a good amount of our fall work done and that feels good.  It helps to have friends and family to help get a job done.