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| Fall is here |
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| Fall Garden |
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| Carrot Flowering |
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| Pea Flower |
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| Pea Pod |
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| Tomato and Jalepeno |
Fall has reached eastern NC. I have not forgotten about posting. I have not forgotten about gardening. With three toddlers, homeschooling, making food from scratch, no babysitters, cleaning house, ect. ect. I end up having to choose what gets my utmost priority which is the kids.
Yesterday, we finished repotting all of our banana and citrus trees. The kids had a blast. Just hoping we didn't wait too long. :/ It is hard to find the potting soil for the citrus plants so they didn't get any soil in spring and they suffered greatly. They are all yellow and did not bear fruit for the first time in three years.
Back to the Fall Garden. Not sure if I planted the pumpkin seeds to late or too early. Either way the pumpkin seeds grew beautifully right before a gulley washer of a week rained them out. They turned yellow and died. I thought for sure the rains had destroyed all the lettuce and kale I had planted, but they survived. The spinach, broccoli, and cabbage did not survive.
The other night it got down to the 30s which destroyed the greenest tomato plants I have ever seen. The Tomato plants were planted from seed and finally took off. They were vibrant, lots of leaves, fruit, ect, even a caterpillar pillaged one, but it took them all summer to take off from seed so the above picture is all I got after the frost. I'm going to harvest the seeds and try planting them in pots this spring since they did so well. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what kind they were.
The peas as usual are flourishing. Peas seem to be the only crop I can consistently grow. Beginning to think it has something to do with my soil prep since I make my own soil so to speak.
That wraps it up for fall. We had over 3 lbs of carrots.....from what I can tell they are simply a root that continues to grow. When you get into the different kinds of carrots it basically is referring to how soon you can pick them and they have flavor and size when you pick them. My petite carrots left for a year in the ground have turned into monstrosities. Gorgeous even with a ton of caterpillars eating them stems last months they continued to produce stems and some even budded. Just have to learn how to harvest their seeds now!
