As I’m sure you understand, the weeks are flying by. The weather here in New England this fall has been insanely beautiful, and it’s a testament to our dysfunction around weather that when it’s picture perfect, we can’t deal and go a little crazy. We’re all walking around here in a daze, smiling vacantly and thinking we’ve lost touch with reality, but we’re also kinda digging it.
So I will blame the weather for my lack of posting, luring me outside away from my computer.
In early October, I did the near final harvest. It was an odd gardening year, with delayed seedlings, neighbors interruptus, and tomatoes which teased me by getting lots of flowers and green tomatoes early, then laughing in my face and never turning red. Ha, well, I have the last laugh you little green bahstids—how do you like being in a brown paper bag? You’re turning red now, aren’t you? Forget YouTube and TikTok, here’s my advice: never turn your back on the tomatoes.
My main gardening triumph was that for the first time, since growing sweet potatoes for the past 5 or 6 years, I finally grew one precious, gorgeous, real-sized sweet potato! I usually end up with fingerlings, which I appreciate and eat as if they were big, so they don’t feel self-conscious. But oh, this one was right out of central casting, if Hollywood were in the gardening business. Gird your loins, cuz I’m gonna be talking about that potato for years.
And I managed to harvest 3 butternut squash, which will become soup very soon.
But enough of my rambling. Here is the bounty from the gahden. Part 2 is coming next week!
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