Thanksgiving is only a month away. Root vegetables like carrots, poarsnips, and potatoes can be left in the ground until you need them unless your ground freezes in the winter. If so, it's time to harvest them and store them in a cool, dry area. Herbs like fresh thyme, sage, and rosemary can be stored in your fridge or hung to dry for a tasty addition to your next holiday meal.
Cool fall evenings are great for an outdoor scavenger hunt. Create (by yourself or with your kids) fake spider webs, pumpkins, and other fall items such as eyes, arrows, or critters. Place them around the garden. Provide each child a hand-drawn map (a printer works well, too) and a flashlight. The first one to find all the items wins!
If your batteries are always in the wrong part of the house when you need them, start a battery drawer. Using inexpensive organizer trays from a discount store such as Dollar Tree, sort the batteries by size and type. Extra batteries from oversized packs will no longer languish around your house, and you will be able to immediately tell when your stock is running low.
Your slider window tracks will shine when you use this hack. Spray them with a cleaning solution, scrub with a brush, then run a paper towel down the track to pick up the residue. As the towel absorbs the moisture from the solution, it will also lift the dirt released by your brush. You window will operate more smoothly, also!
It's time to bring in the last of your warm season vegetables before frost hits. Even your green tomatoes. What to do with them? Slice them, bread them with egg and cornmeal, and fry them in a pan. Served on rice, alone, or with mayo, you will love this Southern fall treat.