October 2019
Vegetable Gardening in October
- The last of the large peppers in the greenhouse are still ripening, will watch and then dehydrate them most likely still green but good for cooking
- Currently we are picking the end of the second crop of figs on our Desert King tree, the final scarlet runner beans, an odd cucumber. Tomatoes under cover are OK, but the bigger ones have been picked and are in the basement to ripen slowly. Will take most of them out soon.
- Good crop of carrots and parsnips under netting. Grew well this year with no carrot rust fly and sand added to the soil.
- Will start mulching the beets and carrots so they won’t freeze.
- Kohlrabi that didn’t fill out very well over the summer have filled out well now since it is cooler.
- Raspberries have old plants cleaned out and the giant stalks are tied down to the top wire. Currently producing but slowly.
- Time to get ready to plant your garlic, we will do so in the next couple of weeks. Plant them 6 inches apart with about an inch or so of soil on top. Then mulch with leaves.
- Have witches tongue and crispy mint lettuce up and will move it to a new bed after we get the manure and lime in it.
- The broccoli planted from seeds in July is growing strongly. It was supposed to be summer purple sprouting broccoli but the sprouts are only purple dots. So have covered and will see if it withstands the winter and sprouts in the spring.
- Still harvesting the later crop of cabbage.
- Will be putting manure and lime on all the beds soon, then put leaves on top. At least that is the plan. It is a little difficult in areas because there are several fall/winter crops still and will have to work around them.
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