How did we commemorate the beginning of October? By gardening, of course!
If you're not out there weeding and planting and tending this time of year, you won't have a nice fall/winter crop to harvest. You don't need a fancy greenhouse either, just some row-covers if you plant cold-hardy crops. If you want to go the fancy greenhouse route, check out Eliot Coleman's books to learn more.
Here are the kids, weeding (before harvesting tomatoes and peppers); no, they don't always have goofy grins while weeding, but they don't complain about having to do it either:
So what are we weeding and tending to? Well, there's choi sum:
and lettuce:
and carrots:
and don't forget the cabbage (although that was planted a while ago) :
Another nice fall crop is kale. It's highly cold tolerant. Hubby grew 2 different varieties this year:
We're also harvesting some end-of-summer crops like potatoes (no pic, sorry) and sweet potatoes:
Sweet potatoes as big as footballs (with the density of bowling balls) -
Here's a more mature choi-sum that hubby's been harvesting already:
Hubby re-planted some summer squash after vine borers killed our squash plants earlier this summer. We've been getting a really nice harvest from them. Both the patty-pans:
and the summer squash:
Because we needed room for the new plantings, hubby pulled out a bunch of volunteer dill plants and I hung them up to dry. Who needs Halloween decorations when you have these?
I hope you're running a nice Autumn garden yourself! Next up: tomato pie recipes.
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." ~ Douglas Adams
