2025 Garden!

[Sask hunter]

Froze her a few days ago so that finished off our beans and almost everything else. Although it looks like the zucchini and the squash may come back. Been busy picking beans, ripping the vines off the fence, blanching and freezing beans. About 3 gallons left to process and I’m done thank god! Sick of seeing beans right now lol. Now onto picking tomatoes. The plants died in the frost but the fruit seems fine. But with a cooler summer I didn’t have a single tomato ripen on the vine all summer so I will have to ripen all of them inside

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Wind Gypsy, how do you find anything? What a nice looking place! Amazing when you don't live in the high desert what you can grow and what a green world looks like.

Thank you! We live on 6+ acres but its heavily wooded and steep so very little "yard" space for a garden unless we clear some trees. The garden is pretty packed and the dang pumpkins and squash vines go every which way so it is tough to navigate at times. Has been a wet year, we're about 10" of rain over average this year and the garden has only been watered once or twice all summer.

I am jealous of the space in your green houses!

 

[IDFireLass]

I've lived on a hillside not as bad as yours though.
Vine things get planted outside. I've done cucumbers the last 2 summers in the big greenhouse. It worked but they should really be outside. The wind is the killer here. Can't grow tomatoes or peppers outside. Everything else I can do.
You really need self pollenating things in greenhouses or pollenate yourself. I've tried it and haven't had much luck.
Only thing I've found that I really can't grow is squash they take to long to grow and ripen. This greenhouse thing I'm still learning. Always live in lower elevation with good soil and long growing season. I've had to learn fast and remember what works and what doesn't. It's always a learning process up here.

 

[buckbull]

Buckeyes are not a garden crop but always a welcome sign to see them on the ground as a reminder that fall is right around the corner.

 

[Dave N]

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Buckeyes are not a garden crop but always a welcome sign to see them on the ground as a reminder that fall is right around the corner.

But they suck when you have to cut grass!

 

[buckbull]

But they suck when you have to cut grass!

Lol. Almost as bad as those sweet gums.

 

[np307]

Summer's over and so is the okra. Garden looks bare now without their towering presence. Once garlic is available at the garden supply, it'll go in the okra bed and then all the fall planting will be done. Brassicas are looking pretty good despite my battle with cabbage moths. Peppers still producing well.

 

[buckbull]

Ended

Ended up mixing up a sweet picke juice and canned the peppers. I still have tomatos and zucchini blooming but im pretty much done with the garden. Time to get ready for archery season.

 

[Sixmile]

Best garden I've ever had. Still a couple bushel of carrots and potatoes to harvest. Tomatoes are still going strong and hopefully a few sweet meat squash will be ready in a week or so.

 

[brymoore]

We had our first frost this morning. Garden is officially over although I do need to clear a few beds and weed a few of the permanent beds. Springs easier if you weed in the fall. We had pulled the remaining veggies last week. Green tomatoes, squash, peppers and pumpkins. Most of the beds were cleared a few weeks ago and already have a green growth of Austrian peas as a cover crop.

Tomatoes will ripen and slowly be canned over the next month.



Peppers prepared for freezing. Wife made pepper jelly which she really likes. She was walking around the house naming ways to use the jelly like Bubba Gump.



I also fought the bees this weekend. I grabbed four boxes of honey. I estimate around 100 pounds worth. This was after two smaller honey grabs this summer. I’ve given my neighbors and friends honey. I might try selling a few quarts.



It was a better gardening year than I expected. A few late plantings ended up better than expected. Wife estimates we eat 70% of our yearly vegetables from our garden. We still buy a few odds and ends, mostly asparagus and salad veggies during the winter.

On a sad note, our sauerkraut failed this year. Two years in a row. Ugh.

 

[np307]

Brassicas doing well. Tropical rain bands helped out a good bit. Collards and chard dont look great but the cabbage and the broccoli are looking good. One broccoli already starting to head. Peppers also still humming along.

 

[WildWill]

Gonna have a bumper crop of sweetie pie pumpkins a few have started turning orange. The things have kinda taken over even climbing the trees to make what my kids are calling our "Halloween Christmas tree". Besides some pumpkin pies at Thanksgiving plan on making baby food with the rest. My peas on the other hand haven't fared as well. First I let my daughter and the neighbor boy plant them and they didn't do a very good job ended up with 80%of the seeds on one side of the raised bed. Then there's my mom's dog whi while visiting jumped in the bed crushing more then half of what was growing. I'll get some peas but was really hoping to can up a bunch for baby food. If I loose anymore I'll probably just pull them and put in garlic and onions.

 

[IDFireLass]

As of today the whole garden will be done. Pulled carrots last week. Going to pull the green tomatoes off and pull the plants. Not enough sun to really ripen the tomatoes. Running the heater of a night is okay but can't keep it up. Major cold coming in this weekend. It's time will have tomatoes to eat for a while.

 

[buckbull]

I went out to pick some tomatoes for lunch and ended up bringing back a bunch of peppers too. All these from 2 banana and 3 bell pepper plants. I told myself i was done with the garden and went and did this. Must be what a crack addiction is like.

 

[brymoore]

Cleaned the remaining frosted boxes today. The garden provided one last pick!

Artichokes are going strong. They’ll survive light frosts. I will cut them back and tent them for the winter soon.

Austrian pea cover crop took. I still have some weeding to do in the garden but otherwise we’re done for the year.

 

[IDFireLass]

Whether a person wanted it or not the gardens would be over with today. It's snowing then raining this raining snow. Holding right at 34*. I'm so glad I'm finally ahead of the game.

 

[CRJR45]

Planting season is just starting down here .
We put the Strawberries back out , the few that survived the heat anyway.
But we have Bananas for the first time and a baby Pineapple . The Cherry tree is looking happy !

First nice day we’ve had after ten days of rain, 86 with a nice breeze .

 

[IDFireLass]

Well we don't have to worry about hurricanes. LOL

 

[JShane]

Well we don't have to worry about hurricanes. LOL

just for that I'm posting pictures of fall tomatoes down here.

 

[JShane]

And Basil