Yesterday was a very truncated day at the farm, but we still managed to get a good chunk of work done.
The tomatoes have been splitting like crazy with all the rain we’ve been getting, but we still managed to pick three buckets of good ones.
Ellie is such a good little tomato washer! We got them all washed and put in the freezer, so in a few months we will be able to get them all out and boil them down and sauce them.
Here it is, October and the peppers are finally producing! What a crazy state!
And pumpkins.
Lots and lots of pumpkins!
And some acorn squash, although those did not produce as well as the other winter squashes did.
It’s like being Cinderella, with a pumpkin coach and everything!
Off to the shop to set out the pumpkins to cure for a couple weeks before we put them in the basement.
The three on the bottom will be Jack-o-lanterns, while the ones on top of the table will be pies, cakes, soups, roasts, etc.
Look what Winnie found! A huge bottle!
Toward evening we cut down the corn, and ran the stalks through the chipper. We pulled the remaining ears off (there weren’t more than two well-formed ones, we had eaten all the rest), to dry out in the shop. Eventually we will feed them to the chickens. The leaves and shredded stalks we put on the compost pile. Incidentally, running green corn stalks through a stick chipper is not as easy as you might think. All the kids had to…
Chip in!
Should have taken a picture of that, but we were in a hurry, trying to get it all cleared up before guests arrived for Lord’s Day Dinner.
And that’s all for now. It will be a quiet blog for a couple of weeks because we are going to visit our family in Tennessee next week, but we will be back as soon as we can. Until then, God Bless!
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