When we arrive at October, everything looks tired in there save the August lettuce planting, still bright and cheerful just inside the door.
There are a few tomato vines tethered to their strings with fruit still ripening - especially the rangy bright yellow Sun Golds. Warm sunny weather brought us a couple more zucchinis and brave flowers under the mildewy leaves still attract bees - bumblebees mostly as the honeybees prefer working the fields of goldenrod.
My penchant for leaving once-cultivated flowers to self seed yields bountiful crops of calendula, nasturtiums, marigolds and sunflowers growing in random places throughout the tunnel, leaving seed heads that keep the chickadees and goldfinches happy before we fill the bird feeders.
But the star of the show is the trellis with Fortex snap beans still putting out blossoms and each day handfuls of lovely green beans!
My goal is to have the cleanup complete and most beds cleared of their spent plants, vines and weeds before the killing freeze sends the temperatures into the 20s.and ends growing time even under the soaring plastic cover.
Kale, chard and the few carrots will stand the killing freeze that's coming soon and I'll soon stretch floating row cover over their beds in hopes of keeping something green on the table into the winter.
