October Garden

Planting Garlic! I planted over 300 bulbs of garlic in 3 different beds. the bed sizes 3.5x7, 3.5x9, and 4x12. I am really looking forward to the garlic next year. This year i screwed it up... i watered it too much! Apparently garlic likes a dry-er soil... So i will work on that for next year. We have already mulched it for the winter, too... Although even though it is November, it is still quite warm out... as in 40s at night and 60s in the day! Crazy!

These are the purple potatoes that we grew. The flavor and color were beautiful, as well as the texture is very nice, dense and doesn't fall apart when you cook them. But the yield was disappointing for me. I don't think i will grow them again next year, mostly because of yield. We even made mashed potatoes with them a couple times... they are a pretty lavender color after they are boiled and mashed. The water that they boil in turns a dark green as they cook! So funny!
So we had to harvest our sweet potatoes earlier than we thought, because we had a really hard frost... and even though they were covered in their little greenhouse plastic... The tops turned brown... so we had to take them out... Unfortunately we didn't get a lot... It was such a cool summer! They need hot weather!! Next year, i am going to start my own plants and get them in earlier and leave them covered until it is nice and hot! This year it didn't get hot until the middle of August and then it only lasted 2 weeks, MAYBE! Aren't they soooo pretty though!?





This is how i peel apples, for making the applesauce. We canned 50-some quarts. We use the apple peeler-corer-slicer from pampered chef and we hook the drill up to it, so it goes so fast! Jerry is the best peeler though... i am more timid about zinging the apples thru... the juice flies every where! so we do it out in the garage.