Last weekend I finally snuck away from the baby for a little while to tend to the garden. I was surprised and a little annoyed to discover that it’s no longer summer and the growing season is winding down.
All those weeds I’d been planning to pull since July? They were looking just as overgrown and half-dead as the zucchini plants. Well, I pulled them anyway. I wheeled away two cart-loads of weeds and dead vegetable plants.
The sight of empty garden beds has me excited for next spring already.
The garden is still producing plenty of stuff now, though. I’ve been checking for frost every morning and so far we’ve been in the clear.
Here’s some Swiss chard (heavily harvested, but still growing):
We finally got poblano peppers this year, too. Hurray! This is the third year I’ve tried to grow these guys and the first time it worked.
After all that, you’d think we would have eaten at least one by now. Nope. They’re still sitting in the refrigerator and on the vine. Next year I may scale back the hot pepper section of the garden.
