Its been a few weeks since I have last posted about the our garden and most recently being super excited about planting Pumpkins, Butternut and Acorn squash. Well I, yes I planted, DT was out of town and I actually planted them. But the next day we got lots of rain and it rained solid for 3 days, and our squashes never grew. Ultimately I think I planted my squash to deep and they drowned. I was so sad, I had such high hopes for my squash, but now its too late to plant again, but I will next year! Good news though 2 pumpkins lived and are thriving. I am still keeping my hopes alive for them and I can’t wait to see how they will do.
This weekend DT will till the garden, make rows and plant our winter garden. He will plant cabbage, carrots, brussels sprouts, broccoli, spinach, lettuce, swiss chard, turnips and sweet potatoes.
Pie Pumpkin
We still have huge okra plants growing probably 8 feet tall.
After all the rain and slightly cooler weather our banana peppers are producing again.
as is our bell peppers
As I was walking around our garden, I noticed our Satsuma tree is loaded, and they will be ready to eat around december.
as well as our grapefruit tree
and lemon tree
and the shallot onions are doing well!
Hopefully next week I will have all the details of our winter garden!
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Lovely garden! I can’t wait until we buy a house and can have a garden of our own, I have to make do with herbs for now 🙂
Oh, you have a lemon tree! I love it!
Wow, fantastic garden! A little more reading helped me discover you’re in TX; I’m in IL, where we are tearing everything summery down about now, preparing for the cold that is fast on its way here!
Great job planting!
Lori (aka Plans4You and Serenity in the Suburbs)
the winter garden is in, I don’t think you ever stop working hard. you are an amazing lady. If you want to wander down my road I’m home.
That okra is amazing! My sister would go nuts for that – she loves okra, especially fried (Southern dish I’m sure). 🙂
Holy mackerel. What a fantastic garden. It looks wonderful to me and I can’t believe that you are growing grapefruit!!
Enjoy!
Leann
You have a lovely garden. I love the fruit trees! Thank you so much for sharing about it. Have a wonderful weekend!
I wish our garden could look like that during winter…ours is already dead and ready to be tilled under for the snow. :::sigh:::
Oh wow!! You have a lot of GOODIES growing and they look so healthy and beautiful! Well done.
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Wow, great work and success. I just planted my fall-winter garden in Arizona. We are trying a raised garden this year. The rabbits, squirrels and other critters are naughtly and eat everything.
Sandra
I’m so envious! I wish I had a yard big enough for a vegetable garden. I guess I could if I ripped out all my roses but I can’t do that! I guess I made the choice of bouquets over veggies!!! I wish I could have both!!!
Thank you for joining in on my Show and Tell!!!
I love the pictures you S&T of your garden! I’m already longing for spring next year to till and plant again. We just harvesting our squash and the last of our cucumbers – then I will have to return to the grocery store produce section. Sigh.
Thanks for visiting my blog. Where are you in this world that you can plant wonderful vegetables this late in the season? I am jealous! I have a funny story about pumpkins-Several years ago, my husband decided to ‘compost’ our pumpkin in a small pile he created… months later.. it sprouted, and started to grow. We were amazed! We got like 3 or 4 great sized pumpkins on accident. 🙂
beautiful garden, may your bounty overflow.
What is a Satsuma?
You’ve got a beautiful garden!
As always so beautiful! We are cleaning our garden out here and putting it to bed for the winter. I am so glad you share yours with all so we can enjoy and be inspired for next year! Cannot wait to see ripe lemons!
Still so envious of your garden – the trees are amazing!