Month: October 2019

End of October

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There is still a lot of food in the garden. We want to lay out the rows and paths, but may be forced to work around these crops.

A late season borage
Comfrey after 2 or 3 cuttings
Two year old scallions – should I let them keep going?
Broccoli rabe – food for the bees
Little spinach plants growing among the self seeded scallions
A binful of horseradish roots to process
A rainbow of chard
Red Russian kale
Escarole
Salanova lettuce – Red Butter
Turkish Rocket
Parsnip patch
Beets at various stages
Second succession of carrots. Not pictured: first succession.
Dazzling blue kale – lacinato. After a rough start, it grew big and handsome. Sharing with green caterpillars.
Late pea blossoms from fall planting. Will we get peas?
Kale in the background, peas growing on cattle panel. A patch of annual rye grass in the middle.

Also:

  • Herbs: parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
  • Community garden: more onions, leeks, and a fennel being allowed to go to seed.
  • Fruit yard: a potato patch not harvested yet.

Fall and winter greens

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I am enjoying these beds of greens very much. They are lush and trouble-free. No damage from bugs or frost or drought. No need to water as we haven’t closed up the hoophouse yet.

Wonder how they will do as cold weather sets in, if it does.

From top: arugula, escarole, lettuces, spinach, chard, kale
From top: green onions, claytonia, mizuna, tatsoi, carrots, Salanova lettuce. And a sunflower snuck in.
Closeup: spinach and lettuces
Closeup: onions, claytonia, mizuna

First frost

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October 3, first frost this year. We covered the tomatoes after harvesting many of them. The squash leaves seemed the most damaged.

Sage in herb beds showing some frost. Autumn joy sedum planted this summer and coneflower transplanted yesterday.
Tomatoes under tarps on a frosty morning.