Fall is here!
Though the official date is twenty days away yet, the season has arrived. Sunday afternoon I could feel the difference in just a few short hours: the humidity was gone, and the temperature had lowered. I have always loved Fall! The last few days of early Fall have been wonderful.
In keeping with the time of year, I’ve planted my first bed of fall crops. In my top bed I’ve planted 21 beets, 12 “Russian Red” Kale (the ragged sort you might find in a store), and have started Broccoli and another Cucumber in pots. Depending on what goes on with my tomato bed I may wind up with a whole other bed to use.
My oddball roma/cherry tomato plant has produced, seemingly by a miracle, some two pounds of fruit over the last week and a half. Yes, virtually all the tomatoes on the plant ripened at the exact same time. Err, I take that back (since I just weighed them to see)… the basket I gathered yesterday was 1lb 5oz in weight, and we had over 10oz already indoors. I think there are several pounds of ripening tomatoes still on the plant!
It’s getting late enough that I’m hoping that my lone pepper plant will fruit; it is almost the size for flowers. Out of nearly six attempts to start the plants from seeds, only one bore a tiny sprout and that was almost by accident. So, it’s been a very slow two months while I await peppers; it would seem that most other gardeners, and farmers here, have had trouble with peppers this year.
What have you planted in your garden for your autumn planting?
