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| Saffron is Harvested in October |
Who expected 80 degree temperatures in November? Our first frost not coming until
mid-November? Not me. But then, we didn’t have our last frost until
late May this year. I picked red raspberries
this week from my backyard. I still have
tomatoes and peppers coming in, as well as my saffron.
As readers know, I pulled tomatoes out of the Stoddart
Avenue Community Garden a couple of weeks ago.
I hung some of the vines from my plot in my garage, where those tomatoes
are ripening out of the harsh night time temperatures.
We’ve pulled so many tomatoes and sunflowers out of the
SACG, that I needed extra help to get our lawn waste bags hauled from the
Garden to the curb. Amy and Cathy came to my rescue on a balmy Halloween afternoon and Susan donated more lawn waste bags after we used up all of these.
I’ve put my dehydrator to good use drying red jalapenos,
cayenne and serrano peppers to make my own chili pepper flakes and powders. I slice the peppers and dry them overnight in
the dehydrator. Then, I run them through
my herb mill to flake them. To convert
them to powder, I can then put them in my tiny herb grinder. Luckily, I bought lots of different types of
herb jars from World Market.
We have one more week left in the SACG growing season. On Saturday, November 12, we will be
cleaning out the kids’ gardening beds, moving two of their raised beds up against
the fence (after relocating some daffodil bulbs), cutting back our flowers, cleaning
out the food pantry plots and tidying up our shed. We could always use more help. We’ll start at 9:30 and finish around lunch
time.
Before then, I’ll be harvesting peppers and
parsley (which I
can dry and save) and clearing those plants away.
All of the tomatoes that we harvested in October helped the
total pounds that we have donated to area food pantries and homeless shelter.
And, Chris Bradley is predicting another polar vortex this
winter, although maybe later than in 2014.
Maybe in February or even March.
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