I did some harvesting yesterday. Not enough tomatoes there for a batch to can, but I have to pick them as soon as they're ripe. I'm fighting a squirrel brigade that is fattening up for winter. They are hungry and they love tomatoes. ...And pumpkins, as you can see from the nibble taken out of the top. That's the last of the early-summer planted potatoes and the last of the cukes.
Hard to tell in the photo, but there are still a lot of green tomatoes on the vine. The plant's leaves are changing over right along with the trees. I should get plenty more fruit before the first frost hits.
This Dill is telltale of the Colorado climate. We've still been quite warm. All the mature stocks went to seed a month or so ago (yeah, I really need to collect them). But you can see the green of the new starts in the bottom from where it has reseeded itself.
My one and only eggplant. Not quite true. This plant produced one other earlier in the year, but it was so small that I don't think it counts.
Kale and Collards still going strong and really looking the best it has all year.
The cabbage and broccoli which looks exactly like it did 2 months ago. The broccoli looks healthy, but it never sent up any flower stalks. Too shady in these beds.
The three sisters bed, all but used up. Corn is ready for the front porch and most all of the winter squash vines were overtaken with powdery mildew. I had been keeping it in check for a while with a baking soda/water solution, but finally gave up on it.
The last holdout there is Kaya's ginormous pumpkin. It's the biggest one we've ever grown. We ended up with three nice orange pumpkins this year. There are a couple more still trying to turn over.
Finally, a few more potatoes that I planted mid summer. And the nicely groomed bed on the end that I prepared for the fall garlic planting.
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