Its About Over

[jal_ut]

Went out and looked through the garden. Found some red tomatoes, some cucumbers, a zucchini, and a few ears of corn.
There is still a few onion bulbs. I guess the next thing is to drag out the tiller and till it all in and let it snow?

[digitS']

Three mornings in the thirties last week. Frost on a high roof only about 50yards from the big veggie garden on two of those mornings.

I stopped at a park about 200 yards from the little veggie garden on one of those mornings. There was frost on the lawn there!

It was only 40°f this morning but a little rain is supposed to be coming in overnight. After that, a warming spell has been promised by the Weather Service!

Hey! We might make it to October and, for sure, Fall ... tomorrow .

A good picking of beans came of the mid-July planting. I don't know what their hangup was! I have never missed on a second sowing, mid-July ... except maybe that time when it froze in August, but I don't remember much from that time other than the disappointment.

Still picking sweetcorn. Yes, I have a new-to-me SV4058NV white onion. (I wish they would come up with a more "appetizing" name than SV4058NV. Shoot.) Anyway, most of them are still upright. It's okay. Maybe it indicates a good storage variety .

Some of the pumpkins are still green ... there are some nice, although green, tomatoes ... some on vines with no ripe fruit yet! I better not be inviting those varieties back .

Steve

[PaulF]

It is coming to an end for the season soon. Ten of the thirty tomato plants will get pulled in the next few days. The green beans and cucumbers are gone. Still we are getting twenty or thirty tomatoes per day and should continue that until frost. Nothing in the foreseeable future but this is Nebraska...it may freeze tomorrow. 90s predicted through next week.

[jal_ut]

Some of my pumpkins are still green. The corn is all done. I pulled all the onions. Tonight it decided to rain like heck, and a little black and white critter decided he wanted to make my garage his safe haven.

[digitS']

I neglected to mention the late cabbage and the plantings of greens.

Even the first sowing of Verde de Taglio chard is holding up but the 2nd planting of chard in July is also nicely available. Whether it might survive a move into the greenhouse remains to be seen.

There is plenty of bok choy ... I don't know how many times I sowed that seed - April, May, July, & August. The August bok choy looks like it can be transplanted and should be available for December stir-fries. That final sowing of seed is kinda tricky and very dependent on late season weather. Too much warmth right now might make for too much growth to hold up to transplanting. Mid-August gave me little confidence until right now that it would even grow enough but, obviously, early and mid during August hedges my bets on stir-fries.

Soon, I'll be sprinkling seed in a greenhouse bed for February and March bok choy. Getting it outta the way in March, I'll need the furnace on for all those tender, warm-season plant starts in 2017 ...

Steve

[jal_ut]

Have a tree loaded with plums. Picked a bucketful and am cooking them down to make juice. There are some apples that need to be picked too.

[jal_ut]

Rained all afternoon then the sun came out and with it a rainbow.

[Meatburner]

Double rainbow! Very beautiful!!

[gumbo2176]

And here I am still seeing 90+ degree temperatures for at least a few more days, then they are saying the mid to upper 80's for a while. I put in some fall stuff and am having to water twice a day just to keep them from wilting into the soil.

I am going to wait until mid October before planting lettuce, kale, chard and other salad greens since they are pretty delicate in the beginning, but I do have cucumbers, pole beans and some hot pepper plants that are thriving right now and can't wait until the cucs and beans start coming in. They are climbing my trellises like crazy right now and full of flowers, so it shouldn't be long.

This is getting to be the time of year I really enjoy getting out into the garden. It just needs to get down into the 70's or lower daily and it will be ideal.

[Taiji]

Here the squashes are mostly picked; getting lots of end of the season tomatoes. Corn is done here too. Still pulling some beets and huge turnips. Have a winter crop of chard and kale going. Am working my way thru the garden fluffing the beds up and planting cover crops. (clover, winter rye, annual rye)

James, in the beautiful picture of the rainbow, was just curious, what is the green in the farmer's fields in the distance? Would that be alfalfa, or winter wheat?

[jal_ut]

Alfalfa.

Just walked through the garden. There are some tomatoes, cabbage, broccoli, pumpkins, squash, and one cantaloupe left. I saw that there had been an ear or three of corn left, that some critter pulled down and demolished.

[bobbyg]

Nice to be here in CA, it is supposed to be 100deg tomorrow.

[imafan26]

Nice to be in Hawaii, but not now. Rain and tropical storms skirting around us, the mosquitoes are out, the nights are muggy so the termites and ants are swarming. August and September are the hottest months of the year. The stores have Halloween and Christmas decorations up at the same time, but it really doesn't feel like Christmas yet. I will be glad to see this mugginess go anytime now.

[jal_ut]

Clear Blue skies, 57 degrees, just a very mild breeze, What a beautiful day to be out enjoying autumn. The fall colors are coming on the maples up on the mountain. The bees are flying, but I don't see many blossoms for them to work.

[jal_ut]

Today clear blue skies, a bit breezy, I went out and planted the garlic. Let 'er snow!