We harvested all these black walnuts from a friend’s place.Dave put the bucket of walnuts in a large garbage can full of water. He agitated the mix using a dry wall mixing tool to remove the green hulls. I filled an old crock pot with some of the filtered sludge and cooked it down to make black walnut ink.These are all nuts (minus the ones I used to make hermit cookies) after Dave dried them on a sheet all day on the driveway.
We gathered a couple more buckets full from this tree next to the dairy barn next door. Our pine tree is a little in the way in this photo. We hear the walnuts hitting the tin roof throughout the fall. There is also a young tree on our property along this fence and we found some nuts under it, too.
The white wood asters and blue stemmed goldenrod in bloom.herbs and other potted plantsbeen seeing a lot of praying mantisa closeup of the blue stemmed goldenrodBumper crop of peppers this year and the Moondurang tomatoes are still producing.
Yukon potatoes did well, too. We have them stored down in the basement.I’m extending the bed off the back patio. Moving columbine and white wood aster from the cracks of the patio brick.The butternut did well, too. This photo was taken before we had a bit of frost.The black locust tree and chestnut oak (smaller tree to right and behind) are doing very well. We planted them 4 years ago.I love our meadow in September.A closer look at the New York ironweed, jewelweed and boneset.New York ironweedblue cardinal flower in the meadow closer to the roadThis little tree frog hitched a ride to the farmers market with me.We cleaned out the mudroom and shed this month. These photos are of the shed.purple stem aster down by the creekCanada goldenrod also down by the creekThe aster and goldenrod down by the creek.With Darcy’s help we harvested 56 butternut squash. We left many unripe ones in the field. They won’t ripen because we got such an early frost which made the vines die back.
