September is always a big month for gardeners, and for good reason. It's also the end of summer gardening here, and I'm moving into planting for fall/winter now. I've still got some crops producing, and I haven't dug up most of the orange sweet potatoes yet.
Arugula - 1 c
Beans, calypso - 2/3c dried beans
Beans, golden crescent - 1 1/2 c fresh beans
Cabbage, green - 1
Eggs- 168
Herbs - basil, mint, oregano, dill, parsley, thyme, cilantro
Onions, candy - 8
Onions, green - 4
Peppers, Bulgarian - 2
Potatoes - 1/2 lb
Swiss Chard - 1 bunch
Squash, butternut - 4
Sweet Potatoes, orange- 1 lb
Sweet Potatoes, purple - 14.5 lbs
Tomatillos- 1 1/2 lbs
Tomatoes, Black Vernissage - 13
Tomatoes, Golden Jubilee - 14
Tomatoes, St. Pierre - 40
Tomatoes, Woodle Orange - 4
Watermelon, sugar baby - 2 small
also, cherry tomatoes, which I never count/weigh, a bit of kale, and several cups of sunberries
The Cinderella Pumpkins were beautiful, but the vines died before they were fully ripe, so I didn't get to enjoy harvesting those. They were relegated to the chicken yard.
Regular potatoes were mostly a failure this year. Back to the drawing board on growing those. Also a failure for the second year in a row: eggplant. Next year, I'm not going to bother with trying to grow them. I can buy organic ones pretty cheaply at our farmer's market. And I finally got the sunberries to produce well, but now the kids really aren't eating them, so I don't know if I'll bother with those, either.
I did just buy some onion sets for fall, and my seedlings that I planted a couple of weeks ago indoors look great. Nathaniel is going to get my fall/winter bed ready soon, and then I'll plant them out. Also on the agenda for October is planting next year's garlic crop. And I took some of my birthday money and ordered a Russet Apple Tree for planting next spring! I'm pretty excited about that one, even though it will take a couple of years to get apples.
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