I joked on FaceBook last night - “ Our dad-gum kitchen looks like a Produce Stand.”
Think I’m kidding?
Green beans have already come and gone - overloaded our chest freezer. Only this top layer consists of anything but green beans.
Tomatoes are trying to kick my butt right now. That's the top to a Rubbermaid Cake Carrier. This load here landed 15 pints tonight.
Our first jar of dried pole beans. I have about two more jars drying out on towels now - with ‘ beau coup ‘ more out there sunbathing.
These are from only three plants that I tried to dig under today.
I’ve begun stringing the Cayenne Peppers.
I’ve got a mess of sweet onions curing out on the front porch. Looks like I’ll be slicing those up for the dehydrator to make onion flakes.
They didn’t come out near as big as the ones I grew last year - and I was really disappointed. But then I made it over to our local Farmer’s market last week and found out I’m not alone. Several folks from around here had the same disappointment as me. Apparently - it was this crazy weather.
I can’t even get to the drawer full of Jalapenos. There’s a pile of carrots on top of that - and plenty more out in the garden that the two of us just cannot get to at this moment.
Dwayne did a wonderful job finishing up the painting on the Chicken coop. I did the rolling on both coats of the red. He did the cut work and all of the white trim.
That reminds me - For the White paint - We used Behr Premium Plus Exterior Semi-Gloss Ultimate White.
For the Red paint - Behr Premium Plus Exterior Semi-Gloss Base #5340 with the following color code:
CLRNT F KX L V
OZ 2 0 2 7
384th 0 88 148 148
I have no idea what all that means. I only know what it looks like. LOL But that’s how it’s labeled on the sticker.
Dwayne installed the interior wall and door yesterday - as well. I began mowing while he drove to Lenoir City to pick up an electric stapler before starting on that.
Today was a day filled with getting the poultry netting installed on the yard. Once we got that finished - I headed over to start digging up potatoes - while Dwayne began making hinges and a few other tidbits.
He’s making the little ramp tomorrow for the girls to walk up and down from the yard to inside. And we’ll be installing the protection barrier around the entire chicken coop and yard to keep predators away.
Well - I’ll help as much as I can after I get back from my doctor’s appointment.
And then it will be time to move the girls in to their new home!
And I don’t think they’ll be the least bit disappointed about that! They’re all trying to flex their wings - enough to jump out of their brooder. I’m messing with their heads by using some cardboard on each end of the brooder. But - I don’t think I’ll get another week out of that one.
As for me - I’m looking forward to that last and final deep cleaning of their area in the basement!
We’re hoping and praying to find an upright freezer before Dwayne goes back to work.
The harvesting and canning continues. I am gonna push things and use the pressure canner to can the potatoes. We have percentages of chance for rain all next week - so the temps should be tolerable.
And in between - there are the usual chores. I’m half tempted to ask my husband to just - put me a slide in for getting down to the basement. It would cut the torture on my knees in half.
Whoops. Time to get. That timer is about to go off on another run of tomatoes.
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Ohhh you are going to have a nice amount of produce for winter it sounds like! I'm hoping next year to do a little bigger garden. There have been so many times that we bought stuff and didn't have it do anything, that this year I didn't do as much...and it's the year that we actually did better at gardening. Go figure. LOL
Hopefully next year we can do MORE tomatoes and add some other things...just not sure what those other things will be yet. Course I want to move the main garden too, which may not work as well as I'd like it to...and use this years garden for perennials like Asparagus.
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