Around the House.

The big success of the winter garden: Nantes Carrots. Every carrot is great. They are all large and evenly shaped and very, very tasty.

And a Lemon.

Our "mystery squash" and a store bought pumpkin were Fall decor in front of the fireplace. We ate the pumpkin in a curry the other night, which will get turned into a soup this weekend. There is still half a pumpkin in the fridge that will get turned into puree and then other lovely edible concoctions. I'm thinking Creamy Pumpkin Penne. Yum.

That "mystery squash" turned out to be a pumpkin hybrid. Squash are notoriously hard to save seed for as they will cross-pollinate if within a quarter-mile of another variety of squash. Whatever this turned out to be must have been a neighbor's pumpkin that crossed with something we planted. Who knows! When we cut into it the flesh was stringy, almost like a spaghetti squash, but not fine enough. All in all inedible, but a neat evidence of the crazy hybrids that came come from poor seed saving, or in our case, compost tag a longs.

And another Lemon.

We bought a tiny tree this year. It's about four feet tall and leans toward the wall at about a 15 degree angle. It's nice and full though, and fits just right in our tiny house. As long as we don't touch it, it shouldn't fall over.