First Fall Harvest
As a girl who developed a love of decorating for spring and fall while living in two cities that don’t experience those wonderful seasons, I can’t tell you how thrilled I am about my harvest from the garden today …
Eleven baby pumpkins (and there are three more still “baking” on the vine)!
There’ll be a few more fall harvests because I have some bigger pumpkins still “cooking.”
And because I put my tomatoes in so late and we’ve had such a cool summer, a few are finally starting to mature.
I have a feeling, there’ll be a lot of green ones going into the garden waste and my trooper of a sweet pepper that was completely eaten by something early in the season, came back and is blooming now with no chance of getting fruit on before cooler temps set in here.
But all in all, I’d say the garden was a success and I’ve definitely learned a lot for next year …
At D’s suggestion I’ll plant the tomatoes (earlier!) along the fence for an automatic tomato stake and to avoid the crazy vine creep into my neighbors yard …
I’m thinking I’m going to let the vines (cucumber and pumpkin) take over other parts of my mulched yard and stick with upright plants for the formal garden area.
And because of my joy over the pumpkins, I’m definitely planting more varieties!