September 20 2022
Nothing left except harvesting the remaining tomatoes and squash. It’s been a very hot summer and yet the tomatoes are slow to ripen, weird. I’m wondering if the consistent temperatures above 90 degrees have something to do with that. I know tomatoes slow down when it gets too hot. The banana squash looks like they should ripen and I will leave them out there until we get a hard frost then prepare them for the freezer.
I stopped weeding fairly early in the process so there is lots of good top growth from the weeds to till back into the soil. I know that this freaks a lot of you good people out, seeing all the weeds going to seed in my garden but it really does help the soil. Every year my soil gets richer and loamier (is that a word?). I would go completely organic except here in the Rockies at 5200 feet our winters are long and cold, and the compost doesn’t break down very well, and I don’t have access to manure, so I do supplement with chemical fertilizers.
It was a good year for corn and Sugar Buns came through with flying colors, again. For us short season folks Sugar Buns has been the way to go with delicious, sweet, small, ears on six and half foot stalks that germinates and produces in less than ideal conditions. Makes for great frozen corn too.
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