On this day, a number of items were undertaken:

• I harvested all of the beets from the vegetable garden.
• I cut off the beet greens and sorted the better tops from the brown leaves and stems.
• I cut the beet greens in half and put them in boiling water to blanch them.
• After about 2 minutes, I rinsed them in cold water and let them sit in the colander.
• Portions of beet greens were put into freezer bags, labelled, and put into the freezer.
• We will be adding them to soups and stews mainly, but they could be mixed with other vegetables too for a dinner assortment.
• The beets were cleaned and the stems cut off.    they were sorted then put into freezer bags, still fresh for storage in the refrigerator.
• We cooked some beets for dinner that night too.
• I removed most of the nasturtiums since there was enough frost to wither them.    I collected nasturtium seeds for next year.    I will continue to do this for another 2 weeks.
• I went to the front flower gardens and cut down any stems without green leaves and took the prunings to the compost.
• We have stockpiled smaller leaves for winter mulch.    We have been using them for winter root protection for shrubs and perennials.
• A number of perennials are still blooming and i am still taking photos, some of them to be shared over the winter months.

nasturtium