How Does Your Fall Garden Grow?
I will be the first to admit that when it comes to gardening, hubby and I are both just winging it. We love working in our garden together, planting seeds and watching them grow (and in some cases, not grow). We love learning about what works where we live and what doesn’t. The best part is doing it with our kids. They are learning to take care of the things they plant, watering, and most importantly putting dirt on each others heads.
Now that fall is here, we don’t have to worry about the harsh, brutal summer heat and we’re watching things that shriveled over the summer flourish now. We’re impatiently waiting for some of our veggies to harvest.
Here’s what we’ve been doing. First, we started out our seeds in containers
Then we gradually moved those to our homemade beds and have been watching them thrive
This bed is mostly full of cucumbers but there are a few pumpkins in there that I am doubtful will make it but we’ll see!
This bed is tomatoes and herbs
I also brought some herbs inside for some greenery in the kitchen
Hubby loves hot peppers so we’ve got these plants
This is a bed that hubby just planted yesterday and those are cantaloupes. I have no idea anything about growing cantaloupe and if that will be successful or not but most of this is trial and error so we’ll see what happens with those!
In our gardens and containers, we’re growing
lettuce
spinach
green peppers
hot peppers
tomatoes
basil
cilantro
cucumbers
pumpkins
cantaloupe
peas
squash
NO idea how any of it will do over these fall months and into the winter. I think we’re close enough to the coast that our stuff will survive (at least that is what my mom says and moms know everything!).
If all of those fail, we still have our orange tree that we can depend on. One of my favorite things about November here is picking oranges.
What are you growing in your garden this fall?
October 7th, 2008 at 10:56 am
We really have no idea what we’re doing either, but since our garden is so large, friends always assume that we do! Our Fall garden consists of things that are still going strong from the summer, we didn’t plant anything new. We’re very surprised that our tomatoes are still thriving and find it odd that our chili peppers pretty much stay dormant all summer and then go to town at this time of year. They don’t to that in other people’s gardens. Our raspberries are doing very well, but they probably won’t all ripen before it freezes.
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October 7th, 2008 at 11:15 am
I grew some tomatoes and herbs. I do ok with perennial flowers, but veggies, not so much!
I love to grow cherry tomatoes and then just eat them right off of the vine. I tried some yellow ones this year and they were really good, too!
We also have wild blackberry bushes, so I made some blackberry crisp with that back in July.
Your plants look promising! Hope you get a bounty full of nice veggies
Bella
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October 7th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I love reading your blog. I can’t wait to start our fall garden. I’m a CPA and will have no time until after the October 15th tax deadline. We’ll probably try lettuces and onions - maybe some garlic and potatoes. I’m too late for pumpkins and squash here, so I’ll have to rely on the farmer’s market for those.
I hope you’ll keep us posted on your garden. I’ve always heard that cantaloupes and melons need fairly hot weather to ripen properly, so I pulled all of ours out in September since they wouldn’t have time to mature before the weather turned cooler.
We’re in Texas, but we lived in Seattle for 8 years, and the Pacific Northwest is an amazing place to garden. Your mom is right - anything can survive there. For things that thrive in sun and heat like tomatoes and corn, we get better results here. However, for every one thing that grows well here, there are 50 things that thrived in Seattle that cannot withstand Texas heat. I like Texas, but I really miss gardening in the PNW.
October 7th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
how fun! we have no fall garden, just a small front yard. but i am gathering ideas for someday!
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October 7th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
I’m growing spinach, lettuce, kale & cabbage this fall/winter. I still have tomatoes producing and potatoes & sweet potatoes to dig up. I am planning on growing some herbs inside this year as well.
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October 7th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I’m not much of a gardener anymore. When I realized I didn’t enjoy it, I gave it up for pursuits I do enjoy, like knitting, scrapbooking or reading.
My husband and daughter have had some success with beans and peas but haven’t tried any fall/winter planting.
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October 7th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
I’m letting everything grow as long as possible. I still have acorn squash that I really want to eat before our rain really starts. Still have tomatoes, onions, carrots, and lettuce growing.
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October 8th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Your garden looks fabulous! I can’t wait to see what you get to harvest and enjoy for your family!