A couple weeks ago we had our first frost. It was only a light frost, but i pretty much gave up on the garden and really didn't expect to be posting anymore harvest pictures. My focus has been on moving my craft area downstairs, setting up a studio and playing in the glass shop again. So my garden is a neglected mess of weeds and morning glories right now.
Went out this morning to clean it up a bit and was surprised to see that it's still producing.
i planted a bunch of lettuce and kale under row covers back in July. The majority of it never germinated, or was munched (especially the kale) before it had a chance to grow. The few that made it, did really well. SO we are starting the fall with fresh lettuce....but just a little. i do have more planted in a different area, that does seem to be germinating better.
i have fall peas blooming and producing. i planted green, yellow and purple again. So far only the yellow have started to produce. They really seem to be enjoying the cool mornings.
My rattlesnake preacher beans are fantastic. These area pole bean and they produce like crazy. i also have bush beans planted, they are producing but not as abundantly. We could get a frost any day now that will wipe them all out. i'm feeling pretty grateful to still be getting so much summer goodness in mid october.
Morning glories are beautiful, but also extremely invasive. i spend all summer ripping them out of the garden, but they just keep coming. By the fall, when the garden is nearly done and i let the morning glories take it over. These are my bean poles. The morning glories have completely covered them, and the tomatoes. They pulled down what was left of my bamboo fence, and knocked over several of the tomato supports.
It's a beautiful sort of destruction that eases us into the winter. Just as everything begins to really die back, it's all covered in flowers.
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