2026 Garden

[buckbull]

 

[BigHornRam]

Tomatoes are starting to show some color. No frost in the forecast for the near future. Fingers crossed. Corn produced 50 cobs!


Peppers doing good.


Second planting of lettuce going strong. Had first parsnips last night for dinner. Ginger carrot soup for lunch today!


First years garden here has been a success. Learned a lot for next year.

 

[Jwill]

Been a good pepper season in VA.

 

[Jwill]

Decorative crop was pretty good too.

 

[IDFireLass]

Pulled the last 3 tomato plants. They just weren't doing much other than being there. Picked the bigger tomatoes off and put them in a box to ripen. I think the nights were just too cold and they stalled out. So I'm down to lettuce and the 3 crazy cucumber plants. I picked 22 cucumbers yesterday. Just going to let them go until or when it frost's. Still have to pick carrots and get them stored for the winter. We are going back into the 80's for the next 10 days. Crazy weather. I was totally really for fall and colder temps.

 

[Sask hunter]

Wife made 7 big jars of pickled carrots yesterday. Now to sort through these. Small ones I’ll cook tonight rest can stay in the fridge. Probably will be batching and freezing some carrots this week as the second half of this row has some monsters

 

[IDFireLass]

Dug and stored my carrots too, this morning. Down to leaf lettuce and 3 crazy cucumbers and they are still producing like crazy.

 

[Straight Arrow]

Returning from camping trip found garden carrot plat all torn up and carrots all consumed ... with a pile of bear poop nearby at the garden fence ... 'insult to injury!

 

[IDFireLass]

That's what you get for going camping especially this year. I picked 15 cucumbers today. I'm expecting to see a bear down here in the valley. My carrots got picked and put away in storage yesterday.

 

[beagle001]

My wife and I were just talking about how we didn’t take many garden pictures this summer. Kind of sad about it, now. Had wayyy too many tomatoes again, we gave hundreds away to friends. We made 40 pints of salsa of varying spicy-ness. Definitely the best pepper year we’ve ever had.

First pic is almost all of our pumpkins and gourds. They’re some of my favorite things to grow.
Second pic is our Packer zucchini… we planted yellow and green next to each other and they hybridized and we picked 15-20 that were goofy like this.

 

[Pucky Freak]

 

[Sask hunter]

Wrapped up in the garden. Now just to plant my fall garlic and I’m done outside. Been busy beaching and freezing beets as we have to many to eat before they will start going soft

 

[Straight Arrow]

Gardening season is over ... 12 October 2026.

 

[BigHornRam]

My wife picked a couple boxes of green tomatoes a couple days ago to ripen indoors. She plans on digging up the rest of the carrots this coming weekend. The parsnips will get mulched in and we will dig some up as needed. A little frosty weather makes them taste better anyway.