Photos of the week

There was a lot of preserving happening here this week, especially of peppers.  We love roasted peppers.  Here are some roasted corno di toro, ready for freezing or canning.

We butchered our old hens this week, canning the meat and broth.

The neighbors delivered loads of broom sedge mulch for the gardens.  It's hard to get a perspective from the picture but these are huge: 6 feet tall and 5 feet wide.  We use mulch in the garden to suppress weeds, conserve moisture and add organic matter.

Black snake in the late turnip patch?  No, just the soaker hose.  We haven't gotten any rain since Hurricane Helene so we're keeping the sprinklers and soaker hoses going in the fall crops.

Here is just one of the fun varieties of lettuce that grew from lettuce breeder Frank Morton's lettuce mix.