The garden is still trundling along, but it’s slowing way down.
The back garden just has a few beet greens (going on the assumption that there are no actual beets). Next weekend I should pick them all and then pull the weeds and dump in compost.
In the front, the tomatoes are still producing. I picked two that were turning yellow along with a few green ones in the hope that they’d ripen off the vine and the squirrels wouldn’t get them, but they aren’t doing much. We did get half a red tomato that had ripened on the plant after something took a bite out of it. Someone mentioned that squirrels will eat green tomatoes for the moisture in dry weather, which could explain why they’ve been so much worse this year.
The red bell pepper that got chomped to the ground twice before I put the pot on a platform has two peppers on it, still green. The anaheim pepper has given us a whole two peppers all year–big change from the ridiculous amount of jalapeños et al we got last year.
I’ve picked all the dill seeds and am starting to get fennel seeds. We still have fresh fennel, basil, and chives. And mint, which is already spreading a little. I keep tossing chive seeds in that corner, too, so if I’m lucky next spring weeds won’t be as big a problem as usual.
I planted radishes and lettuce a few weeks ago. The radishes all came up, but there’s not much lettuce. We’ll see how long they survive. None of the radishes I planted earlier made it to radish-hood before succumbing to squirrel digging.