Friday, November 16, 2012

November Gardening

This decorative kale is in a pot on the deck.  I can see it from my computer desk.  I added it and a couple other Fall transplants last month.  I have a Mum, and a Viola, in pots that are doing fine.
 This is the golden delicious apple tree before we picked the apples.  We have 36+ lbs of applees stored in a couple of bins in the lower level.  I have moved my frozen soups, etc., from the gridge down there into my new deepfreeze that I keep in my computer room.  I need a cover for this appliance as it is glaring white.  Something in green would be nice.  I made a heaping apple pie 2 days ago.  It is pretty good.  I also have a few packages (593 ml) of apple sauce made and frozen.  We are eating the apples fresh every day and they are very good.
 One of the many pumpkins that have a second life as they appear along Cordova Bay Road where it goes through Mount Doug. park, all along the roadside.  Some of the designs are truly intricate.
A row of the jack o'lanterns on display along Cordova Bay Road in Mount Doug Park.

November gardening has been all about preserving the fruit from the plum and apple trees; and making and freezing soups.  We are trying to stay away from the salty store bought versions of soup.  I use mushroom soup and tomatoe soup in casseroles.  Otherwise, our soups are now homemade using chicken stock , beef stock, or fish stock..all homemade too.  The soups are so very tasty and nutritious made from fresh vegetables, dried beans, peas, grains and other good things to eat.

2 comments:

Maggie said...

I do believe I have made a discovery. I have constantly been getting spam comments that I have 'marked as spam' and deleted. On this post I find the picture of the moss has been pinned and repinned several times on the Pininterest Site. The first pin was to a site selling makeup. The colors in the moss were used as advertising on some makeup called Autumn. In the spam comments I see the spammer praising this Autumn makeup. This Pininterest is an evil thing! I wonder if Google examines the spam that us bloggers put into our spam folders. I wonder if they would be interested in this mis-use of the blogs on blogspot.

Maggie said...

Here is a sample of all the spams I have been receiving and deleting. Sometimes 10 a day (with the offending spam site deleted from the comment, of course)
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