ED has been spinning and dying wool—this is some of her onion-skin-dyed yarn drying by the wood cookstove.
Oh, the Suspense!
This is the first nearly-open bloom on the morning glories this year. They made the most amazing vines—a huge, lush hedge on the garden fence—but they’ve only just now gotten around to flowers. Tonight’s forecast calls for patchy light frost. Will the first bud of the season open into a flower? Or will it be blackened into a melted, shapeless mass by the onslaught of incipient winter? Tune in tomorrow…
Cozy
We’re all enjoying the firewood these chilly days!
Special Delivery
Waiting for me in the mailbox—wonder how the mailman feels about that?
Seed Saving and Other Garden Stuff
Yesterday I received my potato onions in the mail, so I guess it’s really time to get a couple of beds ready in the garden. I also need to plant my garlic and some cilantro, and I may even try a few beets, though it’s a little late. There are a bazillion peppers out there that I need to harvest, both hot and sweet, so I guess I’ll freeze a bunch of the sweet ones. The hot peppers I’ll probably use to make red pepper flakes.
The most important thing in the garden right now is saving seed. I’ll be saving seeds from tomatoes, peppers, yellow squash, winter squash, okra, parsley, peas, watermelon, marigolds, calendula, morning glories, celosia…and a few other things I can’t remember right now!