Garden Update - Final Summer Plant Harvest - Freeze Coming
The weather forecast is calling for freezing temperatures the next two days, so it's time to do my final summer crop harvest. Whatever condition the fruit was this morning, I took it off the vines. I had a lot of peppers of all different types and several types of tomatoes that I collected.
The broccoli plants are looking great. I've been told that broccoli can withstand some cold, and we are getting down to 23 degrees F tomorrow, so hopefully it will be ok.
I've read that if you put your green tomatoes in a box with a banana peel, that will help them turn red. I'm going to try that and see how that works.
It's sad to see my summer plants at the end, but that's ok, spring will be here before you know it. I had such an amazing harvest throughout the season, I really can't complain at all.
See my other Gardening and Homesteading Posts
I do the Mittleider Method, see my Mittleider Gardening Posts
- Mittleider Gardening
- Mittleider Book
- Deer Fence
- Mittleider Trellis System
- Twine for the Trellis System
- Mittleider Watering System
- Benefits of the Raised Bed System
- In the Garden Greenhouse hoops
I also have tried the Square Foot Gardening Method
Various Techniques and Equipment
- Pressure Canning Green Beans
- Hand Pollinating Squash/Zucchini
- Roma Tomato harvest and Water Bath Canning
- Potato Harvest and Pressure Canning Potatoes
- Black Eyed Peas - Harvest and Storage
- Harbor Freight 6x8 Greenhouse Construction
Harvesting Posts/General Updates
- Garden Update - 11/5/17
- Garden Update - 11/4/17
- Garden Update - 10/10/17
- Garden Harvest - 10/4/17
- Green Bean Harvest - 9/24/17
- Fall Garden Update - 9/23/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/23/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/20/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/18/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/17/17
- Garden Harvest and Food Donation - 6/15/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/16/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/7/17
- Tomato Progress - 5/31/17
- Garden Harvest - 5/30/17
It is time to start planning for next year's garden. That can be exciting too.
For sure. I've almost got my 5th box filled with the sawdust/sand and will be doing my 6th after that. I seem to make a lot of progress if the weather cooperates in the winter. I hate being out there in 95+degree weather in the summer shoveling and doing hard work. It's easier when its cooler.
I am definitely planning to do several beds of potatoes next season, that crop worked out very nicely this year.
I want to do sweet potatoes in my beds next year. Haven't tried them before...
I've done them, they make this very ground cover greenery. I know some people put them under bushes and it looks like a pretty ground cover you might put in for decoration and no one knows you've got food growing.
One thing to keep in mind is you need to cure sweet potatoes and you don't have to do that with white potatoes.
Thanks for the tip.
Great update post. At 23 degrees I'd probably cover my Broccoli......let us know how it works out!
Looks like my Home Depot has some plastic so I think I'm going to go by there after work and get some and put that over the broccoli. I'd hate to have it damaged.
Keeping our fingers crossed for your Broccoli plants!
Thanks!!!! :-)
I have to ask because of my curiosity... but on the picture with the broccoli, you have an electrical outlet or box, what is that for?
So that box is a hunter watering system box. I've got the watering system completely automated. This saves me son much time!
See a previous post on the watering system.
https://steemit.com/garden/@florio/mittleider-method-watering-system
thank you- checking it out now
Nice!