popular What have you done today in the Garden?

Finished the standpipe today, just got the rest of the stumps to burn out now

 

No super duper front end loaders here. My goodness, that's some serious equipment, @Pacnorwest!

Today I hand -raked some linden and maple leaves. Left them in piles to transfer to the garden tomorrow or friday.

I planted the final two rows of garlic. This is in the "overflow" garden that doesn't have irrigation, but the hot season for garlic is pretty brief. I covered them with a thick mulch of aged leaves.



My experience now is that the leaf mulch will last into summer, preventing weeds and evening the soil moisture.

I roasted a pumpkin from the garden, pureed its flesh, and made a keto pumpkin pie. The crust is almond meal, and the sweetener is monk fruit. It used cream instead of condensed milk.







It's a little different, but pretty good and the first pie I've had in 18 months. Minimal effect on blood sugar so far, but it has only been 20 minutes. I bet it will be even better when fully chilled.

Next time I might try coconut milk instead of the cream.

All of the seeds that I ordered for next year have arrived.



It looks like a lot, and I guess it is. The tomatoes will be one plant per variety, so I expect those packets to last several years. Sorry the names on the packets don't show well with the medium picture resolution.

 

Daniel you have been buzy. Lots of seeds to plant how nice to see your planning ahead. Beautiful pumpkin pie and the blood sugar level remains good too. I’m vixen to make sweet potato pie next week . Another way to keep blood sugar level low.

Zigs sending smoke signals ‘Be Safe’ , your way. Nice job .


Today didn’t do much other than mowing and clipped several long low hanging branches off the ornamental weeping cherry tree . Used the telescopic battery op pruner. Took the clippings out to the burn pile for @Zigs to burn whenever he gets around to it.