I know, I have been quiet. I have good reasons.

The garden has absolutely been in limbo for the last 6 weeks, easy. The weather has been very mild and damp. As a result, most of the tomatoes have just been chillin, no ripening and mostly just getting rotten.

I have been getting quiet a few bell and jalapeno peppers out of the garden in the interim. I stopped counting, but I want to say that I have taken at least 50 bells, and over 100 jalapenos out in the last few weeks.


Lots of the tomatoes are coming out looking like this. They are just too big, and they are starting to split at the top way before they are ripe. The good news is this doesnt ruin the whole tomato. Just slice off the top and you are good to go. I actually think the cooler weather have made the tomatoes sweeter. Not sure why, just what I was tasting.


Current pic of the garden today. The tomatoes are coming to an end. Pretty much everything left on the vine is not ripening with health. The only healthy tomatoes on the vine are ones that are green. So, I am taking them down. I started this afternoon, but it began to rain so I stopped about here:


This is how it looks right now with roughly half of the plants cut out and thrown away. They have been shedding tomatoes as I have picked them up, and I have found a few that actually look pretty good.

This is the mess left behind. A lot of what is on the left is the grass from the part of the backyard that I am currently ripping out to make room for garden 2010, but most of whats on the right side of the wheelbarrow is from the garden this summer. MESS. I am going to have most of this hauled away this year so I can start next year fully cleared and can compost properly.

I am going to get more up in the coming weeks as I start to get the rototiller out and working on the other part of the lawn. Also, all of that taller foliage in the backround of the photo above will be coming out as well. I am going to try to have everything completely bare by the first snow. Its a TON of work, but I think if I get some done every weekend, it should be enough.

Now lets just hope for no October snow (crossing fingers).