Harvesting Still in the Fall?
By Stephen Gode on September 25, 2012, 11:51am
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Absolutely, when vegetable plants are fully matured, they can produce until frost or cold enough temperatures. Some are able to find means of protecting the plants to last even through the winter.
Make sure to keep picking vegetables throughout the harvesting period, because the vegetables are tender and have better flavor (I have to listen to my own advice from the above picture). Also, the plant will be encouraged to keep producing. When vegetables are fully matured, they take a good amount of energy away from the plant and may even start to die. Typically, the plants main purpose is fully grow seeds and thicken any skin, pod, etc., to last the winter for continuing generations, if possible.
There have been some difficult conditions with regards to the weather. Rainfall was fairly limited in the spring and produced drought conditions more so at times. We are still down several inches of rainfall for the year in many towns. Rainfall has been not too regular enough. The proper rainfall amount and periods are usually never a happy medium. Most vegetables don’t even require a lot of water, but need to be regular enough and not promote disease and fungus problems. We have been having some significant rainfalls recently, but not quite regular enough. Also, we had too much rainfall amounts for my garden and faced me with some disease issues. I don’t really like to put chemicals and the end of the growing season is approaching.
This year, I have been trying to produce organic vegetables. I did use some non-organic fertilizers and some organic garden soil, but still trying for purely organic vegetables. Though, I have been better than the past by not at all using Sevin regularly for insect control. I know there are better natural or organic choices even from household products. Overall, the harvest was very well so far this year. How are other gardeners doing? Leave comments. Happy Gardening! Enjoy the Fall weather!
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