blissful
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I'm in zone 4, and one of these nights it will fall in temperatures to freezing.
My late planting of lettuce is coming up perfectly now. I had a wonderful sandwich last night with new lettuce.
The chard is beautiful and I'll harvest it any day now for a casserole dish with white beans.
The tomatoes have been coming strong for more than a month and there's at least another couple hundred green ones out there. I'll wait to the last minute before taking them off the vine.
Peppers are almost all harvested, chopped for pizza, frozen.
Some crops didn't do so well this year, so eggplant, turnips, beets--not much to show for them. Corn--one good meal and we don't know what we are doing with corn.
The melons are too small to harvest, we just pulled the cucumbers, we still have some winter squash ripening.
The garlic won't go into the garden for next year, until October and that is fast approaching. Herbs are doing okay in pots so far.
Harvest menu: BLT's tonight, vegetable soup very soon, tomato bread salad, fried green tomatoes, sushi rolled in seaweed w/cucumber slivers, dill, cream cheese, pickled ginger.
Anyone else approaching fall and working on their gardens?
My late planting of lettuce is coming up perfectly now. I had a wonderful sandwich last night with new lettuce.
The chard is beautiful and I'll harvest it any day now for a casserole dish with white beans.
The tomatoes have been coming strong for more than a month and there's at least another couple hundred green ones out there. I'll wait to the last minute before taking them off the vine.
Peppers are almost all harvested, chopped for pizza, frozen.
Some crops didn't do so well this year, so eggplant, turnips, beets--not much to show for them. Corn--one good meal and we don't know what we are doing with corn.
The melons are too small to harvest, we just pulled the cucumbers, we still have some winter squash ripening.
The garlic won't go into the garden for next year, until October and that is fast approaching. Herbs are doing okay in pots so far.
Harvest menu: BLT's tonight, vegetable soup very soon, tomato bread salad, fried green tomatoes, sushi rolled in seaweed w/cucumber slivers, dill, cream cheese, pickled ginger.
Anyone else approaching fall and working on their gardens?