meatloaf, potato salad, tuna caserole, tomatoes, beans

[songbird]

all good.

we have a few tomatoes just ripened after being picked
a month ago. still taste better than many tomatoes at
the stores. we'll finish those up soon and that will be
it for the season.

gardens being finished now except i need to get the
last 1/4 around the edge weeded and turned of the old
strawberry patch. a few hours that will be done. also
have to get the garlic planted. anything else to do is
just finishing up whatever weeding i can do before the
ground freezes.

meatloaf we don't make very often but i can enjoy it,
the recipe is very easy, cook some onions, crumble up
some crackers or bread, add some milk and egg if you
want, mix it all with the ground meats you like and
bake it until done. the thing is many people only make
one or perhaps two loafs at a time while Mom started by
making four of them and then ran the oven again for
another two and then the next day she made two more
because someone doesn't like ketchup on top and she'd
already put it on and baked them. mushroom gravy and
mashed taters went with them.

the rest is all pretty much similar, very simple
recipes but still good and i'm not picky.

vegetables normally eaten here are carrots, apples
and i like peanuts as a snack, they also go very well
on a lot of things.

many beans still to shell out - they'll be cooked
up and eaten eventually.


songbird

[Janet]

Post by songbird
all good.
we have a few tomatoes just ripened after being picked
a month ago.

We've just eaten the last of ours; ditto the peppers and
aubergines. I've got enough stored potatoes left to last
until the end of November.

In the garden, I still have leeks, kale, and sprouts; all
of them will stand and be picked all winter. I don't
start harvesting till after the first frost.

In the freezer, I still have our own plums, gooseberries
and black currants and chillies. We've already eaten all
the peas, beans and mange-tout. I juiced the last of the
apples. I grow a lot of annual flowers among the veg to
attract pollinators/ distract the deer; just finished
harvesting their seeds for next year, and pulling out the
old plants to compost.

I've bought and planted more tulips down the edges of
the veg beds. I grow them for cutting for the house. Some
of them will flower again in later years, some are
shortlived. So planting more and different ones every year
makes sense. Yes it does. OK, I'm addicted to tulips.
Nobody ever died of tulips.

Just emptying the compost bins to move them for next
year. In winter I cover the veg beds in a heavy mulch of
compost and/or seaweed/ fallen leaves/horse manure. Worms
will dig it all in.

Jobs to do; harvest fresh parsley and freeze it. Trim
back the herb garden. Tidy the garden shed. Wash the
greenhouse inside.

Janet UK

[Citizen Winston Smith]

Post by Janet
We've just eaten the last of ours

Fucking choke to death on it, bitch!

[songbird]

Janet wrote:
...

Post by Janet
In the garden, I still have leeks, kale, and sprouts; all
of them will stand and be picked all winter. I don't
start harvesting till after the first frost.

i live with someone who will not eat all of those
except sprouts and unfortunately we have poor soil
conditions and a microclimate that makes sprouts rot
before i can harvest them. :(


...

Post by Janet
I've bought and planted more tulips down the edges of
the veg beds. I grow them for cutting for the house. Some
of them will flower again in later years, some are
shortlived. So planting more and different ones every year
makes sense. Yes it does. OK, I'm addicted to tulips.
Nobody ever died of tulips.

at one time i was trying to start up a tulip farm
and cross-breeding sources of various types of tulips.
alas our microclimate and soils also hated that idea
and i've largely now moved on to growing beans instead.

https://www.anthive.com/project/tulips/

gladly the daffodils survive outside the fenced
gardens well enough as the deer won't eat them.

Post by Janet
Just emptying the compost bins to move them for next
year. In winter I cover the veg beds in a heavy mulch of
compost and/or seaweed/ fallen leaves/horse manure. Worms
will dig it all in.
Jobs to do; harvest fresh parsley and freeze it. Trim
back the herb garden. Tidy the garden shed. Wash the
greenhouse inside.

we're getting enough frosts now that almost anything
outside is done except for the hardiest late fall
flowers (mums and a few others).

i'm hoping that today i can finish up dealing with the
old strawberry patch. it has only survived because it
is inside the fenced gardens otherwise the deer would
have taken it out. it's needed renovation for several
years so this year i'm finally turning it under. i'll
plant beans and peas in there this year to smother any
weeds for a year or two and then put it back into
strawberry production eventually, but i may have to
remove some trees that are starting to cast too much
shade first and will probably also redo the fence.


songbird

[Mike Duffy]

Post by Janet
In the garden, I still have leeks, kale, and sprouts;

[...] someone who will not eat all of those except sprouts

I need more context. I'm pretty sure 'sprout' applies to
any plant past seedling stage. Or have gardeners overloaded
the term to raise 'brussels' to the ultimate level of
implicity for an undeclared sprout?

[jmcquown]

Post by Mike Duffy

Post by Janet
In the garden, I still have leeks, kale, and sprouts;

[...] someone who will not eat all of those except sprouts

I need more context. I'm pretty sure 'sprout' applies to
any plant past seedling stage. Or have gardeners overloaded
the term to raise 'brussels' to the ultimate level of
implicity for an undeclared sprout?

I made the leap that songbird was talking about "brussels sprouts".
Could be wrong. He could have meant bean sprouts. <shrug>

Jill