It is now the middle of October & I see a month has passed since I last posted. The garden is still flourishing & actually producing more tomatoes & peppers than ever. There are 6 little watermelon growing & a ton of blooms waiting to open. I don’t think they will make it unless our first frost is way off in the future. After this years rain deluge I won’t rule anything out.

Since I wasn’t able to dig all the beds I wanted to the past few months I have decided to cover the area with cardboard & some kind of mulch/compost through the winter. The field next to the garden was mowed down a few weeks ago & I am thinking of filling up the wheelbarrow a few times (100) with the cuttings & placing it all over the cardboard. I started yesterday & after two hours got some cardboard laid down.

Over the past month I must have made over 10 batches of pesto & dried a few lbs of basil & given quite a bit of it away. I still have plenty left to harvest before the first frost. I think I will dry a bunch & make more pesto to freeze for the winter.

We had a few rain storms over the past month & one brewing when I finally took the dogs out to the garden. I will be taken them out a lot more now that I have a better way of bringing them out on my own. They really love going to the farm & it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be keeping them out of the beds.

There were also beautiful sunsets and sunrises that I was able to witness at the garden. I can’t help but take a ton of photos and just stare at the sky instead of work in the garden. I feel like I am missing something if I don’t take it all in.

It seems the tomatoes are more abundant than ever now, not only are there more fruit on the vines but the vines have grown like crazy. I have had to put up more support for them & now that it is cooler again, I am finding more pests on all the plants. It is still in the high 70’s mid 80’s during the day so hopefully we will have another month or more to harvest the garden.