Yesterday I harvested all of the celery, washed it, cut off the tops and chopped and froze those. I wrapped the rest of the bundles of celery in a large dish towel and slid into a plastic bag. It's all waiting for me in the fridge to deal with the rest (or use) at a later date.
I also picked the last of the rhubarb and washed it.
The celery was in the bed where I had wanted to plant 2026's garlic. So this morning I worked that bed and added compost. Then I planted 130 cloves of garlic. Another thing scratched off my list!
And this afternoon I pruned the fig tree a little more and harvested all of the unripe figs from those branches. I brought the figs inside and made 2 more quarts of sweetened, spiced unripe figs, my last preserving work of unripe figs for the year!
While I waited through the various stages of preserving unripe figs, I used the rhubarb, along with some apples, to make a rhubarb-apple cobbler for tonight's dessert.
Tomorrow I will dig the rest of the carrots, cut off the leafy tops and wash those. Then I'll chop most of the carrot greens and freeze for adding to soups this winter. I'll leave some carrot leaves in the fridge to use in salads this fall.
That will leave the second half of the crabapples (make sauce, jelly, and juice from them), all the turnips, all the beets, one last head of cabbage, and what's left of the Swiss chard for my harvest list.
I can do this!
Have a wonderful weekend, friends!
The end is in sight! You Can do this. What's your next big project when the gardening is done for a little while? Or are you going to enjoy some simple days?
ReplyDeleteI'm mostly thinking about your rhubarb/apple cobbler. I'm planning on making an apple pie today--we're celebrating my daughter's birthday a little early (while she's home for mid-term break) and she agreed to a pie instead of cake.
ReplyDeleteGood work on getting things done.