Tomorrow, ill show you some of the "preserving foods" entries, as they were a real jaw-dropper, too. Man....I gotta enter some stuff next year.In other news, the temps for the next 3 nights will be 47, 46, and 43. I went ahead and bit the bullet, by removing every last green tomato from the plants. It was hard to do, but there's no way they would ripen after those cool nights. But, several will be used to make green tomato salsa with, and the rest will probably be fried. Oh well, at least I get a jump on the earthtainer cleanup process.
Most things will be removed this weekend, with honeydew melons, zucchini, and cucumbers being the only things remaining. Another harvest of beans is likely, so they will be left a while longer.
Slowly but surely, the garden is coming to an end. Sigh.....
Takecare, and happy gardening!
EG
11 comments:
That would be fun to enter a fair. I always wonder about the one fair that I know of in our areas, the Topsfield Fair. It runs through the first part of October. I keep thinking how you can enter a cucumber or zucchini when a lot of people will already have had a frost. I would think mid September would be a better time, but maybe the pumpkins wouldn't be ripe enough by then. Yours in obviously in September.
Wow, look at all those beauties- thanks for sharing EG, I can't wait to see the next part!
Ya we saw some pretty impressive stuff when we went to the Kentucky State Fair last summer! It is amazing!
While it is sad to see the garden come to an end each year, it is satisfying to know you can start all over again when everything starts to look like garbage!
Really? Even with warm days the green toms won't ripen?
:(
That is so cool! I am not a big fan of fairs, but I forget they usually have produce competitions. The big deal at most of our fairs are the giant pumpkins.
Your nighttime temps are lower than mine right now.
Daphne - I wondered the same thing. You should have seen the tomatoes...they looked horrible!
kelly - oh yeah....I was in hog heaven!
ShawnAnn - The squash were definitely the highlight of the food entries.
ribbit - if they do ripen, they'll not be of good quality.
rachel - temps here lower? that's unbelievable...
I take that back about the night temps. We were in the 50s, but now it looks like we will be in the 30s the next couple of days.
That was a lot of fun to see varieties that you can now grow. I did the same thing at our fair as I was dodging rain and wanted to get insice, but it was neat to see all of the different kinds of squash. Thanks for sharing.
Cool squashes, looks like a great fair. I think I like that flat grey squash the best, do you know the name?
The turning weather really is a bummer, seems to be happening very soon this year. We have had many days in the low 40's and next friday is forecasted to be 39! I have a few toms out there still, we shall see how they do.
We have a few college students online from University-of-North-Alabama and we love your blog postings, so we will add your rss or news feed for them, Thanks and please post us and leave a comment back and well link to you. Thanks Jen , Blog University-of-North-Alabama
UNA - I'm thrilled that you enjoy reading my blog. Thanks for the nice comment!
Post a Comment