My Garden, All Grown Up

The garden is definitely winding down as fall approaches. To be honest it's a relief as each crop finishes for the year. The potatoes are all dug. The cucumbers are done. There are still green beans, but I planted way too many of them and I'm done with them. I did get some canned at my mom's house the other week.
What's left are a few carrots, cabbage, basil, peppers, some tomatoes, popcorn and the squash.


The weeds got completely out of hand during the wedding time, but they probably would have anyway. It's just a big space to keep weeded. Cabbage, bolted lettuce, beans, broccoli, peppers.


The cucumber patch, ready to be pulled out.


This is the pumpkin patch. What, you can't see any? Well that would be because the person before us planted 300 tomatillo plants. Which have turned into about 5,000.


A close up of all the tomatillos in one area.



A few melons and our stumpy corn. We did get about 30 ears of corn though. They are tiny, but tasty.



We are getting this many tomatoes every 2-3 days. It's a lot, but they are starting to slow down. We've made and froze lots of sauce.


Just wait until you see the peppers I grew! We've got bell pepper plants with 8 beautiful peppers on them. I think about 12 plants, I'm hoping to make canned roasted red peppers with them. We grew these which are now called King Arthur. I grew "Fat 'N Sassy". I'm not sure why they were renamed, but wonder if it has anything to do with Monsanto taking over the seed world.

We've got a few more frames of honey to extract tonight, then once it cools down a bit we can get the bees all ready for winter. The medication we want to use for mites becomes too strong when it's hot. We did lose one hive, I'm not sure what happened but there doesn't appear to be a queen. Lots of drones, so possibly a laying worker. This can happen when there isn't a queen - a worker begins laying. But because she has not mated, they will all be males. The hive is doomed when this happens. I'm just glad we found it now, we were able to pull all the honey from them and give them to our newest hive to help them get through the winter.