How is your fall garden doing? Here's what's still hanging around mine:
Leeks
Swiss Chard
Lettuce
Spinach
Cabbage
Broccoli
Parsley
and my personal favorite: Kale

Cover crops are started on some beds while others are now planted with garlic for next year. Now if only the weather would stop raining for long enough to apply some soil amendments.

If folks don't respond does that mean they have nothing?

Pasque, I bet you folks out there in the plains are hanging on to any sign of vegetation with what I see on the Weather Channel.

I still have Mustard, nice big mustard from a package of greens planted in March. I have a little Chard, but the deer like it too well.

Peppers of various kinds
Argula
Tomatoes (very few)
Herbs
Coshaw

We still have kale. Everything else has been brought in--some because of the cold and some to protect it from moose.

I've still got some squash ripening (delicata & acorn), a second planting of potatoes, tomatoes that may or may not ripen for much longer, carrots, chard, celery... think that's about it with anything on it still.

Beets, chard, squash, peppers, tomatoes, a few late melons. Dill, basils, rosemary and lavendar still going like mad. Should have baby spinach and greens shortly.
Neighbor has the most beautiful mustard/turnip green patch I've even seen. Cooked up a big pot of greens with bacon drippings, a big bowl of tomato relish and corn muffins.

Well I was just out, poking among the dead foilage, we have had cold weather, snow and freezes, found some tiny beet leaves, that will make a nice salad, I planted them between two tomatoes, and they have been living in the shade all summer, also swiss chard is going strong, and a few onions are left.

Do I pull the walking onions? I can't remember. Mrs.K

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How is your fall garden doing? Here's what's still hanging around mine:

crappy.
My veggies just completely stopped growing- even the ones that like cold.

Anyone know what those little trails on the skin of root veggies are from?

I've still got a few tomatoes hanging on with green tomatoes--and some late ones that I'm going to cover and see if I can keep them long enough and warm enough to ripen, some late squash in the same bed so hopefully a few more squash. Winter greens and root crops (mustard, turnips, beets, radishes, rutabagas)growing well, lettuce is struggling but coming on, and bell peppers still bearing. Got to put garlic and winter onions in, and sow some collards and mustard for cover crops.

minni, i think the little trails are some kind of beatle the munches as it walks along.

i kno, that doesnt help much

I've had something boring into my root veggies this year. Mostly the radishes, but also some carrots. Oddly enough, they leave the beets alone even though they're only about 6ft away from the others.

Think I'll just plant in a different area next year... the whole garden's gonna get a remodel... so that shouldn't be difficult. And I feed them to the bunny anyway... he doesn't mind the extra protein. LOL But yeah... frustrating when you're trying to find one for yourself!

Mine not doing too well.

someone is dining nicely - but it's not me!

With the short days - I wake up later, rush off to work, and it's dark when I get home usually....

I got a nice zuchini a few days ago...but ruined it int he recipe, lol!

hopefully next I check there will be something!

I'm still getting tomatoes, eggplant, peppers and basil. Cut down all the okra, though it would have continued to produce if I'd let it. Just couldn't reach that high to harvest (over 9 ft. tall). I only had 2 watermelon this year (sugar babies) - finally cut em yesterday and planned on enjoying them for dessert last night but they were very unappetizing. I think I waited too long to harvest, but everyone says wait until they pull away from the stem and that never happened. The vine was dying back and STILL those stems wouldn't budge.

Collards, kale, lettuce, cilantro, a few spinach and one lonely broccoli that made it through summer are all in for fall. I will put in some garlic when the nightshades come out – wanted to raise up that bed first but may not have the time. Still waiting for things to dry out a bit here too. Most of my parsnips rotted in the ground - that bed got swamped from rains and stayed that way for weeks.

What's the trick to growing leeks? I planted back in early March and they are pitiful looking – nothing larger than a small scallion.

I still have a few 'maters and peppers and one winter tomato to put in the ground - freebie from a friend. The peppers took off way late and I think I can coddle them through the next few months if we don't have a freeze, maybe the squash too, although it didn't do much (but the plant looks good).

I'd like to get some chard in the ground and if I throw some arugula seeds down I'll consider it an accomplishment. I still have a few meager kales from last year, which survived the summer because they're growing in a shady spot.

Kale in summer and winter tomatoes - life in L.A.!

Well, here is my late planted fall garden, which I put off until about 9-25 indoors, and transplanted Columbus day. I covered it in a tunnel of plastic, and now I have more greens than I can eat! And some aren't really ready, even though being fairly large already.

The komatsuna and mizuna were the most incredible, and both are cut-and-come-again, so I am going to cover them and see if they grow through the winter.

Dave

ok, NEXT year, I am going to try this, cause I do not have any greens to eat. I am so busy getting int the harvest, than planting just gets pushed back, but I like the idea of starting a few things indoors and moving them out. I am pretty sure that the Walls of water would work just as well in the fall. Mrs.K