What have you done today in the Garden?

That raised bed garden looks quite nice and tidy, Donna.

 

Yeah Toni, tell that "wonderful" to my hens! They ran outside for a few seconds then decided to spend the day inside watching football (they love to see a pig's skin kicked around).
We have rain again. I'm never going to get the vegetable gardens cleaned out in time to plant this spring unless I get a pontoon boat. I hope you aren't affected by the flooding in the DFW area. The photos we are seeing are truly awful.

 

Picked green Amish Paste tomatoes this morning. I'd leave them to ripen on the vine, but I fear our nighttime temperatures might damage them, so into the laundry room to get nice and red. We may have home grown tomatoes for Christmas dinner (we usually do).

 

'twas a dry day today and so I was on the bike out to the lottie.
I managed to remove some dead stems from the flower garden and placed them on veggie beds for the winter. I planted more tulip bulbs and put down more wire mesh to protect them. I fed the birds, but no Pileated Woodpecker came. What a disappointment.
I also dug up the ginger plant to put the root to bed for the winter.

 

we harvested venison. I have 60#'s of meat in the freezer now.

 

Harvested another venison... whoo whee! The freezer is stuffed for now. I bought and canned 30#'s of chicken today, too. and I gathered 6 eggs. You go girls... all 70 of you! lazy layers!

 

Tuesday was interesting---husband made another run to a big box store to get mulch for our path from the house to the workshop. The bags he picked up yesterday did about half the path. I mowed around the barn and dumped the grass clippings into the outside coop, so the ladies have been doing their Martha Stewart thing, rearranging the leaves and grass.
I tried to prune a couple of our wafer ashes, but couldn't really decide what needed to come off and what needed to stay. I'll be thinking about this for a while.
We did have three more Lady Hillington roses to bring in and make a bouquet for the dining room. I love having fresh roses in early December!

 

I fed and watched the birds. The ground was soppy-wet, so no work.

 

I had a farmers market, Our "Winter Market". The last one of the year. I wish I would have had an inkling what the weather would have been like as I would have worked a little harder at keeping what I had growing for greenhouse and tunnel crops and growing Fall root crops. The weather was so nice we could have done it outside, but we didn't. we kept it inside like normal. I baked all day thursday and Friday getting ready for it. We had a great day and I was thankful for that. tomorrow my cabinets are supposed to be here. So, another busy week for me, I think. I am helping to set the cabinets and be the "do what he tells me" helper. His one helper went on vacation and the other one is terminally ill, now. So sad, he was the kindest and sweetest of men.

 

I weeded my flower beds. Weeds are loving these warm temps. I still have parsnips and horseradish to dig if it ever gets cold enough. Some of my parsnips have gone to seed.

 

Went to the garden again today...but still too wet. The birds were happy to see me though. I took up the ginger root and will let it dry out until next spring. I forgot to take up the Mirabilis root. uh-oh. Perhaps tomorrow.

---Carolyn I am sorry to hear that your family member is not improving. My heart goes out to you.