The dahlias are happy, and the grasshoppers are easily seen. These are both signs that autumn is in the air.
We’ve harvested the last of the beans until next summer.
We’ll pull the cucumber plants on Monday. Time to start planting the winter cover crop in their place.
As you’ve noticed, zucchini production is trending downward. Zucchini has been productive this summer, but now we’re harvesting about half the daily total we harvested a month ago.
We have more tomatoes and peppers to harvest (including these super productive sweet cayennes) but in more reasonable amounts.
We’ve had a surprisingly good melon year. When we planted in spring, I was very skeptical due to the late rains and cold temperatures. We will harvest the last melons and charentais in the next week.
What is upcoming? Potatoes, both sweet and fingerling. We’ve cut the water to the fingerling potatoes, so the skin hardens, and they store better. I suspect they won’t last very long, considering how much everyone likes them. We’re leaving sweet potatoes in the ground into October, so they get as large as possible.
This is the size of the celeriac. We’re continuing to water the celeriac, so it grows nicely in the next few weeks. We have a good supply this year.
Why do small hot peppers take so much longer to ripen? I don’t know. But we have “Trinidad Scorpion,” and “Bhut Jolokia” (aka ghost pepper). We also have a mild pepper called “Habanada.” There will be much fanfare when we bring them inside.
Come on out to the garden and see what else we have growing.
