This is a shoulder season in my vegetable gardens, maybe a bit earlier than normal, as mild weather has slowed tomato and pepper ripening, and fostered early sowings of fall greens and root crops.
I've pulled up most of the tomatoes, which were fading, aside from the cherries, which just keep going, in order to sow fall veggies (spinach, lettuce, mustards, beets, turnips, kale, and collards, etc.)
I've had great poblano peppers for the first time -- curious -- they were in a lower light bed below the house, and maybe with the milder summer?
The pole beans (romano, lazy wife, and Kentucky wonder) are still producing, and there were finally some yard-long beans developing last week in the mountains.
But they won't make much more progress, and will turned over to fall and winter greens, as well, sometime soon.
I've pulled up most of the tomatoes, which were fading, aside from the cherries, which just keep going, in order to sow fall veggies (spinach, lettuce, mustards, beets, turnips, kale, and collards, etc.)
I've had great poblano peppers for the first time -- curious -- they were in a lower light bed below the house, and maybe with the milder summer?
The pole beans (romano, lazy wife, and Kentucky wonder) are still producing, and there were finally some yard-long beans developing last week in the mountains.
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| A final spurt of beans |