Monday, November 11, 2018 – Yes, I knew what I’d be doing today! My little venture into gardening is probably over for the year but I’ve learned so many lessons that will help with our spring crops! Recommendations for what we should grow in the spring are welcome!
We picked lots of radishes before Monday but these were the last of the radish crop! I’ve been enjoying them in my salads made from lettuce, cucumber and radishes from the garden!!!
Somehow this photo makes my carrot crop look like the carrots are bigger than they are. The largest was no bigger than my little finger 🙂 but they will be perfect in a salad. 
The little carrots and radishes after being cleaned up
I was growing the turnips for the bottoms. I think they didn’t have enough time in the ground to get nice and large. Roy however loves the turnip tops so that meant we spent some hubby wife time at the kitchen sink rinsing, and rinsing, and rinsing then peeling the leaves off the stems, then rinsing and rinsing some more. The tiny bottoms will be cleaned up and cooked along with the tops. Here’s the little bottoms:
Here’s a few of the turnip green tops:
Here’s the two bags of turnip green leaves, and a picture with the tiny turnip bottoms in it, after all the washing and work. It’s amazing to me that we grew two rows of turnips and MAYBE we’ll get two meals of turnip greens.
We lived in Minnesota for five months our first year on the road. While there we grew tomatoes, some of which were still quite green when it was time for us to leave there. We picked them and eventually all turned red and were delicious. I am hopeful that’s what will happen with all of these tomatoes below. I did leave a few small ones on the bushes to see what would happen with a couple of nights with freezing temperatures. 
I went down the hill to where the watermelon’s are growing and said goodbye to the two little watermelons there. Aren’t they precious! Can’t wait to grow some next year at the right time of the year so they can be eaten!!!
The two peanut plants are doing well. Don’t know how the freeze will affect them, we’ll see!
I left a few green onions, a few small tomatoes, a few cucumbers and all of the new okra so I can see how they do in a slight freeze. Another thing I hope to learn from. 
This is all of the cucumbers I picked today. Guess I’ll be pickling cucumbers this week! 
The small turnip roots all cleaned up (before they were chopped up and in the bag a few photos above) and what’s left of the green onions. We’ve enjoyed going out to pick a fresh one to sprinkle on top when we’re having baked potatoes. 
I’ll let ya’ll know if any of the vegetables we left on the bush, vine, etc. make it through the freeze and do anything. The weather experts now say that tonight will go down to 28 for four hours tomorrow night and the following night. We’ll see!
Ya’ll come back now, ya’ hear!
BECAUSE HE LIVES 