Clearing out

So, today I pulled out the last summer plants: all the peas, beans and tomatoes. Hoed the greens and lettuces. I like this fall gardening-the plants don't seem to need much help and I'm learning to like the taste of greens and kale. 

More fall gardening

A week ago I planted 9 cabbage plants, a row of kale and a row of purple top turnips. Still got tomatoes on the vine, so that's nice. It's still pretty warm for early October. Today is cloudy and humid with a breeze that makes the low 80s temps not too bad. The cotton plants have lots of bolls and are still blooming. I passed some in the field that were already open.

I've come out to the garden to gather our hardware and hoses and to hoe around the new plants. I'll have to trust God to provide the water now.

Fall garden

Spent about 3.5 hours in the garden. Tilled where the corn was. If you're standing at the HHappy place sign you'll see 8 rows. Left to right are: a row of beets, 1/2 row cosmic carrots 1/2 row parsnips, row of radishes, row of romaine, row of mixed lettuces and 2 rows of spinach. They are small, but it's a start!

We planted purple hull peas....

....and this is what we got! The hulls were definitely purple but the peas inside were always a surprise! I guess some crazy cross pollinating went on to produce this. Next year we buy seeds instead of saving.

Welcome to the jungle

One thing I will not do next year is allow plants to grow with wild abandon out of the compost dirt. What a mess we have. Next year the ones we want to keep need to be transplanted.

Corn

Not so good this year. TOO MANY WORMS.

The good news is we are finally picking tomatoes and eggplant.

The garden likes RAIN!

(Post from 7/6/13)
A pretty day in the garden. There are a few green beans, cucumbers and squash. Lots of green tomatoes. Starting to get buds on the peas. 639 has got lots and lots and lots of weeds. Spent a long time hacking at them.

The sunflowers are from Wilson's plot.