Garden harvest

Well, we had our first frost here this weekend, killed off the tomato plants and the cucumbers. Time to gather the rest of the surface stuff.

Zucchini: 4kg of zucchini here, will soon be processed into bread / muffins

Beans: Wax beans 4kg of beans have been processed, frozen for winter use. Frozen in containers of 100g or 200g serving sizes.

Peaches: 20lbs of peaches canned put up 9 quart jars at local stores that's about $50 worth of peaches that I don't have to buy this winter, aiming for more next year

Potatoes: harvested one full row of the 6 in the garden, steaming many of them to mash and freeze, also making potato salad, and multiple stews, veggie, beef, chicken, turkey, rabbit. Make em now freeze em for later use.

Beets: one beet over 600g itself, and there were numerous of them, harvested a milk-crate size container of them, pickling to follow. Maybe some juicing.

Parsnip: Apparently didn't thin these enough many are darn stringy but will be usable

Carrots: Again didn't think them enough, they'll work in soups and the like

Turnip: some nice results here, only picked a couple here, in ground they'll keep a while.

Rhubarb: plants came in, half of them took, not bad first year growth, we'll get a good take next year

Raspberries: most of the plants took, I think only 4 didn't oh and the 5th succumbed to being trampled on by everyone who set foot in the garden and stepped around the much bigger second one in the row... No berries this year but they are very healthy looking growth, should be good next year.

Onsite updates

Fencing: allow more time than you think because your livestock will show you the weaknesses in due time. Calf got out by walking up to a slightly wide gap between barb wire strands and stepped right out... pigs also got out of their lower pen and rooted up an area until we realized they were out. Good to know that secondary area is well fenced though so they were contained.

Power: well prepared for a power outage now, got the generator up and running, settled in a convenient, accessible spot, will only run long enough to keep the freezer contents frozen as needed, so what once every 24 hours? Also accessed to a propane stove for cooking, is a relief as the camp stove only connects to 1lb propane canisters which can't be refilled here. $5 / lb... makes the 20lb canisters better just can't use them 20lbs for $15 or $100 to get the same 1lb at a time. Now well prepared for a prolonged power outage, but it's gone out overnight only once in almost a year in this area.

Keep well