Harvest blessings

I wish I had pictures of a huge harvest to share with y'all but I'm just making a quick post to wish everyone a blessed Samhain (with the blue moon we just had as well fun stuff) I also wanted to say that I got some offshoots from sandy the worst being a lower temp winds and oh the waves! It was something to see I think and it was also fun to get into the areas few would so I could get a few pictures and my zoom lens proved to be an option that was even better then my iPhone for getting pictures

I added 2 pictures from my iPhone (no clue how they'll show) one at the pier that I went down and was on before my d40 battery died and the outher from wind point lighthouse in Racine (the first is an area slightly south follow the beach? The break between water and ground south till you get to a golf park a parking lot and like 3 or 4 cement piers it's not far at all and you can see the lighthouse from it)

Nearly caught up

I just have one more package to pack up then get out and ill be fully caught up! Then the next project is getting everything into its place in my "system" and lol I have to sort what else I want

I also tried to bring my stevia plant in I cut a large chunk of its roots so its a little traumatised but hopefully it will survive the winter and it can/will survive the lemon verabena went thru shock but I think it's starting to finally come back! The goji is also coming back tho not as strong as I'd like but if it survives winter it will be fine come summer and I may get some fruit from it! Or it might take a whole nother year lol

My nearly dead orchid and my peppers most of what's in my room now look really good I think tho I may need to replant the cauldron again and hopefully re-establish everything (oh and it's dirt got dryier then DRY! So it needs attention ill also try to get more cuttings into the mint area soon)

Another little thing to do? Get the plant tags into my little book --it's with notes and stuff how I track what I've grown year-year it's about half full after a few years and I have another book laying around somewhere that I got to replace that one once its full

I highly suggest some way to keep track of what you grow I personally love saving tags and tape them into the journal (hardcover but spiral bound is what I use there not easy to find tho) and add whatever else so ill prolly put the raspberry tag in add a note about the jersey blueberries add "random mints" because I can't I'd them and I'm certain some have died on me as well ill also add a note of the chocolate mint (it loves my garlic!) that came back from last year I'm not likely to put the flower tags in because I'm an edibles person ill also mark "random peppers" because of yet there has been little way to I'd most of them without the tags or knowing the exact places planted

So I think it's about time to start sorting how to save some of my herbs to use as well as gathering the last of the edibles that we have

Also I have a good few seeds that I have collected and am waiting on some to dry out on the fruits

Season winding down

I know I haven't posted much lately as the season is slowly but surely coming to an end I do have some more seeds and some stuff I need to sort out and that I'm also struggling with some plants to keep them alive thru the winter there not looking too hopeful but I'm still trying no less

I have one more plant to get in because none of the cuttings took I also have a couple more things to mail out one of which the weathers getting iffy for but ill find some way I know I will lol

I also have many plants to replant and that with enough time am all to try to sort what I'll try to start from seeds next year and when ill also likely have a week long vacation to Vegas that ill need them ok for

eBay update

Some of you may or may not know eBay has not been particuliarly kind to me as of late well it looks like ill have to find another way to sell some of my seeds and such because I'm gonna be leaving eBay soon

That is unless the office of the president can help me so now I'm looking into outher sites that aren't eBay and that won't have the issues they do

First possible frost

So I am about the worst gardener because I don't keep up with local weather yesterday my uncle told me that last night or tonight could be the first frost so I braught my last plant inside I kinda violently pulled her up she is my lemon verabena and she makes it clear I need more light in my room maby replace the bulbs on the aerogarden? Then put my outher light up? He'll even get daylight bulbs in my light fixture and keep that on during a chunk of the day?

I'm not doing as well as I'd like to be with what came inside and I may need to pick thru and pull out the dead stuff I also should start the herb features soon even tho indoor basil isn't going well I also need to sort cutting the posts I know livejournal could do that but research shows that blogger needs a bit of help and tweaking which means I need to get on my computer

So fun stuff I also have a fair few seeds I need to process and test tho I don't know if I have enough to sell on some things I should have plenty of outhers like some Thai peppers or Thai basil that's from another location that I occasionally work on the garden in

If you'd like to know about anything I've grown this year please don't hesitate to ask anything! I have a gmail address exact as this blog that's also hooked to my phone

Quick update

Just thought I'd drop a quick line as I haven't been around lately

I have some seeds drying some for me some trading and some for the hamster

I am still alive! Lol

We got a sewing machine at a rummage we found it dates to around 74/5 range (ok I did by googling)

I also braught most of my plants inside I have one left (the lemon verabena) and I also have many plants (strawberries mints rasberry blueberry) to protect to various degrees but as all should be hardy around here withought the containers ill wait till the snow falls for that

One last thing? I've added google adsence to the google blog I have here if anyone has any issues please let me know (may take 48 hours to appear) I mostly do my posting and most of my stuff from my iPhone so I'm not too likely to see it but if I get a couple reports ill look into changing its settings I do hope the default isn't too intrusive or anything there just to sit there and eat up a little space

Also there's a chance that I will be able to mail stuff I owe out next week so that's more like 8-10 days away if I'm correct I will be certain to post when I mail them out ok? Ill likely be right at the post when I make that post on my bike prolly will be a little tired as well but I need to get back in shape