Roasted peanuts

We had a couple of nice sunny days here so I went out and pulled up all the peanuts. It is unusually warm for being almost December. Even the strawberries are getting confused and blooming...

Not sure what I am supposed to do with these rebels

The green peas are blooming too but that is as expected. Here is a picture I took from the backyard when it was the most sunny...

I also added an extra rope for the passion fruit to climb

The chooks are molting as hell, and nowadays I find more feathers in their coop than poop.

At least their coop gets warm and fluffy

Back to the peanuts, now the big patch is cleaned out. I noticed a potato had decided to grow there as well, so I moved it a bit more to the middle of the bed, and left it there. Hopefully it won't die.
Here is a couple of pictures of the peanut roots when I pulled them up.

Renegade potato is at the bottom

Quite a lot of big ones

After roasting them for about an hour, it turned out almost half the shells were either empty or had underdeveloped nuts. But the other half that had nuts in them... My... those peanuts were big, juicy and oily. Yummm yumm. Will definitely plant more of these.

After I was done

Slow growth

Not much happens in the garden. It is a mild autumn. Hardy vegetables are growing but very slowly.
Last weekend I finally cleared off some of peanut leafs and branches that had crawled out of the bed and were blocking the path. It was about 30 cm wide, and I also dug out about 5 cm into the bed to see what condition the peanuts were in.

Lots of peanuts just for being the edge of the bed

 They are almost ready, just a week or two more and I can harvest them as I like. I boiled these and they were very tasty. Maybe I dry or roast them next time.
More of the potatoes are emerging in the backyard. It was a long wait...

I am not sure, but I think all three are potatoes

Other than that, chingensai are almost fully grown, and I pick them eventually for cooking. Broccoli are getting bigger and bigger too... but still no flowers

Early in the morning, the dew is beautiful

Slim chances

Summer is officially over, and a clear sign of that is that the chickens have almost stopped laying eggs. I used to get 3-4 eggs a day, but now they are down to 1 egg every 3 days between the 4 of them. Oh well.
Bought some very yummy african peanuts from a local farmer at the store, along with some imported grapes from U.S. which were extremely sweet.
Thought I should experiment and see if any of those can be grown in my garden...
As for the peanuts, I just dug some of them in the soil. I am not expecting any miracles but just wait and see what happens...
And for the grapes, I cut it a bit and dipped it into root hormone and planted it in a pot. Let's see if we can repeat last year's pomegranate cutting success...

The bathroom is the only place the cats won't go into

Chances of either of them growing is very small but it's interesting to see what happens.
A few of the many many potatoes I put into the backyard's upper bed have finally decided to emerge...

It can be seen as the only green leaf on top

The broccoli is growing nicely. I guess it is thanks to the space I left between the seeds, and the initial netting.