Garden update, Sept. 10

​Greeting fellow gardeners, the fall cleanup has begun. This week I was able to pull 1 row of tomatoes plants. I also went through and gleaned off all the tomatoes from the remaining plants. Red, yellow, GREEN and mush. I have a box at the end of the church parking lot with green tomatoes in. We have been offering free green tomatoes for quite a number of years. Amazing how many people stop and take some. Cauliflower is all harvested, the last 2 weeks was a whirlwind of activity as the cauliflower came in fast and furious. I was harvesting cauliflower and broccoli every day. I never had veggies come in that fast and all at once like this year.  This Saturday cabbage will be on the menu again. We should be harvesting cabbage all the way to the end.  
You may or may not have noticed but our wedding trellis was over grown this year. I planted bird house gourds. They went wild. We will be picking them, setting them in the garage for several months to dry. When they are dry we can paint them or turn them into bird houses. These gourds were grown by the native Americans just for the purpose of attracting purple martins to their villages. Really cool. String beans and lima beans round out our Saturday morning.
I was away last Saturday We had a wedding in Ithaca New York. Beautiful country up there. 
Thank you to all the volunteers who helped out in my absence. The weather is turning cooler with frost just around the corner....maybe...