re: 2023 Fall Garden Thread

Good morning from the garden. Still no rain, so running the irrigation again.

Foreground in this picture is the sugar pie pumpkins. They are doing very well.


Lots of bees out this morning. One big bumblebee landed on my coffee cup for a few seconds. I can just about imagine how most people would’ve reacted to that. But I wanted to pet it. The sugar pie pumpkins are getting bigger and bigger, and I think I’ve counted at least 9 this morning!



What’s left of the spring/summer garden. The purple hulls are looking almost spent. But they’re still producing. Peppers are doing just fine and I may leave them through the fall. I see no need to grow anything else in that spot. And I’m waiting for about a half dozen watermelon to finish up and then I’m pulling them. We’ve been giving a bunch away and have had just about enough of them.


I need to get in there and prune some of the older dying leaves off of the Gold Medal and Captain Jack pumpkins. Still no fruit from them yet. I looked back at my pictures from last year and I didn’t get my first Connecticut Field pumpkin started until the 2nd week of September. Hopefully I get one sooner than that with these.


It actually feels pretty good outside this morning. In the shade, at least. There’s a nice breeze blowing. The bees are still busy doing their thing. I need to open them up soon and check on them, but I also don’t want to catch heat stroke. So maybe it can wait.