seed saving and winter time

I guess it's officially winter now that the predicted high temp for tomorrow is supposed to be 40degrees!  brr!

Today I did a small amount of garden cleanup by gathering the piles of rotting tomatoes saved and harvested seeds.  I've got the heirloom roma's, the red cherry tomatoes and the yellow cherry tomatoes.  I also sorted the tomatillos that were harvested a last week and cooked and pureed the good ones and saved seeds from the rotting ones.  We read somewhere that the rotting (fermenting) tomatoes are better to save seeds from so we've had piles of them stored outside rotting um...fermenting away. 

In other news our chickens are a bit happier now that we got them some straw to walk on rather than be knee deep in mud (do chickens even have knees???) and no seattle channel show after all which turns out to be fine since we were all sick and couldn't make it outside to clean up the yard anyways. 

There's a lot of work to be done before we move-we need to dig up the peach and plum tree and the various roses and flowers we want to take with us and pot them up.  The plum tree might have to be b&b'd to transport it since I think the root system is going to be too big for any of the pots we have.  We have to take down the raised beds and the chicken run...yikes!  Only 7 more weeks to go too.

I guess I'd better get to work - I'm wishing I had my zipcar membership now to rent trucks with, I may have to re-sign up.