Been about a month since I last posted. The garden's doing well, as we enter early fall. Only problem has been the ongoing battle with controlling the rats. I've killed a few more with traps, and lately I haven't seen many issues from them, but I continue to keep my pumpkins covered with netting to protect them, and especially the new female flowers, which they seem to love.
Pumpkins
The Rouge Vif d'Etampes pumpkins are huge plants. I have 2 hills, one of them is on a side of the garden that doesn't get good sunlight anymore. The plants don't look as healthy. But there are about 5 pumpkins growing on them, including the two below.
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| This one is done growing. Its color is deepening. Unfortunately it didn't get very big. probably due to the lack of good sunlight. |
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| Another one on the same vine. This one probably won't get much bigger either. |
The other hill gets much more sun, and they plants look a lot healthier. The healthiest section of the vine is now growing among the okra plants. It makes it hard to harvest the okra.
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| pumpkin vines among okra plants. |
There are some nice pumpkins developing there, including this one, which looks to be the biggest one. Might end up as big as last years 25lb one. The yellow color on these means they are still growing, as that picture below is about 5 day old, so its gotten bigger since. Pretty excited about this one. I wish I could turn it over so it doesn't sit on its side, but its too late now. Its too big now to move without breaking the stem.
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| the big one. |
Okra
I mentioned the okra above. They are doing great. Still have lots of aphids on them but doesn't seem to slow them down much. I really like their flowers too. Every day I harvest a handful of okra. I've frozen some, and we've cooked them in a number of different ways.
Other Plants
The other stuff I planted late summer is doing pretty good. The mustard plants are super productive. We have cooked greens about twice a week. The turnip greens are getting in the mix too. I see some nice turnips forming too.
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| Mustard, with turnips behind them |
The cabbage is doing well too, except for some caterpillars attacks which I've dealt with by spraying some BT. Some of the plants look like they are starting to form tiny heads.
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| Cabbage plants |
I also have some snap peas growing. Notice the rat traps in the picture. Rats (or rabbits?) seem to like young pea plants too, unfortunately
And my pole beans are doing very well too. No signs of spider mites, and they look nice and healthy. No flowers yet though, but there's plenty of time.
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| Kentucky Wonder pole beans. |
My spinach plants are still pretty small. They have fallen victim to rats or rabbits, so I covered them with tulle for a while.
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