The garden is now 'put to bed.'
Last night we dipped below freezing temperatures. It's supposed to happen again tonight, and it was finally time to "put the garden to bed." After playing in the leaves yesterday afternoon, I spent about two hours taking the tomato and pepper plants down for the year. I harvested the last of the green peppers, making over three dozen in my fridge to finish chopping up and freezing for later use, and I pulled all the green tomatoes for ripening inside over the next week or so.
On Monday, I had taken a picture of the cherry tomato plants. As you can see, my little tomatoes had NO clue that it was October. However, they were going to die in this freeze, so I had to bring them all inside. And it was a LOT of tomatoes, especially between the cherry tomatoes and the Better Boy tomatoes, as pictured here.
I still need to get the fence down, and the six dozen marigolds are still big and beautiful (most are 2-3' feet in diameter, still in full bloom), so you can still see where the garden was, even if there are no veggies actually left in the space.
It's kinda sad, actually. I don't know if I'll be able to have a garden once we move, so it's sad saying goodbye to this one. *sniff*
On Monday, I had taken a picture of the cherry tomato plants. As you can see, my little tomatoes had NO clue that it was October. However, they were going to die in this freeze, so I had to bring them all inside. And it was a LOT of tomatoes, especially between the cherry tomatoes and the Better Boy tomatoes, as pictured here.
I still need to get the fence down, and the six dozen marigolds are still big and beautiful (most are 2-3' feet in diameter, still in full bloom), so you can still see where the garden was, even if there are no veggies actually left in the space.
It's kinda sad, actually. I don't know if I'll be able to have a garden once we move, so it's sad saying goodbye to this one. *sniff*