Monthly Avatar: September, Show Off Your Garden Harvest!

@sanderson wrote:My thought is to continue with the Harvest theme for October.  In Nov we can have a winter garden theme?

I was thinking maybe "Fall Colors" which could still include "Harvest". This is the one I want, but it isn't really either one. I don't even know what it's gonna be when it grows up.  

For (late) September I switched my avatar to my tomatoes. I had one to a few of most of the types I grew get together for a group photo:


For October I'll switch to my winter squash. Tetsukabuto, Burpee's Butterbush, and Trombocino (thanks, CC!) ...and a plastic beetle.

hm, I guess my sole tiny Delicata must still be in the garden. I didn't get any Hidatsa. My main garden doesn't really get the sun needed for squash, and I have conditions that favor powdery mildew... but I keep trying to grow them anyhow. The butternuts were grown in an Earthtainer on my front porch, which gets more sun than the main garden, but the yield still could have been better. I planted the tomatoes in front of them, and the tomatoes got taller faster than the squash, shading them.

OMIGOSH, Beetles -- that's what a tromboncino looks like? If I get one of those, my family will still be laughing at me when Christmas rolls around. They already think I'm crazy for all the goofy things I try to grow. 

@countrynaturals wrote:OMIGOSH, Beetles -- that's what a tromboncino looks like? If I get one of those, my family will still be laughing at me when Christmas rolls around. They already think I'm crazy for all the goofy things I try to grow. 

Yep. It was high enough up on the trellis that it grew mostly straight - otherwise they curl. It did 'hit bottom' and I couldn't figure out how to elevate it without damaging the vine. I was terrified the voles were going to get it before it matured. Frost happened instead. It looked like it had gotten some damage from the frost (I think/hope the others are ok....) so I roasted it up after taking the photograph. It tastes bit like butternut squash, and I bet it would be tastier if it had actually matured and cured. Maybe next year.

@BeetlesPerSqFt wrote:

@countrynaturals wrote:OMIGOSH, Beetles -- that's what a tromboncino looks like? If I get one of those, my family will still be laughing at me when Christmas rolls around. They already think I'm crazy for all the goofy things I try to grow. 

Yep. It was high enough up on the trellis that it grew mostly straight - otherwise they curl. It did 'hit bottom' and I couldn't figure out how to elevate it without damaging the vine. I was terrified the voles were going to get it before it matured. Frost happened instead. It looked like it had gotten some damage from the frost (I think/hope the others are ok....) so I roasted it up after taking the photograph. It tastes bit like butternut squash, and I bet it would be tastier if it had actually matured and cured. Maybe next year.

+1 ... amazing.

Wow!  Great harvest!

Are we doing this one again this year?

Absolutely!

My Blauhilde Pole Bean harvest today.

@trolleydriver wrote:My Blauhilde Pole Bean harvest today.

Aren’t they the bomb?  Love them!  They are the gift that keeps on giving!

Just got this today.  Had to dispose of a lot due to me not being here...but anyway, here we are in September!

https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/19/25/77/83/b2db2c10.jpg

Delicata x4, they are over.  One melon, true charentois, 2 more out there, also done flowering.  Few red and green maters, tons of Ping Tung eggplant, pole and bush beans, tons of peppers in stages of red, all sweet.  Not pictured, lettuces!  They are in the fridge.  One cuke!  Indian Dance.

My asparagus beans are amazing this year. These were 7' up a tree. I had to stand on a chair to get them.

Fall finds our tomato plants 10' tall.

YIKES, OG! That's a tomato jungle! There could be a secondhand lion lurking in there.

@countrynaturals wrote:YIKES, OG! That's a tomato jungle! There could be a secondhand lion lurking in there.

I know! I've been watching to make sure there is not a Python or something hiding in there! 

I have them "confined" in 8' Texas Tomato Cages, and they all came out the top of the cages by a little over 2'. I am having  to use a step ladder to pick the tomatoes now. And, to make it more difficult, I had to wrap bird netting around them because the Mockingbirds were eating the tomatoes as soon as they started turning red.

In this picture you can see the relative height of the tomatoes to the other raised bed vegetables. The bed on the right is all tomatoes.

I'm still laughing at how tall those tomatoes are... And those beans go on forever! This thread is hysterical.
Nicely done, folks.

@CapeCoddess wrote:I'm still laughing at how tall those tomatoes are... And those beans go on forever! This thread is hysterical.
Nicely done, folks.

YES!!!

Lordy, very well done!

Mrs TD made this ...

@trolleydriver wrote:Mrs TD made this ...

And, did you have to pose for it? 

@trolleydriver wrote:Mrs TD made this ...

I LOVE IT! What's his name?

@countrynaturals wrote:I LOVE IT! What's his name?

Cornelius is his name since he is there to protect our corn.

@trolleydriver wrote:

@countrynaturals wrote:I LOVE IT! What's his name?

Cornelius is his name since he is there to protect our corn.

Makes sense.

@countrynaturals wrote:

@trolleydriver wrote:

@countrynaturals wrote:I LOVE IT! What's his name?

Cornelius is his name since he is there to protect our corn.

Makes sense.

LOL!