Harvest Time?

There was one last project hanging around the garden that just had to be taken care of...the harvesting of the Yukon Gold potatoes:

 

We put out a tarp and lifted and tipped over the container onto it:

 

We carefully went through the soil on the tarp and forked through the hole in the ground.  All the soil from the containers went into two garbage cans with covers for the winter:

 

I took some time to go around and gather up the tomatoes still on the vine.  We had one of the Brandywines on our salad tonight, but it was barely a step above a supermarket tomato:

 

The full harvest, well minus two tomatoes that we brought inside.  The potatoes on the right are from the right-hand container above, the left from the left-hand one.  I think maybe it wasn't sunny enough where we had them, so we're planning a sunnier spot next year:

  

I did enjoy getting my hands (well my gloves) into some potting soil again.  That lemon grass really needed to be potted up or it definitely wouldn't successfully overwinter in the fish container.  I was relieved when I pulled it out to fill the container with potting soil to see that it was sending new roots out:

 

I roughed up the roots and got it into the container and I'm quite pleased with the result:

 

Completely randomly the husky cherry tomato in the driveway is growing like mad and if the first frost holds off I think we'll get a bunch of tomatoes from it:

 

The first frost looks like it will hold off for at least the next 10 days, but there's no sign that the trees in our yard are going to drop their leaves any time soon.  We always end up out there in the freezing cold raking -- ugh: 

 

We finished up our projects for the day and headed back inside.  And Lee, love of my life, set out a snack:

 

We shared it and I headed off to a chick flick with some girlfriends.  I can't imagine a nicer Sunday.

Comments

[meemsnyc]

Nice harvest and yummy snack. I love that blue fish planter. So cute.

[Mummer]

Nothing I've found (fish-wise) so far, tops your blue fish planter! It's so cute!
How I miss raking leaves in New England - and jumping into the newly-gathered pile!