A few weeks back we had several days of heavy rain with the first hard frost forecast for the season, so we went up to the garden to see what was to see. These are pictures of our two plots in mid harvest. We found that many of the tomatoes had begun to ripen and a mild frost at some point had weakened the plants enough that some of the fruit was falling off.
We collected 83 pounds of produce that day, mostly in tomatoes, and made our first batch of awesome tomato goodness. We went back up to the garden before the big frost was expected and harvested every green tomato we could get. These we divided up with TJ and we loaded our bounty onto a 4x8 sheet of hard board in the garage to ripen. We also put up a small table on the front porch and loaded it with plenty of green fruit.
Here's a peek at some of the cool stuff we grew. You'll see lots of tomatoes, but there are two kinds of squash shown here and a reddish husked breed of sweet corn that turned out surprisingly well. Slugs, centipedes and mammalian garden varmints got into our potatoes pretty bad this year, so our crop left a bit to be desired. We ate several batches of beets but lost the last one to the voles.
A few weeks back we had several days of heavy rain with the first hard frost forecast for the season, so we went up to the garden to see what was to see. These are pictures of our two plots in mid harvest. We found that many of the tomatoes had begun to ripen and a mild frost at some point had weakened the plants enough that some of the fruit was falling off.
We collected 83 pounds of produce that day, mostly in tomatoes, and made our first batch of awesome tomato goodness. We went back up to the garden before the big frost was expected and harvested every green tomato we could get. These we divided up with TJ and we loaded our bounty onto a 4x8 sheet of hard board in the garage to ripen. We also put up a small table on the front porch and loaded it with plenty of green fruit.
Here's a peek at some of the cool stuff we grew. You'll see lots of tomatoes, but there are two kinds of squash shown here and a reddish husked breed of sweet corn that turned out surprisingly well. Slugs, centipedes and mammalian garden varmints got into our potatoes pretty bad this year, so our crop left a bit to be desired. We ate several batches of beets but lost the last one to the voles.
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Those "slugs", AKA Colorado Potato Beetle larvai, are going down in '09!
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