Happy Harvest Blog
Serious frost
We got a proper frost last night. I ate a tomato and it had ice crystals in it (unpleasantly cold first thing in the morning), so lots of tomatoes are frozen on the vine in the greenhouse. I think the cucumber and melon vines are finished too. The basil is finished. I worked all day yesterday to prepare for the frost, so it wasn't a surprise, except I thought the basil would be ok. Mom, it's cold! She's in her full polar bear.
Gatekeeper
Almost every day these days, the gate is decorated. There's a chipmunk that thinks the gate is the best snack spot ever, and he leaves multiple partially chewed apples balancing on the edge of the boards that make the swinging gate, or on top of the post that anchors it.
The apple flow is on
Every day, the first apple tree is dropping five gallons of apples. Dropping. That's a fraction of how many are staying on the tree.
It's Apple Time!
The apples are coming! One of the big, old, stately ancient apple trees by the old farmhouse is loaded with fruit, weighing the branches down to the ground. I picked up about 5 gallons of apples just off the ground, lobbing many of them directly into the pig compound. Oink, oink. Happy pigs.
Tree tagging
I numbered all the fruit trees, and tagged them all with numbers I cut out of yogourt tubs and lids. This is so that I can keep notes about health, pruning, fruit, etc, variety! when we figure out what the heck any of them are...
Instagram.
I may not make a blog post every day, but at least I Insta.
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