Make way for Fall

written by Yvonne

We're a few weeks behind schedule to get our Fall/Winter garden in the ground, but all things considered that's not too bad.  Last week, Tom got one bed cleared out, now it was my turn to clear one out. It was a big pain to cut the tomato limbs from the growing spirals, but I stayed at it until I freed the spirals completely.

All the tomato plants were ready for the compost pile.

It's tough to pull plants out when there are still lots of tomatoes on the vines, but ya gotta do it if you're going to get the next season's seeds down. Maybe when we add another bed or two we'll have enough space to keep some things going while starting the next season's seeds.

The jelly bean tomatoes are fun to eat but man were they a pain to pick out of the soil, one by one.

Eventually, I got everything out of bed #1 and then measured out space for garlic, carrots, beets and turnips.

The garlic comes in bulbs so I had to separate them into individual cloves.

Into the compost went the tomatoes.  On Sunday we were able to sow cabbage and 6 types of lettuce in bed #3.

Before I started pulling out items, Tom went through and did a real thorough harvest.  He pulled up all the marjoram and a big bunch of basil.  The orka plants are still in the ground but he harvested some that was ready to eat.

A lot of the tomatoes were very green and he promised me a southern meal of fried green tomatoes and orka. Hopefully, that'll happen this week.

Last little beauties for the year.

More cow peas.

He harvestest two window sills worth of partially ripe tomatoes...

as well as a ton of green tomatoes....

and a colander full of jelly bean tomatoes.

And with some of that, he made us lunch!