Not much growing here. There are broccoli side heads and a few beets and one watermelon. My son just harvested the carrots...beautiful crop.

Now there are some leaves to be chopped up with the mower and sprinkled on some beds and tilled in.

Not much growing here either, we're supposed to get snow this weekend.

In the greenhouse, though, I have lots of lettuce, an old horse tank full of half grown carrots, some green onions and some spinach along with a single rosemary plant. We'll see how long they can survive in there!

Annie

No frost yet. Still getting tomatoes:)

Today I planted the spinach seed for that early Spring harvest, 3 rows just in case that bunny out there gets curious. Hopefully the clover in the lawn will keep him/her happy, hope it's a him, nyuk. Still picking the last of the persimmons, must have given away more an 300 so far. We were shopping in both Trader Joe's and Wegmans recently and TJs had pathetic looking persimmons less than half the size of ours for .89/each. Wegmans had nice looking persimmons equal to ours at a whopping $2.50 each, Nutz!

We might get our first killing frost by Tuesday morning so I'll pull up carrots which are nice size. The collards are doing very well and the late turnips are plumping up. So far this autumn Mother Nature has been good to us here.

I hacked down my Brussels Sprouts today, they grew well considering they took 6 months to grow. It's been a three years in the making to produce good Sprouts through the trial and error method, before I decided to read the instructions on the subject. Now I need to find out how to blanch and freeze them.

I've had a lot of frosts over the last 3 weeks but tonight it's going to a hard one down to the low 20's. Spent 1/2 a day cleaning up the garden focusing on removing anything stuck in the ground.

I have the worst aphids I've ever seen in all my 60 plus years of gardening. The savoy cabbges have them like carpeting on the leaves, pick a leaf and your hands are covered. Even the winter lettuces have far too many. Forecast says 19 degrees Monday night--aphids are good to 15 degrees, but I hope most of them die.

laceyvail, here too. I washed the kale numerous times, sprayed it with a hose, sprayed with soapy water then a hose and still had to physically remove them when they were brought in to wash, they've never been this bad. I probably should have broken out the neem oil, but I didn't have that many greens, just enough to eat but not can.

Tonight will be the test of my greenhouse lettuce, the low is projected to be 16F now.

Annie

No aphids here but back when I tried growing Brussels Sprouts they would coat them like paint. If anything, there is a Ladybug explosion going on here now and they would love to chow down on yawl's aphids. The recent rise in temperature has drawn them out of their hibernating hiding places, they'll be in for a surprise by Tuesday morning when temps plummet down into the 20'sF. Otherwise, all is well in the garden, busy raking leaves for future composting and collecting pine needles for next year's mulching between the rows.

The weather here has been fairly mild over the past few weeks, no temps below 29F and that only happened once so far. Carrots, Turnips, Collards are being picked weekly, with just 1 lonely late Cabbage out there. The Spring planted Spinach has popped up and they enjoy this extended mild stretch. That 29F did wipe out the tender summer flowers but the pansies look good. Been busy raking up and storing leaves for next year's compost piles. Also collecting mounds of pine needles to mulch the idle garden and for lining the walking paths between the veggie rows.

The season isn't finished for me even though I'm not growing anything. I'm doing changes and repairs to the garden areas and fences. I pulled out the fence around my smallest garden plot and added 2 feet to the width and shorten the length by 8'. Now it's 34 ft. by 64ft.

It also was an uneven rectangle and was bugging me to death with not enough posts to hang the fence on. So I pulled everything out and started over added 8 more posts , five foot gates at both ends for a drive through with my lawn. Posts are 3' deep and 7 and 9 ft. high.

Those 6"x6" and 4"x 4" posts look expensive and they would be if I paid retail from home depot, but I get them for 70% off retail picking through the Cull pile they have in the back of their stores. I've been picking from the cull pile for 20 + years and all my fence posts are the best bowed and checked pressure treated lumber home depot has to offer.

Tomorrow I'm hanging the fences and looping the 1/2" electric fence ribbon up to seven feet to keep deer out. Then after making the two gates and I'm done! If you're wondering why some posts are 9 foot high its because I ran out of 10 footers and used five 12 footers but didn't want to cut them. I'll eventually get some more 10 footers for 70% off and will switch them out.

UPDATE: I found 2 five foot gates I forgot I had out back in great condition, but they don't fit between the posts. So today I get to pull up two posts and move them over 4 or 5 inches, oh the fun I'm not looking forward to in my old age, but quicker and easier than building new gates.