Dealing With All The Bounty From the Garden

     While out long snowy winters offer us a lot of free time, getting to that point in the fall means a lot of scrambling around trying to get everything done, before the winter hits.  A lot of those tasks now on the docket have to do with the garden.  Before the killing frost I have to harvest what I can, and then deal with it.  I have picked all of the tomatoes and chilis in the greenhouse, and they are now sitting in the kitchen waiting to ripen, or be packed and frozen.

    I have already dug four rows of potatoes and have the spuds temporarily stored on the floor of my shop.  I still have three more rows of potatoes to dig.  Hopefully I will get one of them dug this afternoon.  The photo shows all of the produce I have stored and drying in a corner of my office.  When I get time I have to de-pod all of the different beans.   I will save some of the beans for planting next year and the rest we will probably end up in soup.

    I really don’t know what to expect when I shuck those ears of corn.  I planted two varieties of corn, types I had never grown before.  One was “black corn”,   Once my parents grew some black corn that could be popped, but I am not sure about the black corn I planted.  One of the corn varieties I planted was a complete failure, and I am not sure yet which variety survived.  I will find out once I get around to shucking it.  If it isn’t black popcorn it will end up as a fall decoration.

    This is Canada’s Thanksgiving Weekend.  Later today we will celebrate with a turkey dinner.  I hope I will not be too crippled up after digging the row of potatoes.

    

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