One Hundred Dollars a Month

Hi Mavis and One Hundred Dollars a Month readers!
This past summer I shared my summer garden with you and am excited to share my fall garden this time around.  Most of my fall vegetables have already been planted and are well on their merry way to giving me a fruitful harvest come early spring.

​In my garden I have carrots, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, spinach, lettuce, arugula, beets, kale, radish, garlic, and collards planted.   I also have snap peas that volunteered itself in this garden bed, so I went and put in a small red trellis just in case they decided to keep growing and needed something to crawl on.

I planted brussels sprouts in the spring, but they did not fare well during the hot summer months.  I read that brussels sprouts do well in colder temps, so I decided to give it another go.  To keep my brussel sprouts some company, I planted a row of carrots in between the sprouts.

I also planted radish in the spring but didn’t care for the flavor of it, so I planted a different variety of radish this fall in hopes it will taste better.  This is Easter Egg Blend radish.

Lettuce is about the easiest vegetable to grow!  I’m waiting for these butter crunch lettuce to get a bit bigger, then I plan to make a beet apple walnut salad.  My kids have also been requesting turkey sandwiches for school lunch, just so they can have fresh lettuce with it.

Along with my fall plants, I am ready to harvest the last of my summer vegetables, including these leeks.  Leek potato soup is on the menu this week!   You can also spy swiss chard in this picture, which I mostly use in breakfast smoothies (ssshhh the kids don’t know this!).

My neighbor gave me this horseradish plant which I planted in May.  Before I harvest this, I need to do some research.  I was told by a fellow gardener that I will need goggles and rubber gloves, sounds a little intimidating!  I’m planning on making horseradish sauce to go with our prime rib Thanksgiving dinner.

Here is the sad pathetic state of my tomato plants.  As you can see, I still have alot of good tomato’s to pick.  The roots in these plants were too strong and I had to use my husbands brute strength to pull these out.  I canned and froze homemade tomato and pasta sauce and am really not in the mood to do anymore canning.  I even used Mavis’s amazing heirloom pasta sauce recipe.  Maybe I’ll muster up some will power this week and do one more batch of tomato sauce.

This acorn squash plant volunteered itself.  I have never planted acorn squash before, so it is a mystery to me where these came from.  But I’ll take it!  I’m going to be making stuffed acorn squash with them.

Thanks for letting me share my fall garden with you!  You can follow more of my urban gardening adventures on my blog journal from a not quite urban homestead.

~ Henrietta from the Pacific Northwest

If you would like to have your garden, chicken coop or something you’ve made featured on One Hundred Dollars a Month, here’s what I’m looking for:

• Your Garden Pictures and Tips – I’d especially like to see your garden set ups, growing areas, and know if you are starting seeds indoors this year. If so,  show me some picture of how you are going about it.
• Your Chicken and Chicken Related Stories – Coops, Chicks, Hen’s, Roosters, Eggs, you name it. If it clucks, send us some pictures to share with the world.
• Cool Arts & Crafts – Made from your very own hands with detailed {and well photographed} pictures and instructions.
• Your pictures and stories about your pets. The more pictures and details the better.
• Garage Sale, Thrift Store and Dumpster Diving pictures and the stories behind the treasures you found including how much you paid for them.

If I feature your pictures and the stories behind them on One Hundred Dollars a Month, I will send you a $20.00 gift card to the greatest store in the world: Amazon.com.

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