Today's post features a moderately adequate representation of a bad photo with bad kitchen lighting and a very nice fall garden harvest. :)
Allow me to introduce you to this afternoon's random late season garden haul. I took Philip to the soccer field by my community vegetable garden to try a Chuck it with him for the first time.
A Chuck it is a 16" long bionic arm that both throws and grabs a gobby dog ball. I'm a new fan.
Half an hour and one pair of pollen covered running shoes later we headed into my garden to get a drink and have a look around.
Cabbage soup is getting made this weekend to freeze for the winter so I harvested some of my cabbages. The swiss chard that had been decimated for the first 3 months of its life is finally growing great flags of greens.
2 of about 10 peppers were red and ready to pick, I grabbed the last of the dry beans, a few mini luffas, some powdery zucchini and carrots.
The same carrots I planted out on August 5th. If you take a look at this August gardening post you can see the size they were 54 days ago. I never thought they would turn out so well.
Sure, some of them are wiggly because I wasn't exact about making sure they weren't tied in a knot before I shoved them in the ground. No big whoop.
The beets are also growing right alongside the carrots, but they're a little behind in the race.
if you look at the photo below on the left you can see how the front half of this bed is doing really well but the back half of it the plants are half the size.
My guess is, if I checked last year's garden plan I would have planted something that sucked the lift out of the soil in that block there last year.
I know you like to know what movie I'm watching when I write these weekend posts. Tonight's film is Netflix's Will & Harper.
And now for the wildlife I saw while picking my late fall harvest. This is turning into an incredibly unstructured random sort of post.
As I was picking the red peppers I noticed something land on a fencepost just to the right of me. I noticed it because it was a hawk the size of a Costco tire bay.
Now for the surprise - a puzzle for the first time in ages because I felt like giving you a little surprise but didn't want to have to leave the sofa. The bad news is, it's the bad photo that I turned into the puzzle.
You're welcome.
Have a good remainder of your weekend. If you're interested, to make my cabbage soup I also made a batch of beef broth from bones today.
Randy P
Fun puzzle as always and I AM a fan of 'almost' every vegetable you mentioned - except of course for them there dirt tasting beet thingies. Yuck. lol That ball thrower looks like a very clever gizmo. And thanks for sharing the randomness on this cloudy Saturday eve.