I harvested spinach, green beans and radishes tonight.  My fall garden is amazingly bountiful this year.  I planted green beans a little bit late but I thought if I was lucky and there were no early frosts I could easily get some beans.  So far I have picked them twice and there is plenty more to come if the frost just stays away….We don't usually have a really hard freeze till around the end of the year but you never know.  It was a brutally hot summer and my tomatoes just fizzled out  but from experience, I knew if I could keep the plants in good shape, they would continue producing so tomatoes are loaded down.  I get a few most every day and before the first freeze I will pick them all as we did last year and we'll have fresh tomatoes till Feb….My greens, kale, collards, spinach, mustard, beets, mustard and chard are all beautiful and the peppers are still going from the spring plants.

I am your  typical little old lady so when we moved here, My husband had a worker build me garden beds and I have a stool for sitting to weed or harvest…It works really good for me….

So what did you do in your garden today?

Peppers are heat lovers and will do well until the first heavy frost or freeze and then they are done.  I have already picked mine and they are still flowering and producing more …It was such a brutal summer that they are actually doing better now than earlier…but Peppers won't survive the cold.

Sheryl, I wanted to do that too since I grow around 150 roses!!  Rose hips are loaded with vitamin C and are good for you…if you don't spray with chemicals.  I try not to spray chemicals and use stuff that won't kill my good bugs and honey bees that seem to love my rose blooms.

Deb

I pick a trash bag full of mustard greens saturday and put them in the freezer.  Washing, stemming and getting them ready is a pain in the bunns but I like to have a stash of greens in the freezer to eat after the big freeze hits the greens.  Our season is pretty long and starts pretty early with things like greens so it doesn't take to many bags to get us through.

My next project will be beets.  I brought the rest of the Sweet Potatoes in on Saturday too.

Hey Knittlin…I'm pretty much a newbie here but love reading Suzanne…Don't know about this weather coming up.  2 inches of snow….I hope I can manage to stay off these roads cause Texans will kill you with their vehicles when it snows. 

Garden doing rally good and yes to all the fall stuff.  Lots and lots of garlic planted.

I ended up doing some light pruning on my raspberry plants yesterday and also hoed around them, making sure not to take out any of the babies!!  I  have several friends that are excited about get some to plant in their gardens.  It looks nice out today, so I may prep my one, lone little flower bed in front of my house.  It looks like their may be some dianthus coming back up, so I will be careful not to take them out by accident.  This year, as money is tight, I am planting more dianthus and also some thumbelina zinnia seeds in that flower bed.  The seeds packets were 8/$1, so you can't go wrong.  I also need to cut down the old morning glory vines from last year and reseed the area.  They are gorgeous—a bright hot pinkish purple.  It is the gift that keeps on giving—the original plant was a mother's day gift from when my oldest DD was in second grade—she is in sixth now.

Spent my last day off planting some tomato seeds to start indoors. Some people may think it is late to start them but it's about 7 weeks til last frost around here and if I start them too soon, they get so leggy. I started some Demidov that someone recommended for container gardening and some Stupice that my sister will take to plant at her house (bigger yard).

Every seed I bought this year, so far, was heirloom. I started some cucumbers, melons, green peppers and hot peppers. My sister will take most of the plants, then we have to learn how to save the seeds (providing I get anything to grow, last year and the year before were awfully wet and nothing grew well, except peas and lettuce.

Other than that, my pots of herbs that I drag indoors every year, are greening up. The rosemary is blooming, I never had one bloom before. And my lemon verbena made it through. It's always hard to tell 'cause the leaves fall off and I always think it's dead. The chives always look good. They're tough.

Oh, and outside my oregano I had divided last year is coming up in different spots, my lavender shoots might have taken root and my lovage is coming up in the middle of what is going to be my pea patch this year. Hope peas like lovage.