Sunday Greetings Gardener!
What are you harvesting this week?
In the GardensAll garden…
SWEET POTATOES
It’s the season for harvesting sweet potatoes. YUM! Some of our fellow gardeners have already posted us on their great results. It’s still a bit early for us because the plants are vigorously leafing and the fall frosts have yet to arrive.
Still, we ventured out to video a peek performance of our new-fangled grow-bag technique. The results can be seen here.
We got about 6 pounds out of one sack. Kinda disappointing, but better than some yields (or lack thereof) from past experiments with towers, large containers, and cages.
Other items of the week include installing transplants of ornamental kale (which is also edible), Italian radicchio, and several varieties of mesclun greens.
MORE TOMATOES!
We’re still bringing in the tomatoes! It is our best year ever for growing them, especially in our sun-deficient home garden. The string trellis and cattle panel archway has worked like a charm.
A trick we‘ve successfully used for harvesting tomatoes is to pick them a bit early and leave a little bit of stem on top. We set them in our garden window next to green bananas and they are ripening in just a few days. This method bypasses the cracking and the occasional damage from tomato fruit worms.
And… we continue to harvest beautiful eggplant and okra… so grateful!
No frost in the two-week forecast here in north-central NC, and we’ve gone without rain for nearly two months. We’ve been in hand watering mode all week for our non-irrigated plants, especially the newbies we put in a few weeks ago.
But hang on, friends and neighbors! Local forecasts are predicting a rainy day tomorrow. The petrichor will be intoxicating!
Howzit with you all? Have you had a serious dry spell? And what’s your garden growing this fall? We’d enjoy hearing about what’s happening in your Little Eden.
In Gratitude and Appreciation,
The Aldersons,
Coleman, LeAura, Devani, & Nikolai
...and the Dogs: Zoya, Caspian, Zeus and Mystique the black cat
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