Welcome back. It's been a while since my last post, as the summer is flying by and coming to a close. Labor Day is right around the corner.
This is the time of the gardening season when all the work pays off. Overall it's been a good growing season, with a few exceptions. The extremely wet month of June and early July had an adverse affect on some of the plants, mainly pumpkins and beans. Some of the pumpkin plants rotted while the remaining ones didn't grow at the normal pace. The bean plants din't grow well either, only getting about 6 or 8 inches high (normally at least 12 to 14 inches). The bean crop was very sparse. The pumpkins have recovered somewhat but there are only a few forming and they are only about half grown at this point.
However, the garden overall has also yielded many nice crops as I discussed in my last post on August 7, 2015 (
http://dansgardening.blogspot.com/2015/08/harvest-time-is-heremid-season-garden.html). We have continued to enjoy the many edible benefits of gardening over the last few weeks:
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| Abundant Harvest |
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| Italian Kale |
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| Portugal Hot Peppers |
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| Grape Tomatoes on the Vine |
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| Red Thumb Fingerling Potatoes |
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| Heirloom Tomatoes |
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| Beautiful Sunflowers |
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| Heirlooms on the Vine |
In my next post I will talk about digging and storing potatoes. Also, the newly planted radishes, kale and lettuce are making good progress towards a fall harvest.
As always, thanks for reading.
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