Tomatoes

[Jolly]

Yes, we're still picking Roma tomatoes, harvested from plants we started growing in August. Still getting a bit of okra and a few banana peppers.

Anybody else have anything still producing from their late summer garden?

[Maura]

I'm a little farther north than you are and the tomatoes haven't been flowering for some time, we've taken them out. The kale and spinach are doing well, under a cover and in a greenhouse.

[oneokie]

Oxheart tomato plants are loaded with fruit. No new blooms in several days now. Probably 3 or more 5 gallon buckets of tomatoes on the vines.

Cayenne and Serrano peppers have almost quit. Some of the plants are still blooming.

A hard freeze is forecast for later in the week, so will bring a halt to the garden.

[stargazer]

I still have tomatoes, butternut squash and of course carrots, spinach, lettuce, beets, broccoli and cabbage. I will cover my plants when we get our first freeze. I like to keep the garden going as long as possible. Oh, I still have green beans. How could I forget them. They are soooo good.

[offthegrid]

Parsley, brussel sprouts, kale. That's it up north. Hasn't snowed yet but we've had a number of hard frosts.

[meanwhile]

Western NC here, at 2300 feet. We still have one pepper plant going strong. It is the Seed Savers Exchange Candlelight pepper. We also have 3 types of Kale, a bit of spinach and lots of herbs. Oddly we have a few strawberries! My son searches under the leaves and find a few each week. Lots of parsley, sage, oregano, bay....and thats about it.

I am going to sow a few more kale seeds and put a layer of leaves over them and just see what happens. Last winter, we found kale up under leaves and straw even after snow....so it won't hurt to try.

[MushCreek]

My winter tomato plants are almost ready to transplant out, the herb garden is full, and yesterday I harvested 79 bananas- from one bunch! Last year, the squirrels ate the bananas, but I learned you can pick 'em green and they'll ripen up just the same. I had a squirrel barking at me the whole time I was cutting them- too funny!

[byexample]

We still have lettuce, spinach, chard, kale, beets, carrots, broccoli, and cabbage growing outside in cold frames that we cover with blankets at night. It's been freezing every night for over a month with the low so far this year right around 20F.

We have some tomatoes, peppers, various herbs & summer squash inside our passive solar greenhouse. Those plants (planeted in July) are just now starting to produce.

We expect to be able to keep the spinach, chard, and maybe some of the other greens going all winter and into the spring -- we did last year.

It's really amazing how well cold frames work even when using 4 mil plastic sheeting for glazing.

[ldc]

I still have some banana peppers going, that I cover at night. This fall is the first in years that I didn't get a fall garden in. I'm missing it! ldc

[MoonRiver]

I've still got several peppers plants, broccoli, sugar snap peas, cabbage, and one lettuce plant.

[MariaAZ]

The last of the okra are ready to pick here.

[lmrose]

WOW! Lucky people who live in warmer climates and still have produce in the garden! Here i southren Nova Scotia our garden is all in and stored in the cellar or in jars in the pantry. The only thing left is tomatoes in the hot house which will have to finish ripeening indoors. It is getting too cold nights now although days have been in the 50's and 60's F [ 12-15C].

By the ocean everything grows later than it does inland. Our strawberries don't ripen until August. Tomatoes were the same and continued until this week, Our bell peppers were in the hot house but not ripe until October this year! Corn was ripe in September.
Biggest problem this year was a lack of sun until the third week of Aug and Sept. That affected how everything grew.

[Oldcountryboy]

Still picking cherry tomatoes.

On July 4th, since I was home with nothing to do, I planted some cherry tomatoe seeds right up next to my house. On the underside of roof overhang, I mounted a 10 foot peice of conduit and ran bailing twine from the conduit down to the base of the tomatoe plants. As the tomatoes grew I kept tying the plant off to the twine. Some of the tomatoe plants ended up reaching all the way up to the roof line.

So because of the tall plants next to my house, the frost has not killed the top half of my tomatoe plants. The leaves on the bottom half of the plants have been burned up by the frost and fallen off. But the top half I am still picking cherry tomatoes and the other day I noticed there is still some blooms. However, we don't have any bee's to do their thing so I doubt they will make.

[Tricky Grama]

Still getting cherry tomatoes here too.

Patty

[bugstabber]

I have rhubarb chard, brussel sprouts, carrots and beets in the garden. Oh and kale too.

[MushCreek]

Here's about half of the aforementioned bananas:

[MushCreek]

Double post.