Hoop house 5 Nov 2019

[TnAndy]

Put my wife a tractor bucket of compost in the hoop house yesterday and she worked on spreading it around the beds today. I took a few pics of what she has growing now, and the sweet potatoes she harvested today.

She has onions, lettuce, potatoes, tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage, green beans....we eat GOOD out of that house. Supposed to get in the low 20's Friday, so frost blankets will be out and the wood stove fired up.

She has been planting the sprouted peelings from red Pontiac potatoes.....has some about to flower.

She pulled up the sweet potatoes that were in the bed, Covington variety:

 

[Alan W.]

I was having a discussion with a friend about greenhouses. We both are considering one. Of course we are talking starter models. Yours is laid out well.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

East Texas Yam Pie

2 cups cooked, mashed yams

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/4 cup melted butter

1/4 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla

3/4 cup evaporated milk

Mix all ingredients well and pour into unbaked pie shell. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour

FOUR PIE CRUSTS

1 egg

1 tbsp vinegar

3 cups flour

1 - 1/3 cup shortening

5 tbsp water

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

Mix flour and shortening well, then add other ingredients.

Mix well with egg. Do not roll out. Press by hand into pie pan.

Pinch up edges well.