5 Acres & A Dream: Garden Notes: September 2023

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September harvest bucket

Rainfall 

  • eighth: 0.01″
  • tenth: 0.59″
  • eleventh: 0.04″
  • twelfth: 0.06″
  • thirteenth: 1.43″
  • seventeenth: 0.56″
  • Whole up to now: 2.69 inches

Temperature

  • vary of nighttime lows: 53 to 70°F (11.7 to 21°C)
  • vary of daytime highs: 77 to 92°F (25 to 33°C)

Climate Notes

Nothing noteworthy, simply the welcome September slide of the temps from scorching to snug. We might use slightly extra rain.

Planted:

  • lettuce
  • kale
  • Brussels sprouts
  • Chinese language cabbage
  • carrots
  • arugula
  • turnips
  • beets
  • radishes
  • Chinese language broccoli
  • sugar beets
  • bloody dock
  • garlic
  • multiplier onions

Harvesting:

  • inexperienced beans
  • okra
  • slicing tomatoes
  • cherry tomatoes
  • Swiss chard
  • bell peppers
  • daikon leaves
  • kale
  • collard greens
  • final of the pears
  • pink raspberries
  • muscadines
  • yam berries
  • watermelon
  • pecans

In addition to planting, my gardening exercise is selecting each different morning. Most issues have slowed down, however a number of are nonetheless producing effectively.

The inexperienced beans have responded to the cooler climate by stepping up manufacturing. That is welcome since I wasn’t capable of do a second planting this yr, which I had deliberate to replenish the canned inexperienced beans in my pantry. We notably like Green Bean Caesar as a facet dish in winter, so I prefer to preserve them round. Whereas I did not get a big harvest, I used to be capable of do some small batch canning. Each jar helps! We’re definitely having fun with them recent.
Steamed inexperienced beans and yam berries. Tasty!

Any leftovers are good in salads with cherry tomatoes and
inexperienced pepper. The dressing is my do-it-yourself Ricotta Ranch.

This is one thing I’ve by no means made earlier than, pear fruit leather-based.

I do not make fruit leather-based as a result of we do not eat it, however I had a final gallon of pear sauce that I needed to dehydrate for powdered pear sauce that I had an issue with. The issue was that it would not dry out to a crispy sufficient state so I might pop it within the blender and powder it! After about 4 days of working my Excalibur, it was nonetheless gentle. I hate to say it, however this may occasionally sign the tip of that previous meals dryer. I firmed it up a bit extra in a really low oven, minimize it into strips, and rolled up in waxed paper. The jars had been then vacuum sealed for good measure. In order that was the final of the pears.

I made a decision to make use of my sole pint of frozen summer season strawberries to make an ice cream pie. Ice cream is a summer season deal with, so I needed to get an ice cream pie in earlier than the temps dropped an excessive amount of!

Strawberry ice cream pie with graham cracker crust.

It is such a stunning pink when the colour is pure. 

That is about it for me. How’s everybody else’s backyard doing? Carried out for the summer season? Fall backyard rising? Prepared for a gardening break?

Parting Shot

Orb Weaver and egg sac

The following era of backyard helpers is tucked away below the eve of the entrance porch.

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