The garden is still trundling along, but it’s slowing way down. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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 jalape\u00c3\u00b1os et al we got last year. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading