I keep seeing FB posts about Canning (US) - what I would call bottling or preserving. There are racks and racks of jars containing items that I would never think of preserving like bread, potatoes, milk. They have 100s of jars of the same item. It would take me years to get through all the jars of food they store, if my consumption of homemade jam and pickles is anything to go by. 

 My Mum used to bottle a few jars of fruit a year but that was in the days before freezers. I hate wasting food but I can't help thinking that, if they need to bottle so much they are growing or buying too much in the first place.

What am I missing?

November is not my favourite month (cold, bleak, dark nights etc) so I'm looking for the positive things that November offers. 

Today, the sun is shining on the autumn leaves. Some are glowing as if they're on fire.  It seems late but most of the trees are still in leaf. 
I can still dry washing outdoors even though it catches falling leaves on their way earthwards. Pillowcases, in particular, are good leaf catchers!

Inspired by Veggies flowers named after food   .

If you had the opportunity to name a new variety of flower or vegetable. What flower or veg would you name? What name would you give it and why? 

If I had the chance to name a flower it would either be a pink lily or rose. I’d name it 
“raise your glass “
Named after one of my favourite songs by Pink . 

I’d also like to name a chilli and a squash or pumpkin. Still working on what I’d name them.

Cornish Cabbage Plants is a family business that grows plants from seed for sale as young plants. They are different to most because the plants are field grown and sold at a much larger size than the commercial module grown ones. https://www.cornishcabbageplants.com/
You may remember that I visited a local organic veg grower earlier this year and I've just seen a video of him planting out a delivery of Curly kale plants from this company. The plants were much larger than anything I would replant. Apparently they have been pulled from the ground, not dug up, and are replanted by being dropped into dibbered holes in the ground, as one would do with leeks. 
Not sure if this link to Pip's video will work https://www.facebook.com/watch/garthview/
Having seen the size of these kale plants I would have no qualms about moving brassicas around the garden or of growing them to a decent size in a seed bed before moving them to their final positions. No more  puny little seedlings for me!

I don't mean edible flowers but flowers that have something edible in their name like Rudbeckia "Marmalade" and Foxglove "Milk Chocolate".
What can you add??

Do you ever see a Job advertised and haven't a clue what it is? Some job titles are so pretentious. Here's one I saw earlier:-

"Wondering whether anyone can recommend any good eyebrow technicians? Looking for HD brows and brow mapping. Mobile or local."

Sorry, I know I'm old but "eyebrow technician" "HD brows" "brow mapping". What on earth is that about? Is this somewhere you go and end up with eyebrows halfway up your forehead and a permanently surprised look?

A Challenge for the month of November (since I can't grow a decent Mo ). 

Sow-vember
Grow-vember
Throw-vember

or any other "o" word you can suggest.
Every day, I intend to Sow a seed or Grow a plant from a cutting or Throw away a useless item - could be a dead plant or something in the home.

Care to join me?? 

I don't mean phones and computers etc with "memories", I mean items that you have that bring back memories - maybe of people who gave them to you, or places that you visited to acquire them.  Memories that only you have, attached to items that would be pretty ordinary to most people.  

I've posted elsewhere about the dining chairs with sagging bottoms that we bought in 1975 in St. Ives. I can "see" the shop where we bought them, it was so small that they only had 2 chairs in stock and had to order another 2 for us, which we collected on the next trip to the in-laws in their old fisherman's cottage in Virgin Street. I dreaded going there. It was a 5 hour drive on a Friday evening after work, heavy traffic on the motorway, everyone heading to Cornwall for the weekend, and we'd have to repeat it in the opposite direction on Sunday evening to be back in time for work for Monday. 
Today, we chopped up 3 of the chairs but there is one left, to bring back those sweet and sad memories of days of yore, 48 years ago. 

Share your special memories please.

The votes are in and have been verified.

The 2023 Harvest Festival winners are

1st Small Chilli £25
2nd Doubly Jonah £15
3rd Mark Riga £10

Congratulations

I shall be contacting the winners over the weekend to see how they would like their prize.

Inspired by SC's walk and piccies recently, here's a compilation from Kato's favourite walk, where kato manages to get himself upside down hile having a drink from a stream

https://youtu.be/vLCefOm5eak