September 2019
September 2019 – Garden Club Vegetable Talk
- Planting fall greens such as Mizuna, Lettuce, Radish, Pac Choi, Winter Peas, Mustard, Spinach
- Picking beans, tomatoes, tomatillos, cucumbers, ground cherries, fall raspberries, plums, grapes, eggplants, peppers and second crop figs
- Making sauerkraut from the cabbage 4 ½ gallons today
- Drying off onions and garlic for storage
- Saving seeds from tomatoes, ground cherries and lemon cucumber
- Letting lettuce go to seed so it will come up as an early crop in the spring
- Freezing and dehydrating crop, currently making grapes into lots of raisins, tomatoes and figs as they come along
- Starting to clean out areas and fill the compost bin
- Making copious notes in my garden book about what to grow and not next year, things to change and wish list.
- Sent in a soil sample for testing on a couple of beds I am not happy with.
- Had our first crop of nectarines this summer, very delicious.
- Cut down one plum and some nut trees and are starting to shop for other fruit trees to replace them.
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