Fall Garden

I don't know why most of my seeds didn't germinate. Most of the corn I planted, and all of the beats and carrots I planted, failed to sprout. In August, the nice rain we'd experienced previously all but ceased. And it was the hottest part of the summer when I was scheduled to plant my fall garden, so the seedlings I started indoors all withered and died: lettuce, tomatoes, broccoli, and cucumber. And my pumpkin seedlings were chewed to the ground by some critter. So I had to go buy seedlings from the nursery: bush green beans, broccoli, and cabbage. Not much else was available. So here are the pictures of my currently pathetic garden:

A re-planting of cucumber by seed. Now I'm combating aphids again. We shall see if it lives, let alone produces anything before the frost.


I planted a ton of corn on two beds, but these spindly little things are all that came up.





At least the short stalks are producing something.

Small and scarce, yet way tastier than store-bought.

My pepper plants continued to grow taller, even if they took a break on producing peppers. Maybe the bees couldn't find the flowers with all their bushiness.


I was pleased to discover a few peppers still coming along after a month or two of nothing.


The sweet peppers never did produce much, so I was surprised to find this one.

This is the last of the peppers this fall. Actually, this is the most sweet peppers I've gotten out of the whole season. I think the plants have to be tall and very mature before they produce anything.

I don't know why pole beans are not recommended for the fall. Maybe it takes too long for them to grow before producing. Even so, these little bushes aren't making very many beans.



This cabbage is so cute! Potato bugs (aka rolly pollys) think it's yummy though.


This broccoli is pretty too, now that I squished all the little caterpillars that were eating it.