We’ve had light frosts, but tonight will be our first hard freeze. We spent some time in the garden this week harvesting mixed greens, broccoli, cauliflower and sweet potatoes. 80 lbs. of mostly Okinawan sweet potatoes. They are white skinned with purple flesh, and are a bit firmer than Beauregard sweet potatoes (also pictured) Our […]
Sarah and I are enjoying our Thanksgiving Holiday alone at our house this year due to a rise in Covid-19 cases. Sarah’s school has gone back to all virtual classes just recently for an unknown period of time. The hospitals in Tennessee are straining to handle all the influx in cases. We couldn’t fit our
We had seed shortages this past Spring due to Covid-19. Local and mail order seed suppliers both had slim inventory. This Fall Sarah joined some seed swapping Facebook groups and has been having good results finding many of the seeds we will need in the Spring. We even found Jerusalem Artichoke (sunchokes) tubers that we
We just had our first frost. We harvested all of our remaining basil, eggplant, tomatoes, peppers and some herbs in preparation for our first frost. Sarah made our pesto recipe with all of the basil. I have some kind of reaction to pine nuts and they change my tastebuds so that sweet tastes bitter for