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| I'm feeling behind right now (I'm still trying to get the hang of this harvesting on a bigger scale).
I still have to deal with/preserve:
I passed two Amish farms today whose gardens were empty already. Am I too far behind??? |
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| I got what I wanted out of my garden yesterday, only squash left out there (well, and lots of green tomatoes, but I got what I wanted). Had a light frost last night and it's suppose to be even colder tonight. It's been a nice long season so I can't complain about a frost in October. To my surprise, I had a late batch of broccoli to harvest yesterday along with the peppers, and tomatoes (green and ripe). |
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| Leeks, walking onions, jalapeno peppers, gold cherry tomatoes, mini cucumbers, figs, and lots and lots of weeds along the edges of the electrified fence. My neighbor has the biggest patty pan squash I have ever seen - the size of a dinner plate! and oodles of spinach, bok choy, collards and sweet frying peppers. We traded our over abundance and that was wonderful! We're planning on getting together to see what we can plant on purpose next year to trade. It is still warm here in the South but expect it to get colder very soon -- it is October after all and supposed to be fall -- though we've had 90's all last week. Nancy |
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| I have most of my stuff out of the garden, but I do still have collard, mustard, and turnip greens; tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, lettuce, and green beans. I've been a canning fool the last few days because we're supposed to get a good frost Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday nights. I'm using up lots of green tomatoes, too. The greens should be okay, and I'm gong to cover a few things, but mostly I'll just let nature take it's course. Judi |
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| Jalapeno peppers, some sad tomatoes... but our greens are just getting started. Our temp was in the high 40's last night with more of the same tonight. jude |
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| Bell peppers, lots of them turning red. Butternut squash fruits that set late, going to hold them outside until frost [although that may be tomorrow night]. The immortal Jade bush snap beans, they just keep coming. Tomatoes, a few green ones still on the vines. Zucchini, almost dead of powdery mildew but still producing a fruit or two. Scallions From late summer planting: leaf lettuce, spinach, peas, snap peas - all pitiful, it was too hot for them. One apple tree half-picked and processed. One pear tree I'm trying not to think about. |
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| Weeds! |
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| ladydigger, You aren't too late---don't let those highly organized Amish make you feel bad. All those things on your list can take a bit of frost except the peppers and the tender herbs (such as dill, basil, cilantro), so you've got several weeks yet. I'd do the peppers first. I'm in a similar zone and similar situation---been dealing with tomatoes (and purchased peaches) and have ignored everything else. I'm going to pick all peppers, sweet and hot, as soon as I get home on Monday or Tuesday. I've seen the suggestion to pull the whole plant and hang it upside-down while the peppers finish ripening; I might try that! Don't have as much variety in my garden as you do but I do still have, other than green tomatoes and the peppers, - swiss chard Also want to put up from the farmers' stands: Zabby
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| (Actually zone 6 here.) I have coming along for fall, turnips, kale, collards, Asian radishes, savoy cabbages, komatsuma, red mustard greens, lettuces and escaroles, beets, carrots, parsley. Left from the summer garden are chard and some tomatoes and peppers. Sown for spring to overwinter and just coming up is spinach. The kale also usually overwinters and makes the earliest of spring greens with a tender delicious flush starting in late February. I'll pack the beets, carrots, and turnips with hay and store them right in the ground to dig over the winter. People give up on their gardens much too early and miss many weeks of fresh food. The fall garden is always the easiest and best garden of the year. |
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| Tons of tomatoes just starting to turn red. Small patch of chard. Carrots. Delicata squash. Vines are dying back, but I'm ignoring for now. A few sad zukes and cukes. Herbs, mint. Dug up the potatoes yesterday, picked bell and banana peppers, more to come. Broccoli SEED. Lazy, left the plants to flower and seed! I replanted lettuce, spinach and radishes 2 weeks ago, so those are coming along. No frost in the forecast......at least for now. Deanna |
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| Not much. I'm going to pull basil this week - only 3 or 4 plants - and dehydrate it. Not many green tomatoes left. I'll probably pick the remainder at the end of the week and can them. I'm guessing I'll get 6 or 7 pints. Lots of tomatillos. Need to research recipes so I can can some tomatillo salsa. I will easily get a peck of tomatillos. 3 or 4 eggplant left. We can eat it as we pick it. I'm still getting 3 or 4 squash a week - either patty pan or zuchini. Just enough so we can eat it as we pick it. Something ate all of my pea plants. And my fall sowing of spinach never sprouted. But my fall sowing of Pak Choi seems to be doing fine. And I think I have some lettuce out there that will be ready for picking soon. My goal for next year is to plan the fall garden a bit better. I had a good harvest this spring and summer. But the Fall harvest has been a bit lame - and all I can blame is my poor planning. |
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| Zabby - if you want apples for sauce, come over here! |
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| We got a pretty hard frost last night, so not much is left out there now, I went through yesterday and pulled the peppers, the beans and corn stalks went to the cattle and horses, I picked every butternut squash that looked like it might think about being ripe. I still have some cold tolerant things, like brussels sprouts and collards, some turnips and carrots still in the ground and a couple of heads of cabbage. And about 2 bushels of butternut squash in the garage on the floor, waiting to be baked, pureed and frozen and a dozen Sugar Pie pumpkins waiting to make it into the canner. Sometime after the wedding that will happen, only 12 days left to go and I still have a dress to hem.... Annie |
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| ltilton, Gosh, I'll be right over---I can trade you for tomatoes. And parsley! ;-p laceyvail, Right on! There's a great bit in Elliott Cole's book about four-season gardening in which he tells about being in France and visiting a well-known garden in late fall. The tour guide keeps telling him, "In the real season there is x and y growing here; it is too bad you missed it!" and Cole keeps saying, "But, look, there's some right there!" he saw food all over the garden but the owners overlooked it just because it wasn't at its peak.... Annie, Z |
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| That would be a good trade, Zabby. I had NO sauce tomatoes this year - total crop failure. otoh, I don't have any jars left to put them in if I had them - all full of applesauce and plums. |
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| Green tomatoes, sweet peppers, hot wax peppers, and tons of jalapeno peppers. Will likely do a big batch of pickled peppers and green tomato relish later in the week. The rest of the peppers will likely go in the freezer. Dave |
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- Posted by bumble_doodle Z5 CT (My Page) on Mon, Oct 4, 10 at 20:00
| Green tomatoes, potatoes and horseradish. Pulled the rest of the chile peppers and beans yesterday. |
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| Sweet Peppers Hot Peppers Eggplant Cherry Tomatoes Table Tomatoes Carrots Broccoli Beets Italian Flat Beans Brussels Sprouts Apples Raspberries Some of the above is in our greenhouse, and the rest is outside. |
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| How could I forget! Turnips |
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- Posted by growinidaho 4/5 (My Page) on Mon, Oct 4, 10 at 22:26
| Lots of carrots potatoes 15 or so sugar pies, I picked 26 yesterday a couple of watermelon a doz or so cantaloupe...sooo yummy a few bell peppers 9 tomato plants with various colors and some cherries several zucchini romaine green onions beets 6 or 7 cabbage and some melons that are yellow like lemons and ridges like cantaloupe (seeds given to me) and shaped like small footballs...anxious to try one! |
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| Maters Red Raspberries , 1 quart every day, yeah! Patty Pan Squash Taters Onions Broccoli Pulled all the Basil and sitting in a bucket 8 Sugar Baby Watermelons Small Pie Pumpkins Bell Peppers 1 Head Cauliflower to go Carrots |
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