We had a frost over a week ago, and I had to pull out our huge tarp to cover the tomatoes and pumkin vines, since there are a few pumpkins still growing in them
But since then, the weather warmed up pretty nice. For Halloween, Elizabeth, Michelle, and Andrew cut three of the pumpkins into Jack-o-lanterns:
We picked 2 pretty decent sized pumpkins from the vine too, making it 7 picked, and 3 on the vine still. A week ago, there were 5 on the vine, but 2 small ones withered... bummer.
Its getting so late in the season I really doubt any new ones would have any chance to grow before we get a hard freeze. This one is growing on top of the tomatoes. I had to support it as its getting big:
Other plants: The tomatoes are barely hanging on, but there are a number of fruit on vine. But most of the vine is brown now except the tips of the vines. The cabbage are doing really well. Here is one with the head now forming nicely:
I picked a few of the lower leaves the other day from it and other plants, and cooked them up like collard greens. It was pretty good. They leaves were really shading some younger cabbage plants I have growing next to it.
I also have spinach growing nicely now. Here are some of the plants. Should be a couple more weeks and we can start having some spinach salads, or cooked spinach.
Another thing I had to cover up during the frost was the pole beans. I have 2 hills growing along the fence. I used 2 sheets and draped them over the plants. They survived well, and are bearing fruit like crazy :)
There are some volunteer morning glory vines there too that I have to occasionally prune...
But back to the beans, I much prefer pole beans to bush beans. They are more space efficient cause they grow up, and I love the long big pods. But the drawback is that they dont seem to handle the heat as well. But I can get a good crop in the spring and one in the fall, if I can protect them from the frost.
In this pic, you can see the turnips still growing, some bib lettuce growing (upper right) along with radishes, and in the upper left some young brocolli plants.
