September Garden Updates.

Playing catch up on my blog this morning. i didn't really post many garden harvest photos this year, but here are a few from September.

Tomatoes really started to come in and i spent much of the month canning them. It rained sometime the last week of July, but not at all in August or September. So it's amazing we were finding any wild mushrooms at all.  It was ( and still is) so dry out.

We have been soaking our plugged logs, so for the first part of September we were still getting a lot of mushrooms.  We were no longer finding any chanterelles or trumpets, but we did find several Chicken of the Woods.

We had plugged our oysters on oak, and they really didn't do very well. We learned that they really prefer poplar, so we're going to us poplar next time we plug oysters. Our shiitakes have done really well on the oak logs.

Although we were getting eggs all summer, my pretty egg layers all stopped for a couple months and i was only getting brown and cream. Sometime around the middle of September the blue and green layers started laying again and i had pretty eggs once again!

The Blue Beauty Tomatoes are a favorite because of their color.  i've been getting a lot of the red tomatoes since June, but some of the more fun colors always take a bit longer. 

September ended just as dry as it started, still no rain since the end of July. Still getting a few tomatoes, but most of my plants were just about done.  The small red ones are from the greenhouse, which is still producing now.  My butternut squash was infected with black rot (something new every year) so i only harvested two, and they couldn't be stored. i did get quite a few acorn squash this year, but no pumpkins.   Normally i would be putting in cold crops, but it's too dang hot and dry. It's been almost 90 degrees many days and we are in a state of drought.  So i've pretty much just given up on it for this year.  i may try to get a little lettuce planted under some row covers, if we ever get rain.

i did get a lot of tomatoes put up this year, and we still have potatoes and sweet potatoes to dig.