Greens | 365 Days of Me

This travel schedule I have been maintaining for work is really putting a damper on what I am getting done around the homestead lately, but thankfully the plants haven’t all give out yet. We should be getting our first frost any time now, but the extended forecast seems to indicate we have at least another week.

Speaking of plants not giving out, check out the blooms on the Pineapple Sage! This is really a late blooming plant, and it is said that if I were to pot this and bring it indoors, it would continue to bloom until Christmas. If you know me very well, you know I am strongly considering that.

Pineapple Sage Flower

Next look at this lettuce. One of the things I love about the cooler weather is the ability to grow good lettuce again. Unfortunately, I got this one started a little late. Even so, we should still be able to enjoy some of it before the cold kills it off for the winter.

Lettuce

Finally, I have an unidentified green. What that basically means is that I am too lazy to walk upstairs and read the seed packets. 🙂 It is some lettuce-like plant that is supposed to be good in salads though, and wow, it is growing like gangbusters!

Fresh Greens

The one thing I am a little regretful about is that I didn’t get the mini-greenhouse built over the lettuce garden for the winter. There may still be time, but it won’t happen this weekend, but perhaps next weekend I can get to it. The one year I did this, I had lettuce all winter, even when the temperatures outside were down in the teens. LOVED IT.

It has been a slow week around the homestead this week. As I have been saying for a few weeks, the summer garden is reaching the end of its life, and nothing is yet growing for the fall. In fact, I just put out some fall/winter crops this weekend.

I had really wanted to sow peas or some other legume for the fall to add some nitrogen back to my soil, but I waited to late to get that done this year. After that snafu, I made up my mind that I would just forego the fall/winter garden this year, but then I became inspired once again. Yeah, that happens often. 🙂

While it is too late for peas and other legumes, it is not too late for some other fall/winter veggies such as some greens, radishes, and carrots. I placed an order at Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, and I sowed what I had already. That means I sowed Kale and Mustard Seed, both of which I sowed very randomly by just throwing the seeds. I also sowed some radishes that way. I then put some White Icicle Radishes in one of the raised beds. and I did the same with some lettuce.

The funny thing is, much of what I sowed this weekend is not for my family, though we will eat of the lettuce and radishes. I don’t expect we will eat much Kale though, and I am sure we won’t eat the mustard greens. You might wonder why we grew them then. CHICKENS! Yep, it is cheap and healthy chicken food.

Sigh, the things I do for those egg-laying ladies. 😀

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