Rainfall
- Fifth-Sixth: 0.25″
- Tenth-Eleventh: 1.8″ (Nicole)
- fifteenth: 0.7″
- twenty fifth: 0.05″
- twenty seventh: 0.75″
- Complete up to now: 3.55 inches
Temperature
- vary of nighttime lows: 28-66°F (-2-19°C)
- vary of daytime excessive: 44-80°F (7-26.6°C)
Climate Notes:
- It is flannel mattress sheet climate!
- My backyard work schedule has modified, now, to doing indoor work within the morning and outside work within the afternoon.
Harvesting and consuming
Though October’s frost killed off the summer time backyard, the cherry tomatoes and pole beans rising on the porch trellis survived. I reckon that is as a result of they’re considerably protected by the eaves of the entrance porch. They prolonged our summer time harvest for about three extra weeks and had been very welcome!
| summer time backyard remnants on the entrance porch trellis |
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| cherry tomatoes, recent pole beans, and a few dry for seed |
Of the autumn backyard, we’re getting daikons and greens to go together with the final of these cherry tomatoes.
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| November salad: cherry tomatoes, feta cheese, and greens (kale, collards, chickweed, dandelion, turnip, and daikon) |
I added them to the others within the freezer. Someday this winter I will make raspberry jelly. After the exhausting freeze, I in the reduction of the canes for higher manufacturing subsequent 12 months.
The opposite factor I harvested was buckwheat.
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| Largely seed, however leaves and stems too. |
It grew as a part of a canopy crop combine Dan planted for soil constructing. Most of it is going to be for seed, however I will see about processing some too, for groats and flour.
I am nonetheless engaged on final summer time’s wheat.
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| Winnowing wheat with a field fan. |
Last year we got the wheat done in July, however this 12 months July was flooded with figs, pears, and tomatoes, so I did not have time then. Dan acquired a lot of the threshing accomplished, so I am winnowing as we want flour.
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| Hen winnowing clean-up crew |
Of the inexperienced slicing tomatoes I picked earlier than the frost, we ate the final one proper earlier than Thanksgiving.
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| There’s nothing like homegrown tomatoes |
Rising
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| Wheat patch |
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| Backyard mattress with lettuce, kale, and garlic. The cattle panel is to maintain critters from digging! |
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| Backyard mattress of daikons. |
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| African keyhole backyard with varied younger greens. |
Planting
It is actually too late to plant, however I poked a bunch of fava beans into the garden swale berm and sprinkled the naked spots within the hugelkultur with turnip seeds. Probably, they’re going to be an early spring crop.
Parting Shot
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| Our blueberry bush in late autumn shade. |
I reckon that is it for my November 2022 backyard notes. How about you?
