Tomatoes, potatoes, and apples

September has been gorgeous so far. We finally pulled in abut a third of the green tomatoes in the hope that the rest would ripen.  

Good volume this year, just way behind on ripening.

The potter harvest, on the other hand, was about a quarter of normal volume. I think it was all the rain in July and lack of sun.

We also harvested the apples last week as they were starting to fall in the wind.

Jess is big enough to do most of the ladder work, which is great.

So far, we've sauced, made crisps, and started dehydrating. My dehydrator looks like it is about to bite the dust so a new one may be in order.

Garage progress is, well, thin. After dozing and pouring the new pad at the end of August, nothing has happened for several weeks. I moved a bunch of sod out of the new garden bed and need to start moving plants. 

We're promised construction starts this week but I think we'll be too late to have a fence built this year.

Tomatoes, potatoes and apples

We've been enjoying some early harvesting the past two weeks. The tomatoes are starting to bear despite the wet summer and generally bad conditions for them.

I imagine we'll still have to harvest a bunch green and ripen them in the house.

We've also been culling carrots and beets and potatoes as we need them for dinner.

There might be one harvest of beans left. I've started working on moving one raspberry suckers to better places. The south side of the house is sunny but never seems to yield much produce (maybe too dry?) but the raspberries seem to be colonizing it. So I pulled a bunch of suckers out of a sunny bed and moved them there.

The garage construction has finally started with the demolition of the old garage and scraping out the footings of the new one. Not sure how far they are going to get before the snow flies.

In better news, the apples are ripening. These are not yet ready for eating (very tart). But it looks like a good crop.