Well, I dug up my potatoes 🥔
Bought a small seed bag, cut and put in layers into three 30 gallon grow bags.
The dirt remained soft and fluffy all the way to about the last 3-5in at the base, then it was more compact with no taters.
Will add rabbit manure and then they'll be ready for new...
Man, I learned about fridge pickles near the end of making a ton of WB pickles, and I swore off water bath canning them! 1.5 years and fridge pickles are crisp and perfect.
I think I might try making flakes sooner than trying to can them. But we'll see.
Well....yeah. idk what to do....
First floor-
Laundry room/mudroom, AC vent closed off, door mostly closed. Too hot for storage, but fine for curing.
Crawlspace
4ft into the dirt on one side, zero on the opposite. Probably humid enough, but on a 65F morning, it is 61F inside.
no clue how...
Last year, my crawlspace failed as storage, many potatoes started to mold and rot, fast. I still have survivors in a drawer in my fridge! DH hates that.
Googled how to store them, yet again, and I really don't understand how a regular person in a modern house can create all of these...
Ugh, gotta dig out dirt to be able to fit in the irises....Was hoping it settled enough that I could just add on top.
Ordered some beefsteak tomato seeds and cotton seeds for next year!
Still waiting for plants to die back....Some did, but not enough of them.
Going to be 78F, supposedly. I'm thinking of just digging them up and moving today regardless. I don't want to be freezing while moving plants...
Was supposed to be 36F...Looks like it got to 27.9F instead!
Needless to say, tomato, pumpkin, most pepper, have wilted today.
Awful dental pain lately, so idk when I'll get to pulling and tossing the plants into compost.
Getting antsy about the hard freeze and playing musical plants. So, moved all of the potted plants to where they'll go into.
The escaped pink polka dot plant. Dug up and potted to be sold tomorrow.
To be planted in the ground.
Bought a 4" auger to get the smaller ones planted.
Hedges around the house fence to block wind.
Dappled willow along driveway in steep pasture.
Green giants gotta find spots to block the Airbnb neighbor.
Wild farm flowers possibly into Asian lily planters or gotta...
Probably the last of the garden. Frost coming tonight. If potato tops die back from it, I'll be digging those up.
I did cover the bellpepper plant to try and make it last a bit longer.
14 plants crammed into the house. 😵💫 I hate winter. We'll see how they do...
Technically, this is 6 plants...Trying to sell them off.
Tropical cutting hedge in my office.
Two types of black taro in my office. Tossed peacelily bits were discovered sprouting when reusing soil...potted. will...
Gladiolus
Stoneflower and other small ones will go into the set of 4 planters.
More iris! Got them super cheap.
Will mix them into here, the stone things and the wild farm flowers.
You can see how much dirt all of these planters need!!
The wild farm flowers I dug up! Got so lush and...
My autumn bulbs arrived. But they have to wait a bit longer!
I think I've decided to mix them in the planter along the fence mesh.(last picture, currently houses newest gladiolus bulbs.)
The wildflower planters will get all of the iris plants that are in the 3 planters at the front...