Anybody got a good fall garden going?

[canadamike]

The peas are gone, the plants are still alive but the peas themselves have frozen and thawed, lettuce is just fine but we seem to have had our quota, we are more into slaw now, and I still have 6-8 cabbages left, along with loads of carrots that are oh so sweet!!

I let the rutabagas be taken over by the weeeeeeeeeeds in the new field, my back got unionized and went in strike, I have loads of these white and green chinese radishes with red meat, hmmm, delicious, lots of chicory and swiss chard, I can't even look at them anymore (fed up) the moschatas are all in, so are the only 2 maximas I had, they are some blue/gray and were given to me by somebody from Tomodori I think, I just don't remember the name, like for the radishes, it should come back after I spend a couple of weeks sleeping 36 hours a day...

At my age, exhausted like I am with the move, some construction, the HUGE harvest (no help at all even if I'll feed many families with taters and maters and... ) and the work, you know, the one bringing in money, memory is the second thing to fail, and the first one is none of your business and no, it's not that...

[Jim]

no kidding plus I didn't have to build them, just fill them up.

[Alan]

We are now harvesting lettuce, turnips, raddishes, kale, collards (yellow cabbage, thanks again Hayne) mustard, and cabbage daily and selling to our friends new store as well as eating ourselves. Hoping to bring some more business up to the farm in time. Tomatoes in the greenhouse are setting on really nicely and we've got alpine strawberries coming out the ears! For all intents and purposes it's still almost summer here judging by our food. Of corse there is the daily allotment of eggs coming from the chickens as well even though they have calmed down their laying.

[ottawagardener]

Got cabbage (red rock mammoth), kale, beets, carrots, florence fennel, mache, mizuna, swiss chard, turnips, green onions of various kinds, other roots such as J.Artichokes, scorzonera etc..., more greens such as mustard, rocket, tat soi, and I'm sure there is something else. I do have some coldframes which will be covered by a polytunnel but I didn't get around to doing that yet so hopefully I'll still be harvesting into December with the long break in Jan and Feb where I'll have to rely on my root cellar.

[maricybele]

Beets
spinach
radicchio
cabbage
kholrabbi
kales
carrots
turnips
swiss chard
onions
garlic
shallots
my eggplants, peppers and tomatoes are still under cover but getting towards the end
several lettuce varieties
radish
leek
arugula
beans
peas
I still have some black berry and raspberries
pac choi
brocolli
brussell sprouts

[canadamike]

Welcome maricybelle! Have fun with the bunch!

I don't know where you live, but still having raspberries? We're not neighbours

Can I be jaleous?

[grungy]

Yes, welcome maricybelle to our "little gardening family". Normally I might be jealous of your fall garden, but after this summer, I don't have the energy. LOL
cheers,
Val and Dan (grunt and grungy)

[Rebsie]

Ottawagardener, I envy you your storage cellar. I have a damp stinky freezing cold lean-to on the back of the house, but it's not quite the same.

And not much left in the garden after the first autumn frosts except the hardy weeds, and the potatoes I forgot to harvest. (In fact I think I've forgotten where I planted them.)

[canadamike]

I vote to suspend the right to talk about their garden to all those still harvesting.

Anybody having seen snow on the ground to second the motion?

[cff]

Nov 6, 2008 19:36:49 GMT -5 canadamike said:

I vote to suspend the right to talk about their garden to all those still harvesting.

Anybody having seen snow on the ground to second the motion?

Snow

Man it was 75 degrees here today

North Carolina only has two seasons lately - Summer and almost summer

[peapod]

Well being new to this fourm I am glad to hear that some of us CANT grow a fall crop due to weather. Its a hard life sometimes... Just a quick note I live in MN not a wonderful Carolina or the florida panhandle, even Texas this time of year would be nice.

BUT I did harvest the last of my Swiss Chard, Kale, Flat Leaf Parsley, Apples(made the best jelly), Beets, Carrots, Potatoes and thats it Folks.
I could only wish I had Summer and Almost Summer duing a 12 month period. I would have to bup a new house for another canning kitchen.

[grungy]

I'll second your motion, Mike.

[Rebsie]

Snow? Hmmm ... does hard white crispy frost count?

[cff]

Nov 6, 2008 20:24:28 GMT -5 peapod said:

Well being new to this fourm I am glad to hear that some of us CANT grow a fall crop due to weather. Its a hard life sometimes... Just a quick note I live in MN not a wonderful Carolina or the florida panhandle, even Texas this time of year would be nice.

BUT I did harvest the last of my Swiss Chard, Kale, Flat Leaf Parsley, Apples(made the best jelly), Beets, Carrots, Potatoes and thats it Folks.
I could only wish I had Summer and Almost Summer duing a 12 month period. I would have to bup a new house for another canning kitchen.

After two solid years of drought and triple digit heat waves I'm not so sure anything is wonderful here outside of the fact (we ain't got no snow) ;D

[canadamike]

Yes Rebsie, I suspect Grungy and I will accept it

Hayne, can I move to your place in winter? ;D I've been to your state once in winter, and I was wearing a t-shirt while the locals were wearing light coats ( light for us ) Man, I would take it for 6 months with so much joy...