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Yup, I just took this photo this week and you see that right, still one (actually two) pepper left in the unheated greenhouse and it has gone down to 27° F more than once. I just put up a full garden tour if you want to see what’s growing this time of year in our wet Western Washington backyard.

Happy Thanksgiving! I knew I put that rhubarb in the freezer for a reason! @call.it.christian claims it’s a must add to homemade cranberry sauce. I usually make fermented cranberry sauce but totally forgot. I gotta say it is pretty tasty! Might even add some to my next cranberry ferment.

I thought chickens don’t molt in their first year. Our 3 spring chickens didn’t get that memo. No eggs at all this month from any of our 16 gals. It’s a good thing we hoarded eggs in September. We’ll see if we can make it through this year’s egg drought without buying eggs. 🤞🏼

I decied to try my hand at making some Æbleskivers today. But not just any Æbleskivers, these are made with sourdough starter. They are a traditional Danish treat that is basically a puffed pancake ball with apple filling though not traditionally made with sourdough. I have only made Æbleskivers once or twice before but it has been many years and never with sourdough. I decided to dust off my Æbleskiver pan and give it a go. The trickiest part is knowing when to turn them. I made a big mess out of the first few but by the end they were coming out perfect!

Some blueberry varieties have the prettiest fall color. This is from the brigitta blueberry variety.

I’ve been waiting all year for pink radicchio. I first came across it from @localrootsfarmstore last year and had to try it. I got my seeds in January and planted in June. It takes some cool weather for the leaves to turn pink. All 4 of these were from the same packet and they all look so different. They are just starting to head up and turn pink. I hope there’s time for them to reach maturity before it gets too cold. It looks like @localrootsfarmstore is already starting to harvest theirs.

Look what’s trying to bloom in the middle of November! @haldengarden sent me some anemone and ranunculus corms to grow last year which did pretty well in the spring. I thought I pulled the corms out over the summer after they died back but this anemone managed to escape and is starting to bloom. I’m not complaining. I wish I had left them all in the ground. Ah well.

It’s not too late to plant your garlic but best do it soon. The @coronatools weeding trowel did a good job getting holes just the right size for the garlic. You can see what 8 varieties I’m growing and some differences between softneck and hardneck varieties in my newest video.

Does the corn you grow look like this? This is what happens when you have poor pollination. Most of this year’s corn came out fine but had a few ears on the ends that looked like this. The corn in the middle of the planting always grows best because it gets better pollination. That’s why it’s always better to grow corn in a cluster rather than a row and the more the better. Btw this corn is called Cascade Ruby Gold, a flint corn.

Happy #tomatotuesday! This is all that’s left of this season’s tomatoes. Which means the last tomato pic you’re likely to see from me for quite some time. I miss them already!

Even though most of the garden is put to bed, we are still enjoying meals from the garden. One of our favorite weekend meals comes from the garden: fried potatoes, onions, peppers, kale and herbs.

Isn’t this casper kale beautiful? It gets more stunning in cooler weather. I came across this variety at @bakercreekseeds and had to try it. Started it in spring and it was shaded all summer between the corn and zucchini and not harvested from until the end of the season. Hoping to be able to harvest leaves from it all winter. It doesn’t have a strong kale taste, more like a leafy cabbage. I’m always looking for new varieties of kale to try if you have any suggestions, let me know!

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