LallyLuckFarm

[Image description: an adolescent brown (chocolate) muscovy duck poses for a selfie with his walking food dispenser]

[Image description: a group of people, captioned "all the seeds I'm stratifying for spring", stand uncomfortably close around a woman seated on a couch who is captioned "the butter"]

[Image description: Buster Bluth proclaims he's a monstera, rather than a monster, because of the picture of a monstera superimposed on his head]

This is admittedly stupid but I laughed a bunch while making it

[Image description: a cartoon image of a translucent sheet draped over a potted plant, with text that says "the ghost of the plant I killed"]

We've had an overnight low of 21°F already, despite the unseasonable daily high temps. One of the things I prefer to do after our first few frosts is harvesting our Jerusalem artichokes (Helianthus tuberosus) because of the chemical changes they undergo - the starches change and they become a little sweeter.

If you haven't yet (and you haven't), please suggest a plant nursery doing good things in your region (or a region other than your own, that's fine too) so others visiting can put their plant dollars towards nurseries engaged in good works and social equity.

What's growing on with you all?

I am feeling a little sad about the state of my progress in relation to the imaginary and arbitrary goals I had set for myself - every task in the garden reminds me of two not being done. I hope your garden adventures are filling you with joy, though!

Let's share how our gardens are growing, and encourage those seeds we've all planted this year, whether that's in our gardens, someone else's, or within ourselves

[Image description: the Aurora borealis painted the night sky with streaks of red, purple, and green all the way down to the 43rd parallel this evening]

I am a bit swamped this week, as I am prepping for a fair on Saturday and also trying to get things squared around the house for my parents to come meet their granddaughter.

Our tomatoes are pretty much done for the season, and I think I'm going to have to clip and cure some of our pumpkins in the hoophouse rather than leaving them on the vine. This morning a friend let me take a truck bed's worth of wild elderberry cuttings for the fair and other fall sales, which was super nice of her.

What's growing on with you all?

[Image description: four male Muscovy ducks resting in a row amid grasses and low forbs. One is a light brown with some white around his neck. Next to him is a white one with even lighter brown along his wings and on the top of his head. The third is a mottled gray boy with white highlights and a black head, while the fourth is black and green on his wings with a black head and white belly]

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[Image description: text which says "You're a 10 but it's on the pH scale". Underneath is a picture of a woman whose face suggests she is dropping hard truths. OP has since learned that this is a character from a show saying "You're basic" and that the post is accidentally self-referential]