Daily sweetness. Marmalade Cat (to be – still Marmalade Kitten really) and Boo-Nanny. Not enough yet? Let’s have a double wammy.
The Marmalade kitten creeping up on Boo Nanny. The most obvious ambush in the world.
Wee kittys .. um..toilet is becoming more normal so we are going outside three or four times a day now. This time Mean Miss C insisted that the baby should do the stairs without BooNannys help. It is character building.
Marmalade Cat was deeply unimpressed.
And just for the record Egoli is here to tell you that he is doing just fine as well and is the best hunter.. ever. He even leaves dead mice outside the pigs pen!
I have laid my walnuts on the drive, so the cars and trucks can run over them. Thank you for this trick. And I am excited with the results! Stage one! Tick!
The Duke of Kupa checking to see if the coast is clear.
Not clear.
Meadow. Meadow is a good little sheep.
Tilly is still at the loud squawking tween stage.
Between last night and the night before all the tomatoes are stone cold dead, and the ones in the hoop house are following fast. Ah well, it was worth a crack, Trev. But all the greens in the little make-shift green house are still going strong. As is the lettuce.
Not so the eggplant though. Dead as a door nail.
I am not showing long pics of the big gardens, there is a lot of tidying up to do yet.
I hope you all have a wonderful day. So much day ahead of us!
Love your friend,
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
63 responses to “Vegetable garden gone. Frost. Blink. Frost. Gone.”
salvage all you can and till under the rest for more goodness next year. Soon you can take just a wee bit of a rest now and then
I tilled never till under my tomato plants and other things I grow. But by all means salvage all you can! 😉
The reason I don’t till it all under is because of insects and spreading diseases if you have them. Insect problems you may have had in your garden will carry over to next year. They breed and lay their eggs in the stems and roots of plants. I always take up all my plants and burn them. And I always rotate my crops! Helps prevent disease.
I am always careful. Too much work goes into my gardens. 😉
Ready for a nice long winter’s rest here too! For sure!
Ooopsie! I never till under my tomato plants…fixed it above! 🙂
I didn’t mean to sound so know it all…nutsfortreasure! …sorry…I made this mistake when I first started to grow veggies out here and my hubby took me in hand! Thank Heavens! 🙂
I had green spotted summer squash!!! And one time I dug my potatoes so deep my father-in-law asked if I was planting them in China!!!! LOL I had to dig them all up and replant everyone of them!!! And there were about 50+ of them! What a job!!! Uffda! (((hugs)))
Yes if you have an infestation or blight those should be bagged and tossed at the dump. I grow organically and worst pest I have had is grub in soil/Japanese beetle and I pick them off and destroy. This time I gathered all my plants that were done removed them all and will add lots of my homemade compost and let it breakdown more into the soil and then I will shut the whole garden area down for 2 seasons hurting too bad so I will grow what I want in containers where I can sit in a chair and harvest or weed 🙂 Thanks for adding that I just forgot not everyone knows what is going on in their garden area 🙂
Everything I know about farming, (including the grain market) gardening, canning, dehydrating, hunting, livestock, and butchering…I learned out here from my 92 and 86 year old in-laws, hubby and my 80 year old neighbor on the closest farm to us! I was so green! I was very entertaining til I caught on though! LOL Only grew plants on my deck and bought from the farmer’s market! If you asked me anything to do about life on the saltwater I could tell you! I do it all now!!!! 😉 I can all I grow, dehydrate my own herbs and teas, combine, drive grain trucks, unload them and drive them into the shops without taking doors or walls down! 😀
The only thing I won’t do! Is climb those grain bins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
(((hugs))) Have a great day my friend! Feel better!
That is too funny good for you! Me being a semi driver for too many years know what you mean and yes those areas can be very dangerous 🙂
Life is a lesson for us to learn and share I am glad to hear from you as well
Thanks for the get well wishes I am a old tough broad with a huge heart so God will continue to be good to me 🙂 thankfully!
I can can and hang plants upside down 🙂
This is a much work as planting….the cleaning up of the garden for next year.
Linda
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Give Marmalade kitten a couple of weeks and it will be one bound or two, to reach the top of the steps! We had a touch of the frost this morning. It was followed by some bright sunshine.
We had a very light snowfall the other day in Chicago. This cold weather came on fast!
it did.. all of a sudden i am looking for gloves..c
Marmie’s eyes and nose look a little goopy, is he out of the danger zone yet?
My other odd question – do the pigs eat the dead mice?
I don’t think he is is perfect health quite yet, his chest is still rattly, and yes I have to clean his eyes every day still, but he is much better and still taking his medicine.. and OH yes the pigs will eat mice, they are omnivores and love their protein.. c
Cecilia, We’ve been processing our walnuts on the drive for a 4 or 5 years now. We make the pile as tall as possible so that there is as much friction as possible when the wheels go over. Then you’ve got to rake them up on top of each other every few days. After a week or two like this we pick them up and put them in an old chicken cage that has pretty strong and small welded wire and then we leave that cage setting out on the south side of the house. And we crack the walnuts in logs where we’ve chissled out little divits for the walnuts to sit in and we use a hammer to do the cracking. And we have a nail in a good spot to get out the chuncks that don’t come out without poking. I’ll try to take pictures and post on my blog later but right now our red wagon is still sitting out under the black walnuts waiting for somebody to finish picking them up…. best to you hope you didn’t get too much of this cold rain we got in Indiana today.
Excellent, thank you! I need to get out there and collect more from the other farm! When you do blog about it make sure to let me know as I would hate to miss it! Thank you again.. c
I was fortunate enough to get about a half a dozen tomatoes out of the greenhouse yesterday. There are only two green ones left, so I won’t hold it against them if they don’t ripen now. 😀
That’s what I do. Or I just make fried green tomatoes! I sure am going to miss them! Yum!
There’s a lot to love here, Celi! I cannot get enough of the blue dog and the orange kitten. More please. Love the idea of car-crushed walnuts. Love the BIG orange cat on the cold frame (the colonials utilized cold frame gardening quite a bit-can’t resist a little history). I do not love the fact that your vegetables were frozen, however.
I would love you NOT to resist giving me the history! (bad sentence structure I know but it is late.. well 8.30pm. late for me) .. I love the history.. c
Shame about the frost, but it does good things to the winter veggies! Little Marmalade cat is doing so well and I love the walnuts 🙂
That’s a fast flash freeze. The little warm frames look wonderful. Find those gloves…
Little Marmalade is such a trooper. Exercise keeps them happy and strong. Gotta love that Nanny Boo – such experessions
What a lovely post! Talking about Marmalade being a ham actor ~ the pleading looks he manages to put on!!!!! It’s OK, Boo . . . he’ll grow out of it! Good to see Egoli and all the other farmy folk . . .yes, sad to see end of season for the vegetables but you should have quite a bit preserved for the winter. Seem to remember your curtain was supposed to come down also . . . ?
Not dry enough evidently! still it will come down eventually.. c
Tell us ~ and photos, please 🙂 !
Oh I will.. for sure.. c
aw, man. i miss those illinois days of driving over walnuts.
love seeing little marmalade’s antics….
I love sneaky kittens. That is the best stage! I’m surprised the little tyke made all the steps! Determined to get to Boo Nanny, no doubt. Meadow is looking lovely, and Kupa is handsome as ever.
Had to go to town today and did not get the CUTENESS until I got home this afternoon. Awwwww Bo Nanny and Marmalade…wish I could hug them both. Little kitties get eye infections a lot…some kind of virus. Eye ointment from vet always works. Lots of exercise and protein and he will grow and thrive. Love your sheep and His Highness, too. Sorry about your veggies…our frost killed everything weeks ago. Would rather plant than clean up. (sigh). What a wonderful idea with the walnuts. Keep the CUTENESS coming!
He has the meds, but is taking his time catching up, I think he needs more outside time, pity it is getting so cold, but he is a cat and loves to be out there.. c