Potager Palaver - Early September (recipes, greenhouse )

Palaver - chatter, parley, or chitchat

Here is my first palaver post about current goings-on in the potager and garden, with a wee bit about this and that thrown in for good measure.

Canning Round Up - We have finished the canning that we are going to do for hubby's rotation at home this time. We have made Fiesta Salsa, Canned Peaches, Louisiana Hot Sauce, Pasta Sauce, Green Tomato Chow-Chow, and Ketchup. The Salsa recipe is not yet on the blog, will work on it soonest. The sauce we have no recipe for, please find a trustworthy source for a recipe you like as tomato sauce making is very important to get right for safety.

Still on the list is lots of dehydrating... plums and garlic, at the very least.

Pears need to be picked so that they ripen nicely as leaving them on the tree will just have them rot from the inside out. Will then deydrate some of the pears, as well. Pears are my favourite of all the dried fruits... apples are good, apricots are good, plums/prunes are good, but pears are great : )

Thinking I still have about 100 lbs of tomatoes in the potager, so while I am happy for this rain, am also worried about blight coming on and hoping for a few days of heat to finish ripening off the last of them.

Hubby is currently tossing out all my hanging baskets and emptying the pots and planters. I am ready to move on to autumn, looking forward to a clean slate to start the new season.

The greenhouse is being emptied in preparation for bagging up your garlic when it arrives and set up for your safe and easy pick-ups. We are starting on the clean up today but will be doing the power washing later on, here is the how-to for how to winter prep your greenhouse.

Potting up tender plants to bring in to the greenhouse. Geraniums, eucalyptus, the citrus plants.

There will be a bit of garden clean up, if I have time, but that will be an ongoing task this month. As soon as something is harvested, the plant will be removed. To clean up your garden the no-dig way, you can just twist, turn, and pull out the plant in order to least disturb the soil, or cut the stems off at the base of the plant, leaving the roots in the ground to compost down and feed the soil. Read more about garden clean up and winter prep here..

I am harvesting zinnia seeds today, for the how-to, see the how-to here..

I am also harvesting my Limelight hydrangea blossoms now that they have that wee tint of pink to them. The secret to drying them is all in the timing...

I am working on moving pertinent and interesting (I think) posts over from my old blog. That one was too expensive and not user friendly. I have raised this blog up from the ashes and I love it. It is free (which is great as I do not get paid to blog ; ) and easy to use.

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Must find a moment to get out there and VOTE today. If you haven't done so yet, today is the last day for early voting.

And... spending lots of time with Hemingway every day. He is very sad and lonely, missing his sister. This picture of my two boys... can you believe how much both the dog and the grandson have grown?

Have a Great Sunday & Week Ahead!