I think I am about done with my garden this year. Sad because in the past I could usually push it into late October. For some reason it was not as health and productive as in years past. I did not have the lovely compost pile to till into the garden this year. I relied on a soil test to tell me what I needed and followed its advice. But a lot of my tomnato plants just did not produce. Could be my late planting or many other things. Like I have gotten older and lazier or some such.
My San Marzano tomatoes did well and I have canned a few quarts. I will be planting them again next year.
Well for me, it will be dreaming of next year and building a big old pile of compost for the garden.
Most likely the lack of compost. No substitute for good ole home grown compost!LOL
You and the others that planted that brand of tomatoes have convinced me that I will need to plant some of those next year. This year is the first year that we have planted a bunch of romas.
They have done well too, except for the blossom end rot. None of the other tomatoes had that even though they had the same soil in the buckets.
Any way, I am saving some seeds from the romas to plant next year, and I am going to try to grow some in a pot indoors this winter.
Last year, when I cleaned out my little garden (dead tomato plants, etc.) late in the season, I made it about a week looking at the bare dirt. It made me very sad ... surprisingly so .... and I had to plant something. I planted some cold weather crops and just those little sprigs of green (didn’t do any real growing until spring) made me feel a whole lot better. I guess this is the long-version-roundabout-way to say: what about doing a fall garden?