What's in your garden this fall?
 

I have finally finished planting all the veggies, pansies, violas, snapdragons and ornamental cabbages and got all the mulch down. This year I've planted mostly old favorites but also a couple of new things.

"Oxheart" carrots
"Morris Heading" collards
"Black Palm Tree" kale
"Perfection Savoy" cabbage
"Giant Winter" spinach
"Baby Oakleaf" lettuce
"Little Gem" lettuce
"Tom Thumb" lettuce-new variety for me this year
"Grey Griselle" shallots-new variety this year

It's been very warm here up until a couple of days ago and now we are beginning to cool off a bit. How are things in your fall/winter garden?

Peppers and leeks are the only vegetables left in the garden; there are flowers in the yard, but everything is just waiting for the first frigid blast to turn the entire garden white.

Oh, for a winter garden somewhere besides indoors. But wait, there is hope. An offer has been made on a home in the Vero Beach, Florida area. The home owner (the one who has not made a mortgage payment for more than a year) has accepted the offer and now we wait word from the bank. If things go right, I will have to learn how to grow tomatoes in the dead of winter.

i just set out broccoli,cauliflower,tyee spinach in my
megatainers i hope i get good results as this is my
first grow in them (megatainers), i will post later in
the winter season,happy gardeneing.

les

Still harvesting tomatoes - a lot of them. Tomorrow I will probably pick at least 30 lbs. Broccoli, kale, a few zukes that may make it, jalapenos, parsnips - waiting for that 1st hard freeze on these, tons of basil. Still haven't had even a frost and doesn't look like any time soon. Mums, salvia strata blue, marigolds, zinnias. Possibly a fall garden would have made it this year. But on the bright side - it is only 5 months until we can plant peas and the rhubarb is coming up again. The downside is I am still watering like crazy -it is bone dry, tried digging today and the soil was just powder. piegirl

beets and carrots, the former ready to harvest and the latter is an unknown until pulled, cabbages, broccoli, lettuce, swiss chard, a cayenne pepper plant and 1 sun gold that is probably not going to produce any ripe tomatoes. by mid october it's pretty much over here.

Been a few weeks, but planted
strawberries
garlic
green onions
spanish white onion
ruby red onion
butter crunch lettuce
Broccoli
califlower
snow peas (bush)
green beans (bush) will die when it gets cold but its my first veg garden ever.
Habaneros are huge and plentiful in my wine barrels. Gonna put PVC row cover for this winter, crossing my fingers.


romaine lettuce

I will not be planting any edible winter crops this year (too much work on my plate :( )- but I still have the following crops growing and producing, as we have not had a frost yet, and our nights have been very warm so far in October:
[LIST][*]cucumbers (in a greenhouse)[*]winter squash[*]sweet and hot peppers (in cold frames)[*]cabbage[*]cauliflower[*]rutabagas[*]kohlrabi[*]radish (both summer and winter)[*]beets[/LIST]
Tania

My tomatoes still producing a few fruit - in fact, some of the varieties that were bland earlier in the year (e.g. Stupice, Mule Team, Druzba) taste very good now. I Also have one moschata squash still on the vine - Musquee de Provence.

New stuff for fall:

radishes (Cheriette and Valentine)
i'itoi onions
garlic - about 100 sq. ft. going in the ground tomorrow; 8-10 cloves each of several dozen varieties.

Good stuff, guys! Sounds yummy! I have tried beets and leeks but never had great luck with them. Peas grow well here in the spring but not so great in the fall. Not sure why.

Paul--good luck with your Florida house deal! Sounds great!

Fortyonenorth--are you anywhere near Clinton county? I have a lot of family there.

Just harvested the last of the leeks - that leaves only beets, kale, swiss chard, kohlrabi and some collards to deal with...

[QUOTE=shelleybean;186677]Fortyonenorth--are you anywhere near Clinton county? I have a lot of family there.[/QUOTE]

I think Clinton county is about 100 miles south of us - we're right at the tip of Lake Michigan. Pretty part of the state down there.

I picked the rest of my tomatoes yesterday, both ripe and green ones. I will turn the ripe ones into tomato chutney this weekend unless someone comes up with a recipe for canning tomato pepper jam. I also picked my last zucchini and my winter squash.

Today I planted my garlic and my brussel sprouts.

The rain is coming and it might not stop for a while but when it does I will plant more lettuce seeds and grow that through the winter unless it gets very cold. Folks are predicting a cold winter here in Portland this year!

I've got 22 Fall tomato plants growing and 12 EarthTainers of Snow Peas. Picked my first Pink Berkeley Tie Dye a few days ago, with Indian Stripe, Dona, Big Beef, Goose Creek, Purple Haze and several Wild Boar Farms varieties about 4 to 6 feet tall. Lots of developing fruit that should last me through Christmas Day.

Snow Peas produced throughout the Winter here last Season, and hopefully, we will have another mild one this year. I really like the Snow Peas in stir-fry.:love:

Raybo

Annual rye grass and soon crimson clover.
The garden is retired for a while and will be moved to a new spot with raised beds.

Worth

Given the severe drought conditions and heat, I have nothing this fall. Haven't even cleared and tilled for layaway yet....