The last month has been a blur, with our warm nights gone we are now starting to get ready for winter.
Our first freeze happened on September 27th and it was hard enough that when we went out the next morning all my tomato vines were blackened.
Because we saw it coming, my husband came home from work and we spent an hour or more outside harvesting everything we could find to bring in.
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| This is what we could bring in, Tomatoes, Winter Sqash, Carrots, some Peppers and only one more Watermelon. My lovely girls wanted to showoff the carrots and watermelon :) |
We didn't hardly get any of the tomatoes that were on the vines and found out later after quite a few freezing nights that we could have harvested the green ones and stored them over winter and they would have rippened. Unfortunately it was too late and the vines went flat.
I felt so bad seeing them all out there but they didn't taste very well since they had froze. We are pulling the vines and all the tomatoes so I don't have them all trying to reseed next year.
I did however get a good yield of Spaghetti Squash as you can see.
I had to fight the mice over growing these guys and I only had 2 vines (out of an original 10) going but I am pretty happy with the turnout, I just hope they all were ready since we just brought in everything.
Our strawberry plants are still looking great and so are a few herbs but everything else, including my grapes are down for the season. Praying the grapes will make it thru the winter!!
We also didn't get all of the onions or potatoes, technically the potatoes can still be harvested but I am not sure how long they will store. We had friends come over on Saturday right after the first freeze and they happily took 3 rows of onions. While they were with us they shared some of their chili harvest.
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| One of many batches roasted. |
Now that everything is dead we are ripping it all out and tilling some straw in, now we get to plant some garlic we ordered.
Hope everyone is enjoying the change in weather.
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