the garden is still green

got off work and went to the garden just to see how things are...there has been enough rain in the past few days ( about an inch and a half in the past week ) that there was no need to water...just reconnaissance today...

and there is still quite a lot to see...there are green tomatoes in my bed and just about everywhere else as well...and there ar still multiple blooms on the plants...

they may be monochromatic...

they still have a striking family resemblance to their potato cousins...

and, to a lesser extent, to another cousin in the garden, carolina horse nettle...

the squash plants are still blooming and producing...

the asparagus is still very robust..we are a bit more than a month away from the traditional mulch...

one of the plants is still producing "berries"...

and another has come out in a rash of very late flowers which, unfortunately, probably won't amount to much in the way of seed...

over in my bed there is more than a few tomatoes going on...

the winter wheat is in various stages of development...there are new sprouts...

and more than a few have produced second leaves which is a good sign in over wintering terms...this will be going on fro a time yet...no idea when the first hard frost will be...october fifteenth is the first average frost date...but averages lie and last year it was more toward the end of the month..we will see as we watch the garden shift seasons...but not stop.