Here are the garden beds on Monday, before our first frost. Hilariously, not as much changed after that night as I’d have thought it should. The zinnias and zucchini were toast – I pulled those out in the middle of the week. What is shocking is that the dahlias are still alive. The foliage and […]

The last of this year’s dahlias has managed to bloom. In the third week of October. We’ll ignore the fact that by all rights, we should have had our first frost ages ago, and this plant would have been toast. This one was a happy surprise. It had come in a set – Lady Darlene

The tomatoes are gone. After the last blight removal chop, which was drastic, they just weren’t doing much. I decided to cut my losses. I also pulled the netting off the brassicas. At some point over the week, a hole developed. I have no idea how long it had been open. I managed to patch

The trellis down. It was already tipping, and I didn’t have time to take it down when we had a hurricane bearing down on us. Fortunately, the hurricane was more or less a bust in Southern Maine, but I took that as a sign, and just snipped all the bean stems this morning. I’ll let

Well, it’s September, and Mother Nature finally picked up on the fact that she didn’t torture us nearly enough with hot weather in August, so we got several days of humid 80s over the last week. I’ve pretty much given up any pretense of normalcy – I’m just rolling with whatever happens at this point.

Despite the fact that removing blighted leaves from the tomatoes seems to have become a full time job, I’m happy with where the garden is right now. The dahlias are finally out, and the tomatoes and zucchini are producing in a reasonable amount. (There are seven or eight tiny zucchini working since we got our

The garden’s getting into high season. It’s probably not as good as it could be – we’re still getting a lot of rain. But the peppers are no longer sulking, and I only seem to have early blight on my tomatoes (knock on wood), which is easier to deal with than late blight.

The garlic came out on 7/24. The leaves weren’t quite as dead as I normally look for, but the consensus on the local gardening boards was to pull it. With all the rain we’ve been getting, apparently a lot of people are getting split heads. Mine’s looking pretty good, so I’m happy I pulled it

It’s still raining a lot. My peppers are still sulking (see below). But there are flowers. I actually feel fairly lucky. There are lots of people on the local gardening boards I follow that are having completely terrible years. I will get a harvest, even if it’s not the best I’ve ever had. I don’t