My intern was out here on Wednesday and worked her butt off and finished the mulching of the garlic. What a lovely job! It’s sort of embarrassing when the student does a better job than the teacher….
While she was doing that I was emptying the trash shed of nearly a year’s worth of recycling. She helped me break down all the boxes and we got the whole mess in the truck and took it to the dump. Whew! What a job, but I’m glad it’s behind me.
My husband and I usually go on October 1 to pick out pumpkins, if I haven’t grown any that year. But this year, he was in bed and it never happened. When my friend took me to pick up the 25# of broccoli on Sunday, just a couple hours before we learned the bad news, I selected enough pumpkins of all kinds for the steps.
Top step is New England cheese, I think. Not sure what the mottled ones are.
I had the little pumpkins that grew in the compost this year. So I got a couple of midsize ones too, along with the white ones. I never did get my autumn wreaths and decorations up. Oh, well, next year…
On Thanksgiving, I start feeding these to the chickens, as they will have been frozen and won’t store. The seeds help prevent intestinal worms. Plus it gives them something to pick at besides each other…