Ok, so I pulled the winter storage beets today. With the hard frost they had out there they were easy to find in the cowpeas planted around them. The frost did not effect the leaves at all so the were easy to find and pull even though the Piggott Heirloom Cowpeas had overgrown them entirely.
Patti picked her way through the cowpeas which had set enough again for her to fill a paper gocery bag full of the pods, mostly dry, which contributed to my shelling to do while laid up and supine on the bed.
We pulled the gourds from the garden as the frost had destroyed the leaves. The Gooseneck Gourds from Glenn Drowns, as stated before, had only one plant survive and I do hope we get plenty of viable early seeds from them. The fruits themselves are huge if that is any consolation.
Besides the half dozen grocery bags of bean pods Patti harvested, I had access to the corn crib that Lance built and I grabbed a half dozen of the best cobs from the top of the crib that he had harvested. The harvester he bought from the neighbor thankfully does not shell the corn, and the cobs are whole from us to choose from.
So the Victor Kucyk 2175 is harvested, and we have plenty for seed to do another acre next year. I have a couple of grocery bags of dried bean pods to work through, and there are plenty of beets to make pink (really magenta) potatoes for the baby for the winter. 90 minutes of working in the garden with Patti and my leg was as useless as a wet noodle. Oh well. That is what the bed and ice packs are for.
Great day on the farm! Hard frost already? Wow! Baby Vi and Patti are beautiful!
no frost here at the house, but the minnetonka and ness farms are done, with just some harvesting left of things like dry soup beans. My leg is still useless. That worries me. Oh well. We will see how it goes.