Welcome to my Starting a garden Post #28 🌱 🙂 Fall has arrived in Vermont.
Frost on the grass this morning.
As lovely and fall-like as they are on the vine...
We brought in the last of the pumpkins and squash.
Plus a couple of onions and a garlic.
Now for the sad task of the day...
We started clearing more of the beds. This bed had pumpkins, squash and tomatoes.
Next up - Tomatoes and peppers bed before clearing.
All the tomatoes out. Only peppers left.
We decided to try and move some of the peppers indoors for the winter.
We took one jalapeno pepper, one bell pepper and one sweet pepper. Not sure about the plan for the winter yet. But at least they are out of the cold.
We also emptied out the tomato pots. They were all root bound. A few even put roots out through the bottom of the pot into the ground like this one. We knew the pots were a bit small but didn't realize they were this cramped 😅
We saved some of the green tomatoes. Going to try some green tomato salsa.
Since we were in winterizing mode, we mulched the blueberries. They were new this spring so this will be their first winter.
Also mulched the rasperries.
Next we moved on to the fruit trees.
We cleaned up the grass around the fence and added fresh mulch.
The fruit trees all look much better. Hopefully they will come back gangbusters next year 🤞
The end of a beautiful day 😃 Nothing as satisfying as a super productive day in the garden. Have a great week!
Bonus pics:
Signs of fall at the lake. This is the photo of the dock I always take... dock out, only the boat lift left behind.
And fall colors are starting... more to come 😍
Cool to see all this, I like this fresh food what you get here ☺👌👌👌🍷
Food always tastes best fresh from the garden 👍
True :)
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Nice pumpkins, perfect for Halloween... I also sometimes bring some plants inside, mostly herbs like basil or parsley but never a success... And very cool pictures at the end of the post, the colors are coming.
Thanks. Those pepper plants are massive. I think they need a good pruning but I want to wait to make sure they don't go into shock from the move. We are driving up to Stowe tomorrow. I think there will be good colors.
the squash and pumpkin look amazing!
I am curious to see how the peppers overwinter indoors. If you have success, I may try and find a place to over winter mine, this next fall
Thanks 🙂 the pepper plants are still adjusting to being indoors. We'll see how they do 🤞