Stevia yielded 1 ~3/4 cups after grinding -- will this be enough until next year's harvest?

Dang, all those plants, and all that harvesting and drying, turned into only 1 ~3/4 cups after I put it in the mini blender.  Will use only 1/2 tsp per thermos and see if this lasts through until next year's harvest.

GA: Carrot haul!!

WOW, what a carrot haul!!!  Between the first/main bed, the second/smaller bed near the north end, and the third/smaller/late-planted bed along the west edge, today's harvest consisted of the following:

- ~3/4 blue bucket

- overflowing white rectangle bin

- blue bin

- and a flimsy berry basket for the late-planted bed, which had some decent-sized carrots but also a lot that were too small (this bed was sowed on August 4th and suffered from poor soil and little water since it was very dry and I didn't water very often).

When I got home, most of them I just rubbed off soil and spread them out to dry, on the 3-level metal rack (with a mix of towel / newspaper underneath each layer), as well as on newspaper on the table.  

For a sizable batch, which I'll donate to food banks, I removed most of the soil very easily by dumping them in a bucket of water and swooshing them around.

GA: Harvested the rest of the carrots, beets, and celery. So, all done for this year at GA.

And WOW, what a carrot haul!!!  See other post.

First frost in yard (GA had first frost quite a while ago)

Last night went down to -5 and now the tuberous begonia is a begoner, so this was the first true frost in the yard.

Leaf collection started and finished tonight -- two garbage bins full = enough to cover yard and put 1 bag in basement

Leaf collection started and finished tonight -- two garbage bins full = enough to cover yard and put 1 bag in basement.

And, there are still some leaves in the basement left over from last fall -- one nice bag, plus two bags of finely shredded.

(I no longer shred anything, way easier this way.)

GA: Final (?) weeding of the year done -- didn't weed paths though (hence the "?" -- might weed the paths another day this fall)

Hardly a weed to be seen!

Except for the forget-me-nots and coreopsis that are popping up :D