Looks great, it’s going to be a while until I can harvest much, the weather here has been awful for growing. I have a few peppers that are ripening, but lots are still growing. And the tomatoes are all still green too.
Shoulda started this thread a month ago - my garden is on the way out already. We started seeds in Feb, planted in April and only have peppers, squash, and cherry tomatos left active in the garden. Just planted another round of chard and lettuce - they like the cooler temps. Gonna whack the hops tomorrow - I get what I get…
I guess it worked out ok. because my harvest came in earlier - and now everything is coming in and is dirt cheap.
Our tomato harvest is starting to take off, but peppers, eggplant, and most other stuff has to have more time. We did have a great harvest of onions, garlic, and potatoes.
I think we’re going to run out of time on our tomatoes and peppers, but we’ll get some stuff off of them. The garlic and leeks have been great though, you’re right Denny.
Not typically, but I think we’re going to this year. It would be a shame to lose all of the nice tomatoes before they have a chance to ripen. It’s going to need to be some big cover though, the plants got pretty big!
Radishes are long gone. Lettuce and peas are done, there’s a few stragglers with the beans and we’re right in the middle of a flood of tomatoes and cucumbers. I’ve even got 3 little watermelons coming along. Banana peppers and cayenne peppers are coming along nicely. The bell peppers are getting there slowly - I’m not sure I’m going to get much from them.
I’m picking carrots, celery, onions and leeks as we need them and will probably leave the potatoes until close to the end of the month. The pumpkins are slowly taking over my back yard - why do I keep planting the damned things?
I’m envious! After the wet summer we had in Iowa this year my garden gave up the ghost a week or two ago. We still have green and red bell peppers as well as jalapenos in the ground but they aren’t doing much. The tomatoes, onions, radishes, peas, kohlrabi and lettuce all drowned out.
My garden would be called low ground by my Dad. Floods when it rains and then gets hard as a rock when it starts to dry out. It’s the only spot in my yard that gets any sun too. Next year it may become a shed. :-\
I had a garden that I tended to until my youngest son was born in July. Then it went down hill. A few 'maters,
two pumkins. I’m gonna plant some onions for spring harvest…
That’s what raised beds are for. I built some out of some old firewood, put a layer of the really rotting stuff in the bottom of the bed and then added nice dirt. The plants seem to like it, at least until this year’s weather made them unhappy.
i made four 3x6 raised gardens about 2 feet high so i don’t have to bend over. made them out of old two by 6,8,10 etc from the old deck. love them.
be careful putting shed on low spot if it really floods. all my neighbors ran their sumps to their back yard. water found my low spot where my shed was. despite being slightly elevated, it trashed the flooring (part of shed was a play house with vinyl flooring)
I want to try cabbages. What ya gonna do with that late season cabbage? Lots of sugar in there for a good fermentation.
Im starting to look at the farm markets for some nice late cabbages. Time to pack the crock with the holiday seasons kraut.
Im wondering if the lack of rain has hurt the crop this year.The Amish usually have gigantic cabbages this time of year. Make that one you have look like an onion.