Beets are Gone

After breakfast and the news I worked at the desktop computer and finally was able to make a business card.  It contains the information needed to recruit CSA members or customers.

I went out to house two to prepare the vegetables for the CSA box.  When I do this I  have to bend over to wash and rinse the beets or onions.  I made a higher bench with blocks, bricks, and two 3x4's.  It worked much better but was still not high enough.  I spent an hour to save a half hour.  I do that all the time.  This save on my back.  I half fill each bucket with water.  I wash off most of the soil in the first bucket and rinse in the other two buckets.

About ten I made another CSA box.  I pulled the rest of the red beets.  I was able to make five bunches.  I picked five cucumber.

All that is left of the beets are a few dried up leaves.

After lunch I raked the leaves on the back lawn.  Raking is not entirely right.  I used a blow to make piles and then used a rake or scoop shovel to get the leaves onto the tarp.  I laid the tarp on the lawn and then used a steel pipe to hold down the edge facing the leaves.

 In the case I used the scoop shovel to load the tarp with leaves.

 I grabbed four corners of the tarp, pulled them together and put them over my shoulder.

I am making no till garden with straw, leaves, cucumber, and corn stalks.  Most of it should be decomposed by nest spring.


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The Coldest Morning this Fall

The first thing that I did  after breakfast was walk out to house six.

The lettuce that was growing out the was tipped over because of the frost in this house.

It took me a little over an hour to get the CSA box ready.  It took to totes two make one box.  In this box there are beet greens, beets, tomatoes cucumbers, onions. parsley, French parsley, onions and one small sweet potato.  I took them to the post office and they were soon taken.

I worked in house six most of the day.  All of the tomato plants are gone.  Most of the twine is hanging high on the overhead wire.  The above picture is looking to the west.

The above picture is looking to the east.  The lettuce is on the right.  I picked a large bunch of lettuce and feed it to the chickens.  They really like lettuce.


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CSA and Post Cards.

Yesterday, I picked a bucketful of tomatoes.  Most were barely getting ripe.

I took them to the post office on our way to Fillmore.

Alisha called and wanted a cat trap.  I have one we took it to her house.  She has three cats that she wanted catch and take them to Fillmore and have them fixed.

We drove to Fillmore where I got a new driver's license.  I took the eye test and was asked to read the letters on line three.  I guess I got them all right because they didn't ask me to test with my glasses on.  We then bought some groceries.

I worked most of the afternoon at the computer, trying to create a post card which I could give or mail to people interested in a CSA box.  I could not get it to where I could print it.

After this I worked in house six pulling up the tomato plants.  It froze all the tomato plants last night.  I cut one off near the roots.  Then removed the tomato clips and then taking out the west door and put them on the compost pile.

We have two red hens and one of them fly out of the chicken run.  It was with me for a short time in house six.

I walked to the post office and beyond.  I walked for one half hour.  When I got home I got in the car and picked up the totes at the post office.  Everything was gone except five tomato plants.

A person from Scipio brought some cuttings from some shrubbery in she picked up Homestead.  She wanted me to identify the shrubs.  She wanted to get some to plant them in her yard landscape.  They are pictured above.  I couldn't identify them.  I am send the pictures to Robert.


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House Six Cucumbers are no More

We were home from the Manti Temple a little earlier today.  I got quite a lot of work done.

This afternoon I removed the dead cucumber plants that were growing on the north side of house six.  I had to pull them up and remove the tomato clips.  I then wound the twine on the tomahook.

 I pulled all of the drip lines through the west door and laid them out in the orchard.  That made it much easier to pull the cucumber plants.

All the cucumber vines and many of the cucumbers are in this composting pile. There are tomato plants in the pile and well as other plants.

Last week I baked a kohlrabi plant.  I am going to do another one.

I cut one and took it the chicken run where I cut off all of the leaves.  The chickens love them.  It is in the fridge for tomorrow.

I didn't think that there were any tomatoes left.  But I picked a bucketful.  They are beginning to ripen.  These I will take to the post office tomorrow.


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Cleaning the Pole Bean Trellis

This blog covers Saturday, Sunday, and today, Monday.

Saturday morning, I picked up the tote at the post office, and there was one bunch of beets left.  It was badly wilted.  I brought it home and was going to throw it away, but decided to cook it instead.  I boiled it and put it in the fridge.  When we got home from the temple I warmed it up and in the micro wave.  I seasoned it with salt and pepper and put on a healthy portion of butter.  It was pretty good.  It tasted as though it were freshly picked and boiled

We put a kohlrabi the over with a casserole and squash.  When we got home from church the casserole was nearly done.  After twenty minutes the casserole was done.  the kohlrabi was not tender.  I left it in the over for about 45 minutes.  It was finished and I didn't take it out until supper.

The kohlrabi was pretty old and tough.  I cut off the more tender top and baked it in the over.

 I peeled the kohlrabi and cut half of it into small pieces.  I the salted and peppered it and then put on it melted butter.  It was tender and tasted pretty good.

The half was cut into small pieces and then covered with sour cream.  It tasted good.

I took the red fountain grass that was on the front porch and took it to house two.  I am saving it for next year..  

I pulled a bunch of beets, removed dead leaves, and carefully washed them.  I sorted them in to bunches and held the bunch together with a rubber band.  I made six bunches.  I then picked six nice cucumbers.

A pretty nice tote of vegetable.

The same tote but at the post office.  Yesterday, ended daylight saving time.  When if got home I prepared my lunch.  Instead of lunch at eleven thirty, I started lunch an hour earlier.  I ate left over soup.

There were three bales of straw which I took out to the garden.  I am making a large area covered with leaves, grass clippings, and corn stalks, which I will plant in the mulch and drip irrigate it.

Using the blower, I blew the leaves into a large pile.  It took three tarp loads  to move it out to the mulch garden.  I covered the corn stalks and other plant material with leaves.

I blew the leaves on the west side of the sidewalk across the driveway onto the other lawn and then out to the garden..

The pole bean hoop was covered with dead bean plants.  They need to be remove before a heavy snow would collapse the hoop.  I worked on that for over an hour.  The dead bean plants are gone.

I cut the fountain grass and put in the compost pile.


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Company From Linden

Carol's sister, Nyleen, called yesterday telling us that her and Miles would be seeing us.  He gives me my hair cut.  I started to pull beets for the "share the harvest."  Carol told me that it was time to come in and put on some clean clothes. I stopped and got ready.  They were there soon after.

We drove to Fillmore and decided to eat at Costa Veda.  There was a parking stall next to the front door.  I went to the door and gave it a tug.  It was locked.  There were people that tried the other door.  I looked in through the window; the was not a person in there.

I picked a bunch of beet greens.  I have pulled most of the beets in the raised bed.  I washed them and made around ten bunches.  

The photo above is of the tote that I took to the post office.

We then went back into town and ate at Cluff's   The food was good.  We set at a outside table.  The weather is cool, but pleasant.   We came back home and had a short visit.  I got them a few veggies from the greenhouses.  They then drove back to Linden.

I pulled most of the cucumber plants in house six.  There were a lot of cucumbers on the ground.

I put them on a large compost pile west of house six.

A lot of the cucumbers were still attached when I put them on the compost pile.

I planted a row of radishes then a row of beets, and then a row radishes and then another row of beets. They are planted on the south end of the raised bed.  I pulled out the beets.

This shows the rows after watering.

Lastly I planted the six packs with two corn kernels in each of the eighteen cells.



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Cool, Frost Free

Last night I picked tomatoes in house six.  I turned off the furnace and wanted pick incase it would freeze.  We it was frost free,

Before we went to Fillmore, we took the tomatoes to the post office.  Carol needed to get some birthday cards.  We then came home.  We were gone less than any hour.  As soon as we got home I began harvesting beets, beet greens, and cucumbers.

This is the second box that I took to the post office.  It is a partial CSA box.

After lunch I started plans for the patio.  There will be a 3 x 7 foot deck out of the south door.  There will be railings and three steps to the concrete patio.  I hope to have it built by the middle of November.

I watched a bunch of You Tube videos on deck construction and got some good ideas of how to build it.

I removed some tomato plants in house six.

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