Garden update

I've taken a little break from blogging for a couple reasons: vacation, catching up from vacation, and my best friend's wedding. All which I will tell you about! But first, an update on our little garden!

We have already harvested all of the onions and beets.



We made pickled beets and roasted veggies with both the onions and beets. We also used onions in other meals since we had quite a few. We even ate the beet greens. Looking ahead, not sure whether we will do onions and beets again in this space. We loved them and it was fun trying them, but for the amount of space they take up, you really don't get much from them. Each stalk only has 1 beet/onion and for our small space, not sure it was worth it.

We've also had a ton of green beans and cucumbers. I planted a ton of both since we love them so much. We've had cucumbers almost every meal for the last couple weeks! We love to slice them really thin, add vinegar, water, salt, and pepper, let them sit for a little bit, and then eat. Almost like pickles but so fresh!


Our tomatoes aren't looking as good as we'd hoped. Don't know why. Our pepper plants are taking awhile, too.

We've also enjoyed basil, thyme, rosemary, and a few strawberries.

The Garden is still hanging on

I think we had one of the first frosts recently, but our garden is still hanging on by threads.

For some reason, the Roma tomatoes are just now coming to life, so we probably won't get to eat them because it's just getting too cold. I guess we should've planted them sooner. We wondered what their problem was over the summer because we hardly got anything. The cherry tomatoes are pretty much done, except for a few stragglers here and there.

The green peppers are going strong, but again, it's getting too cold and they are going to die soon.


The larger red tomatoes ("Celebrity" and "Big Boy") are pretty much done. The ones that are red on the vine are eaten through or rotten. The green ones are struggling, but I think I may try making a fried green tomato before it's too late.

Goodbye warm weather. Hello 30s (at night!) and 40s temps.