Tucking the Garden into Bed...

 The garden is still producing a few things like lettuce, spinach, onions and carrots, although production is kind of slow...the rest of the beds have been composted (thanks to the generous donations of compost from Republic Waste!!), and now most of the beds have been thoroughly tilled and are ready to sleep for a "short winter's nap!"  

Mid-January will see use planting broccoli starts, peas, beets, onions and carrots...then we'll watch how things fair through February.  Spring in Utah's Dixie is a wonderful, unpredictable time!!  Thanks to everyone who has helped so much with the garden!  We have just completed our 12th year and the garden has been a wonderful addition to many lives!!  

PEANUT HARVEST

A week ago (Saturday, October 16, 2021) we had our annual peanut harvest. In one hour we were able to dig up two beds of peanuts, and great workers that stripped off all the peanuts. We got 30 gallons of peanuts!! All the kids participated in the "biggest peanut" challenge and everyone won a candy bar or $1 for the Dollar Store!! (Take a look at the GIANT peanut that won biggest peanut. There was one bush with LOTS of these big boys!!)

The green beans (purple and yellow, too!) are starting to produce well, and the onions, lettuce, spinach and beets are coming right along. With the weather cooling down, nothing is really excited to take off!!

Tomato plants start coming out this week and then we start to hibernate for November and December.

Fall Plantings Already!!

 Time was spent last week pulling a lot of dead plants, composting beds and getting things ready for planting today.  We had some great helpers and we were able to plant peas (pre-sprouted), beans, onions, beets, and carrots.  We also picked a LOT of tromboncini (variety of zucchini) that is overtaking the whole southeast corner of the garden!!  And a bunch of tomatoes!!  We picked one of the last cantaloupes, and watermelon.  The cantaloupe was sweet, although crisp.  The watermelon wasn't as sweet as earlier ones.  It was a great day!

 We may have dug the potatoes out a bit earlier than needed, however, we needed the bed to plant our pumpkins in!!  We still got some excellent potatoes!!  We also got a great first picking of Zucchini, we replanted some of the bowls of yellow squash that didn't come up, replanted some peanuts for the same reason, wrapped more tomato plants, "trellised" Armenian cucumbers that are spreading everywhere, and counted FOUR little watermelons on our "volunteer" plant by the water fountain!

The high temperatures (over 100!) the past few days have taken their toll on our beautiful lettuce beds!!  The lettuce is still pretty, but it is very bitter!!  So far, the spinach is still tasting great, but I can't imagine it will last much longer.  104 degrees is a friend to the peanuts, but not the lettuce!!