Hello, Paula. Good; glad I didn’t have to be completely referential to everyone…. And I love the name of your blog!

Ellen, hah, yeah, but there’re still weeds out there! I’ve reached something of an agreement with weeds. It just means I have to mulch more than I weed. I don’t often show pics of the whole garden (and indeed aren’t here either) but yeah, it’s tidy for a change so I took a pic!

Hello Leiah, yay, I love all these new commenters with similar interests! It’s only tidy 2x a year, I swear, otherwise it’s madness…controlled madness but madness nonetheless.

Oh yeah, Mike, and what also happens is you get to eat a lot of the things that aren’t necessarily on the “favorites” list with your family at this time of year, just to use them up. This time of year? Swiss chard!

Hayden, it WILL be lovely, and you’ll be doing the same darned thing with your garden substituting for your refrigerator. Point of fact, I never have produce in the fridge; it’s all pick and eat! But yeah, people don’t quite realize how much skinnier you actually get if your food has to be MADE before you eat it

Stef, baby steps. Unless you’re a work-all-day-don’t-bug-me kind of gal. I just try to bite off small bits at a time, because that is all I ever seem to have: small bits…probably more the case with you, I would imagine. But here, yeah, there’s that added deadline of “snowfall” that tends to make a girl rally toward tidiness.

Nana, just you wait! But indeed, salads are mostly in the greenhouse affairs now….

I love scrounging together a meal from a handful of this and that in the corners of the fridge – a little pasta or a handful of lentils, some garlic…. and odd veggies….

It will be lovely being able to harvest it myself next year…

I think it is possible that Vivien Leigh was blessed with having one of the greatest lines in a movie…ever. I hope to some day read the novel.

I adore Scarlett, she’s so perfectly dramatic.