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Like you, I am spending time canning meat. Turkeys were pretty cheap this year, and I bought 3. There is only the two of us, so I have canned the leftovers. Still have one left in the freezer.
Gathered up all the green tomatoes (small) from what I had and the neighbor and made a batch of green salsa.
The soil where I am is really poor and rocky (in the mountains) and I will be planning on how to improve the situation.
Thanks.

Howdy folks. Hope you are all doing well now that winter seems to have set in everywhere. We got our first deep freeze just over a week ago so I was very busy getting prepared for that. I’d already brought everything in once for a false alarm but still had 2 big tomato plants out and had taken my lemon, a bougainvillea and one pepper out to get more sun and rain.

As I was gathering up hoses and putting cleaned pots up in my shed I fell over a bale of hay and knocked my head on the shed door, went backward over the hay, down the steps up into the shed and unconscious on the ground. Nice concussion out of that :(

My husband is not the gardener in the family but he ended up having to pick the last of those maters and bring the other things back in the house. I’ve been laid up now for 12 days :( Waiting to get MRIs and see a back surgeon over this. Not a happy ending to my best gardening year in ages. But, I’ve still got lots of tomatoes and peppers going in the sunroom and on the balcony. I can care for the sunroom plants using my walker but hubby’s been having to keep a check on the balcony plants as I can’t make the stairs yet.

Did get my outside areas all mulched. Got a good bit of compost that still needs to be spread but it will have to wait. Either the concussion or a neck injury left me having trouble using my right hand for about a week but been crocheting this week getting the hand working again. Doc says thats good. Looking forward to being back up and going again so planning out my spring planting while I do the rest thing.

Merry Christmas all!

I am writing on the 19th , a day after a snow/sleet/rain and then freeze event (winter in Maine.) I had planned on roto-tilling and spreading fertilizer but alas I think I will put it off for ...oh?...a 100 days or so. Not complaining at all , we had such a great summer and fall in 2016 that winter is welcome with all of it’s beauty. One thing with the snow covered with a 1/4 inch of ice is “SNOW TUBING!” we are going tonight...will report if I break anything!