The Start of the Cleansing

Normally we start terminating the plants when it gets sufficiently cold enough that the plants would just die anyway. However, with our inconsistent weather patterns lately, there hasn't been a good time to go all out with the pliers. As such, we just started pulling up the ones that will definitely not bear anymore edibles. We'll just go through a general list with some quality photos taken this morning.

So watermelon is a bust but it looks so happy that we haven't touched it yet.

Peppers are still going strong but it is a bit top heavy. As it turns out, the peppers here do change color (though the green ones are edible, just not as sweet as colored ones-as such, the variety is likely bell peppers). It seems as though the strategy of pairing up the peppers could only work for so long (Sorry Mur :D)

I'm not sure if Annie mentioned this before but yeah the zucchinis were the first to check out. (As of now, we are blaming that on the weather hahaha...... o_o)

The biggest contribution of the kitchen box this year was the funny billiard squashes things.

I don't know where all the leaves of the okra went...if anyone can point out when they started falling off that would be appreciated :). Once we slice off the ones on top, we can cull it (roses add a nice touch).

There's two varieties of tomatoes here, the box in the middle and the weed box behind it (also some random ones in the okra). One appears to be the type we grew last year and the other is beefsteak tomatoes. At this point we can probably pull out the beefsteak tomatoes since all the fruit is likely either rotted or done growing.

And hey! Potatoes seem to be growing well. Can't wait till they die on their own.

Here lies the squash...oh wait there's still a bit of green (unless it is a weed). Its season is long since over so it can go up for the chopping block.

I feel like I forgot something that starts with C...cantaloupe? Nah we never had cantaloupe *sweats

This is both the tomatoes (see the hint of red) and the peppers (the tomatoes seem to like their space, keep in mind for next year). Mrs. Bauer made a suggestion where we could collect the seeds from this variety of tomatoes since it grew pretty well so that's cool.

Also, it seems like the fungus or mold has run its course (perhaps with cooling temperatures and less wetness). The worst casualties were the squash related veggies and the tomatoes seemed to hold up in the end.

End of this week. See ya!