Hello and Happy Thursday! Yesterday when I woke up it was a delightful 45 degrees outside and let me tell you Bob, fall has arrived here in Maine. I checked the forecast for this weekend and it looks like today will be our last warm day {mid 70’s} and then we are headed straight into the 60’s for daytime temps and upper 30’s / low 40’s for evening temperatures.Ā Now that’s my kind of weather! š
How is you garden doing these days? Our’s is on it’s way out.
Nearly all the tomato plants are toast {except the Sun Golds, they’re still hanging in there} and the basil, cucumbers and herbs had to all be pulled from the garden beds.
The HH took a picture of our garden plot with his drone and it looks so empty. š All that’s left in the garden boxes are 2 tomato plants, 2 rows of beets, some lettuce and radish seeds I just planted and a few pepper plants {that really need to be pulled but I am holding out hope}.
In the ground are the raspberry plants, brussels sprouts {those won’t be harvested until the first frost} asparagus plants and a row of pepper plants.
Mel and her friends didn’t make it. {Next year I think I’ll try starting the watermelon seeds indoors in May to give them a head start}.
They sure were cute though…
The rhubarb is calling it quits too.
And the pumpkins are beginning to ripen on the vine.
Yesterday I walked around the garden and counted all the squash we have growing in the backyard.
Currently we have 3 sugar pie pumpkins, 4 warty pumpkins {pictured above}…
14 butternuts {wahooo!}
And 1 giant Cinderella pumpkin {and a baby one too but I’m not sure it will ripen in time}. I think I also spotted a hubbard squash as well.
Yesterday’s harvest. Small, but colorful. š
How is YOUR garden doing these days? Are you done growing for the year, or are your plants still producing? Curious minds want to know.
Wishing you all the best on this lovely September morning.
Peace Out Girl Scouts,
~Mavis
Nancy says
Mavis, have you thought about a cover crop in your garden beds?
Trava Olivier says
Busily harvesting and canning carrots…..28 pints so far and thinking another 12-15 jars with what is left in the garden! Only pumpkins after that to harvest. My daughter and I tried to count them a couple of evenings ago. Vines are dying back some and we think we located 30! Some are orange and some a small and green and may not
ripen in time! They will look lovely scattered about our acreage for the Fall season! Our weather has been a bit of a roller coast in southwest Minnesota. It was in the uppers 40s for highs last week then 87 on Tuesday and only in the 60s for highs predicted today! Haven’t had a frost but did have 36 degree low so it is coming!
Peg says
Will you please give some more info on growing pumpkins? Does a person need a lot of space? Iād love to grow warty pumpkins, they are SO expensive to buy.
Margo says
September is our hottest month, so temps in the upper 90ās today. Waiting to plant my fall garden till next week when it cools into the 80ās. I am still getting herbs, a little zucchini, and the only sugar pie pumpkin that survived is turning orange. Tomatoes are done. Sprouting broccoli and cilantro indoors. Eggplant is maturing and so is my replanted celery. Trying for one more zucchini planting. Envious of your temps and soon to be beautiful fall foliage, Mavis.
Joely says
Still growing lettuce, spinach, mustard, endive, frisee, radishes, carrots and snap peas. Our tomatoes are done except for the sungold and sweet 100s. There are a few lingering cucumbers, peppers and eggplants. some small beets and hopefully some chard. I’ll start growing hydroponically inside soon and will clean out the cold frame to plant some overwintered greens: spinach, mache, mizuna and tatsoi.
Marti says
I’m in zone 4–still harvesting tomatoes in abundance, green beans, cranberry beans, lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, beets and carrots. The vines on the pumpkins and squash are too lush yet to see what is hiding in there. Hoping that the brussel sprouts develop but I am doubtful. There is still something to can daily.
Elise in the SF Bay Area says
About that Cinderella – We had one last year (our first), and it WOULD NOT ripen. Finally, about 1 week before Halloween, i asked at the local nursery, and they said to cut it off the vine. THEN it finally started turning orange, but it still took almost until Thanksgiving to really ripen. I kept turning it to give different angles to the sun too. It only ripened in the areas that were facing the sun. Odd, but yeah…
Mimi says
Smoke and ash from the wildfires did the tender veggies in, plus we had to evacuate for a week so there was no watering, but the winter squash are good! I’ll take any little victory I can.
Christine Hagen says
Well our garden had tuckered out from the heat. There are not a lot of crops that can tolerate our nighttime lows in the 70s. We have been harvesting okra, peppers, butterbeans and some herbs like basil. These will last until our first serious frost-typically the end of October. However, we just planted all sorts of lettuces, kale, chard, turnips, mustard greens, carrots, beets, and snow peas, plus herbs like dill, cilantro and parsley. Next week we will be transplanting broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, and Brussels sprouts. In October we will plant onions and garlic.