Gardening Day!!

It was absolutely gorgeous today! I'd say around 65*-70*. Got lots done and lots planted. My squash plants were still trying to produce, (see below), but I went ahead and pulled them up since I needed to get my garlic planted!! Out of curiosity I left the tomato plants in to see if any of the tomatoes will ripen any more. There is a ton of new growth and blooms on those plants but I highly doubt they'll do anything. I really thought that I'd dug up most of my garlic this summer but it was very obvious that I hadn't! Unfortunately I didn't go and check before I ordered more garlic, so anyone that wants garlic this summer.... all going well I should have a bunch of it!! :) I think the raspberries are about done. There isn't very many more to pick! Pretty much picked clean. There is some mold starting on some of them but very few have it since there's very few left. I went out and picked and ate this afternoon. I'm still astounded at how many raspberries I was able to pick this fall. I'm sure it'll be many years before we have a fall like this one!

I also planted some swiss chard, broccoli and lettuce. They're calling for a warmer than normal winter so I thought I'd give it a shot. Maybe it'll last all winter! Should of had those three planted a month ago but time tends to scarce for me! Today I just decided to MAKE time. Lawn also got a much needed mowing! I'm really, really hoping that it rains this week. Now that it's everything is planted it needs some moisture! The ground in the garden area is unbelievably dry in areas. The planter boxes aren't too bad but they certainly could use some water. The lawn is pretty moist since the long grass was keeping it wet and it's in the shade most the day now. They're calling for rain but this year a 'good soaking' being forecast means that it'll spit a little bit of rain and be done. Finger's crossed that forecast will actually verify!! The radar isn't looking all that promising though. Everything appears to be moving northwest into Washington and missing us. :( We'll see what tomorrow morning brings! Lots of wind today though, which typically happens in El Nino years with lots of split flow. The jet stream splits and send stuff to Washington and to California and pretty much leaves us high and dry with the southern most remnants of moisture.

Tomato plants-Certainly doesn't look like the plants typically do in October- end of October at that! The box behind is where I planted the broccoli, swiss chard and lettuce.

New blooms and growth on the tomato plants.

Will we get more cucumbers?? They'd stopped growing but in the last couple weeks they're growing again!

Ripening!

Still getting peppers!!

The plants have obviously seen better days but were still producing!

The garlic that I missed!

Maybe I'll be able to pull some potatoes from the compost bin??!

I think this is a sunflower. It's a  bit different in that it has lots of shots growing off the main stalk and each seems to have a flower at the end. The flowers are pretty small. It's growing in the compost bin.

Lots of rose hips but lots of blooms still too.

Still producing tomatoes. I'm curious if these will ripen or not.

The swiss chard, lettuce and Broccoli is planted here.

My garlic bed. This whole thing has garlic! This is where the squash plants were. The garlic growing is what I dug up and transplanted. The other side has the garlic that I ordered.

Where to put the extra plants that I pulled???

Found a spot! :) Hopefully they do okay! This box tends to stay wetter so we'll see!

Well, this got taken upside down but you get the idea! These were the squash that grew from the compost bin! I'm cooking one tonight. So I'll see what it's like!

Nice big bloom. :)

Anybody want some bulbs??? I planted a honeysuckle and these were where I planted it.