It is now the month of October. The month of pumpkins, winter squash, and planting of fall crops such as lettuce, spinach, beets, and other frost resistant plants. It is a month of scarves and hot coffee nestled between your hands, the smell of pumpkin spice lingers in the air wherever you go. It’s the month of pretty fall foliage, Halloween, pumpkin patch visits, and corn mazes.
Isn’t it?
Well, by looking at our garden this year… You’d probably guess October was just another month of summer.
When I went for a garden stroll, I couldn’t believe the veggies that needed picked and the health of many of the plants that are usually done for the summer by now. We even have plants that have self seeded from tomatoes and lettuce! The “volunteer” tomatoes are blooming and the lettuce is preparing to bolt. We hadn’t paid as much attention after the squash and cucumbers succumbed to mildew and wilted away. We figured it was that time of year and the garden was wrapping up, therefore it would be time to figure out where to put some fall crops. We kept waiting, and waiting, and waiting some more but the plants have remained tall and green. Surely it is not still producing, I thought to myself. Well, think again!
I needed an “adventure” (fall colds and other things apparently did not get the same memo as the garden that it is still summer weather). Here are some photos from today for you to enjoy:
Millennial Garden on a Budget 