it is saturday so i was out to the garden early...it has rained overnight with enough precipitation to preclude the need to water so i stopped by just to have a look around just before the harvest days event rolls in on tuesday...( noon til two p.m. for the interested...unless there is inclement weather..which strikes me as odd since the weather is a serious part of the garden and the plants seem to take it pretty well in stride )...things were damp...
autumnal signs are multiplying...the cucumber vines are pretty much finished...the orange cucumbers may be holding some viable seed however...some are disintegrating in the beds...there may be no need to plant next spring...there may be multiple volunteers...
the asparagus is fine even though it has been invaded front and back by squash vines...no worries...those woody stems can handle it...
no new spears to report...however the berries ate still ripening...seed soon...
difficult as it may be to see in the photo, one of the potato plants in the back of the asparagus bed was finished..it yielded enough elmer's blue fingerling spuds to serve as a side with lunch sometime...and the smaller ones can be used as seed...
most of the cornstalks are still standing...
some are not...
most of the ones left standing have been worked over by the squirrels looking for lunch...except for that multi-colored dent someone opened but no one will touch...too much starch, too little flavor apparently...
as a final note, that marker of climate change...the non-native carolina horse nettle is thriving on the o=south end of the inland sea...it has moved in...colonized..and is here to stay...one presumes birds to be the vector of its spread to the area...however it arrived, it has settled in for a stay.
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