Sunday, September 5, 2010

Winds of change

I've been super busy the last few weeks with work starting up again.  Unfortunately that means my garden has been neglected.  Here's what happens when you don't pay attention to zucchini for awhile.
To the left you can see some normal size zucchini in the pot.  The ones on the counter are about 2 feet long.  Ahhhh!!!! I'm so over zucchini.  We gave all of these to a friend.  He said he wanted 1.  We gave him all of them plus a pumpkin, some cucumbers, and some tomatoes.  We're ready for new crops!


The next round of crops will include winter squash, cabbage, beets, onions, spinach, chard, and lettuces.  I'd also like to put in some cauliflower, broccoli, and brussel sprouts.  I may look into buying some transplants for those.  I thought I was going to have a new planter box where I was going to put all of the greens.  But that's not looking very probable right now, so I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to organize the garden.  All of these seeds say to plant in September in my area.  I've only torn out 1/3 of my summer garden so far.  I think I'm just going to completely tear out the zucchini.  That will give me tons of room.  I was trying to research if it's okay to plant winter squash in the same place that I just had summer squash, but I haven't found an answer yet.


It will be very interesting to see if my fall garden is as prolific as my summer garden was.  It's like starting from scratch again!