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Late Summer Harvest Tips + Self-Coaching Hacks You Need Now!
Also, what fall crops are you planning to plant this year?
Cedie Omaña
August 27, 2024
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In Today's Edition:
Homestead Tip 🌱
Poll Results From Last Sunday 📊
All Things Homestead: Mastering the Harvest of Late Summer Bounty 🍃
Personal Development: Boost Your Game with Self-Coaching 🤗
Today's Top Picks 🛍️
Let’s Keep It Reel 🤣
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Homestead Tip of the Day:
Begin planting cool-season crops like kale, spinach, broccoli, and carrots. These vegetables thrive in cooler temperatures and can often be harvested well into the fall or early winter. Direct sow seeds or transplant seedlings into your garden beds.
Poll Results From Last Sunday 📊
What is your favorite fall homesteading activity?
🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Baking with homegrown produce
🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Preserving food for winter
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Decorating the homestead for fall
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Preparing for winter holidays
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Others (Feel free to specify your answer after you've voted.)
via @beehiiv polls
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All Things Homestead
Mastering the Harvest of Late Summer Bounty 🍃
As summer begins to wane, the garden offers up some of its most colorful and flavorful bounty. It's the peak time for tomatoes, peppers, melons, and more, each needing a careful touch to go from vine to table.
Here are some practical tips to make sure you harvest and handle your late-summer produce like a pro.
How to Pick and Handle Late-Summer Veggies and Fruits:
Tomatoes:
When to Pick: Grab those tomatoes when they look ripe and feel firm. If it looks like a frost might be coming soon, you can pick them a little early and let them finish ripening on your window sill.
How to Handle: Be gentle with them. Tomatoes bruise easily, and a bruised tomato will spoil fast.
Peppers:
When to Pick: You can pick bell peppers when they’re big and green, but if you wait till they turn red, yellow, or orange, they’ll be sweeter. For hot peppers, make sure you know what color they turn when they’re ripe.
How to Handle: Snip peppers off with scissors or pruners so you don’t yank on the plant too hard.
Melons:
When to Pick: Melons are ready when they smell sweet near the bottom and they come off the vine pretty easily.
How to Handle: Melons can be heavy! Use both hands to pick them up to avoid dropping and cracking them.
General Tips for All Your Produce:
Best Time to Pick: Early morning is the best time to get out there and pick—everything is still cool and crisp.
Use Sharp Tools: Keep your scissors or knives sharp. Clean cuts help keep your plants healthy.
Be Gentle: Think of your fruits and veggies as fragile. The less they get bumped around, the longer they’ll stay fresh.
Smart Storing: Don’t just throw everything in the fridge. Tomatoes do better on your counter, while peppers and melons last longer if they're kept cool.
What to Avoid:
Don’t Pile Them High: Stacking your fruits and veggies too high can squash the ones on the bottom.
Don’t Rush the Ripening: Whenever you can, let the produce ripen on the plant for the best flavor, unless you’re worried about losing them to frost or critters.
Hold Off on Washing: Wait to wash your produce until you’re ready to eat it. Keeping them dry means they won’t spoil as quickly.
Personal Development
Boost Your Game with Self-Coaching 🤗
Ever feel like you could use a personal coach but don’t have the resources or time to find one? No problem! You can become your own motivator and guide with some effective self-coaching techniques.
Here are some tips on how to effectively encourage independence while ensuring everyone feels supported:
Self-Coaching Techniques to Enhance Your Performance:
Set Clear Goals:
How: Start with what you want to achieve. Be specific! Instead of saying "I want to be better at gardening," say "I want to grow 30% more vegetables next season."
Why: Clear goals give you a target to aim for and make it easier to measure progress.
Engage in Reflective Practice:
How: At the end of each day or week, take a moment to reflect on what went well and what didn’t. Write these reflections down in a journal.
Why: This helps you learn from mistakes and successes, tweaking your strategies for better results next time.
Ask Yourself Tough Questions:
How: Regularly challenge yourself with questions like, “What am I avoiding?” or “How could I have handled that better?”
Why: This fosters self-awareness and pushes you to grow beyond your comfort zones.
Develop a Growth Mindset:
How: Embrace challenges as opportunities to learn, rather than obstacles. When you fail, figure out what the lesson is, and use it to improve.
Why: A growth mindset keeps you resilient and open to learning, key traits for ongoing improvement.
Create Actionable Steps:
How: Break down your big goals into small, manageable tasks. If your goal is to build a new chicken coop, your first step might be researching designs or materials.
Why: This makes your goals less daunting and provides a clear path forward.
Practice Self-Compassion:
How: Be kind to yourself when things don’t go as planned. Acknowledge your efforts and remind yourself that perfection is not the goal; improvement is.
Why: Self-compassion reduces stress and prevents discouragement, keeping you motivated.
Celebrate Small Wins:
How: Recognize and celebrate even the smallest successes. Finished that fence repair? Treat yourself to a nice break or a small reward.
Why: Celebrating progress, no matter how small, boosts your morale and keeps you energized for the next challenge.
So grab that notebook, write down your first goal, and start coaching yourself towards a better, more fulfilled you.
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Let’s Keep It Reel!
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