Treadle

Ello, out there in blogger land!

Hope all is well in you're neck of the woods! We are all well and going. I recently sold my Singer Futura 900 so that I could could get a treadle sewing machine. By selling that it provided the money fort he treadle. It was worth it...so far:) I ahven't had a chance to sew on it, yet. I need to get a belt for it. I lightly sanded the wood since that's all it "needed". Okay, so it really didn't need it but I wanted to change it a little. Now, that I think about it I probably could of just wiped it off and polished it. Oh, well. I need to finish getting the rust off some of the metal on the outside of the machine and maybe the cast iron legs, and the other cast iron parts. I forgot to mention that it is a Red Eye 66 (Singer). Beautiful it is! Even though it doesn't have a belt I couldn't resist having a little fun and moving the treadle back and forth with my feet. It has two different feet that came with it and a good supply of oil. I need to buy a key for the drawers to lock them and a regular standard foot for it.

On another note, our garden is still going. I harvested more icicle radishes and lettuce yesterday. I am going to roast the radishes and radish greens, Lord-willing for supper. Can't wait to try them cooked! Radishes are so easy to grow. I think they are tasty.

I know I still haven't gotten back to my stance and sometime I will just not sure when. Life is busy. It's always a great thing to ask the Lord to make a person productive..that's what I did and that's what happened!

Hope it's sunny in your neck of the woods! Good day!


Sincerely,
Karla

November Garden update

Howdy, Yall!

Thought we'd share pictures of our garden with yall. Now, you'll notice in some that our tomatoes need to be pruned(please excuse that) and some have been since the photos were taken. It takes time to prune so sometimes we don't get to it as quickly as we should. Also, the date is wrong on the pictures.

Hope yall enjoy!












Tomatillos
Tomatillos
Onion and garlic chives
Sage

Tomatillos




When we came back from visiting friends in Cali for a week this is what my mints looked like in the above kiddie pool. But, the sage and garlic/onion chives looked great!
Lettuce-yum!
Magenta Crisphead Lettuce
Little lettuces.
More lettuces:)
And more lettuce.
White icicle radishes- they're supposed to be spicy.
More white icicle radishes
6-8 cauliflower plants growing.
Onions
A tomato plant that sprung up by itself. We grew all our tomatoes in GroPots or Smart Pots but this one came up in one of our raised beds.
Squash
We have a broccoli head that looks like it's ready to harvest. We have other small heads growing.
The one that's ready to be harvested.

Cantaloupe

Royal Burgundy beans(they're purple till you cook them then they turn green like other green beans)
Green/Royal Purple bean plants. Some of the leaves got frost bitten.
Those are some Delicious tomatoes! I can't help but eat some when I am washing up a bunch after I harvest them or my brother does.


Casper eggplant
eggplant..I don't know what it's called.
Pablano peppers



Lavender
I know you can't see them but there a ton of jalapenos on this plant. We've got a few jalapeno plants. Some grown from seed and some might be transplants.
One of our bell pepper plants. We have 5 bell pepper plants...not much but next year we might plant more than just 5.
Jalapenos!
A collard that came up from an earlier planting this year.
Karla's comfrey. She loves herbs!
The cayenne patch. We have several of them. They just need to turn red.

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Chia
beets

Siberian Dwarf Kale


















Pimiento
Tabasco peppers
Valerian
Valerian
Strawberry
Turnips/greens
Chocolate mint
Turnip


jalapeno, cayenne, and belle peppers.







more white icicle radishes

Lettuce! Yum!







Siberian Dwarf Kale


Broccoli


Ain't nothing like garden fresh tomatoes!


Yummy crisphead lettuce.










On behalf of the Ward family,

Karla