Dear friends,
 Large potatoes |  Nuala packing boxes |
My hands are cold and the fingers don't want to type after packing your boxes in the barn. We had a big frost Friday night, it went down to 13 Fahrenheit. In anticipation of that we spent last week picking all sensitive crops and got all the carrots, celeriac, fennel, potatoes and 1500lb cabbages harvested. Since there was snow and cold predicted for yesterday and today we picked the mixed greens, spinach and arugula and bock choy on Sunday and took Monday off.
You have a very full box due to the abundance of that harvest. I hope you can eat it or freeze some. We will have carrots for a while, winter squash are all gone. The ferny looking thing is fennel. I will attach some recipes for fennel and bock choy. The tomatoes are still ripening and the oranges and reds look so pretty, I took a picture.
You have a very full box due to the abundance of that harvest. I hope you can eat it or freeze some. We will have carrots for a while, winter squash are all gone. The ferny looking thing is fennel. I will attach some recipes for fennel and bock choy. The tomatoes are still ripening and the oranges and reds look so pretty, I took a picture.
 November tomatoes and peppers |  Fennel |
Saturday morning the well box in the barn greenhouse was frozen and the pressure switch was spraying water into the well box. There went the Saturday busy with plumbing. I don't know how many times this has to happen for me to learn to tightly close the well box when the first hard frost comes, not at the second one. Rob helped today to put a new sill into the greenhouse where the old one was rotten and cold air streaming in.
 Well box chaos plumbing |  Rob fixing the sill |
There is still more head lettuce in the high-tunnel for next week. I am not sue if the mixed greens made it through the past two nights because the caterpillar tunnel blew of in the high winds. It always blows down to one side in high winds and I let it go and don't fight it and put it back on after the wind. The large high -tunnel holds up just fine.
 lettuce still going |  spinach in the snow |
I am ready to let go of the last greens if that what it is. It has been a long and green season. Making room for the brown, white and grey of fall.
Andy and Nancy Molnar
On a sad note. Steve's father Andy Molnar died two weeks ago. We were able to visit him for a few days before and are so thankful for those last days and the years before. Due to the covid quarantine we are not able to visit his mom a lot and stay in touch by phone. We miss him.
I hope you are staying safe and warm. I had my first massage by Valerie Summer yesterday and are relaxed and still blissed out. Usually I get one every month during the season for body maintenance. Body and soul needed it. thank you Valerie!
Recipes for Bok Choy and Fennel attached.
Peace,
Dulli
I hope you are staying safe and warm. I had my first massage by Valerie Summer yesterday and are relaxed and still blissed out. Usually I get one every month during the season for body maintenance. Body and soul needed it. thank you Valerie!
Recipes for Bok Choy and Fennel attached.
Peace,
Dulli
| bok_choy.docx |
| fennel.docx |
