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Your garden in autumn
For those of us in the northern hemisphere, autumn is quickly approaching or already here.
For vegetable gardens this usually means harvests are finishing and the garden will be cleaned up for the winter. Some of us continue to plant crops that like cool weather. Or if you live somewhere warm, maybe it's finally time to start some new plants for your winter season, you lucky dogs, you.
Maybe you're putting in the last round of flowers, or planting new bulbs and shrubs for next year.
What's going on in your garden right now?
In my garden the days have cooled down but tomato and pepper production are still going strong. I won't be taking those out for another month and a half if I'm lucky. I started a new patch of lettuces and mesclun mixes a couple weeks ago and they've sprouted but are growing pretty slow...of course i always think it's too slow. Almost everything else is already done or i have to wait until frost to harvest--winter squash/pumpkins and popcorn. I am planting cover crops in the empty beds for winter.
I keep eyeballing the tulip, lily and crocus bulbs at the store but I still don't have a designated place to plant them so I'm refraining. Perhaps next year I'll whip my flower beds into shape :P



I also have been eyeing the crocus and lily bulbs. However, I started a new job a couple weeks ago so that has me fairly busy plus my son started school. It's a lot of adjustment in our house.
Got my first frost last night. Zucchini looks dead, tomatoes and peppers, oddly enough, look more or less fine.
I haven't been caring for them as well as I did my summer plants but I've got peas, carrots and cauliflowers in the garden for fall harvest. I should be able to get the first carrots in a week or two. My gourds are starting to dry down and my basil plants are still happy. I'm also in a warm microclimate in zone 6 (delmarva humidity hooray!) and we had near record 94 degrees here today. But hopefully things will start to cool down. We've got between a month and a month and a half before our average fall frost dates. I need to take the corn down and put in my cover crops but I'm not sure when that'll happen.
The hot peppers are still going strong but I only wanted a few and got about a million!!