Seasonal Changes

The summer garden is looking a little shabby, but the fall garden is rockin’. The shabby garden is still delivering a few tomatoes, green beans and okra. The peppers are the real stars. The ghost peppers are such a pretty plant that they will get a place in the front yard next year. The pale green foliage contrasts nicely with the orange and red fruits.

The figs have slowed down to just enough to eat. That is fine because the mustard is almost ready to pick. The arugula will soon grace a salad along with the spinach and romaine lettuce. The mesclun will be a few more weeks. Leftover spring seeds were used for the sugar peas, so they need to be replanted. Germination was spotty.

Every year new tricks are tried, new lessons are learned. On the dark side, planting green beans and okra together was a disaster. The green bean are dragging the okra down and making both crops hard to pick. On the bright side, The 8’ fence worked to keep the deer out pretty well. It was a vinyl fabric fence and it is not holding up too poorly, but in the winter season it will be replaced with and 8’ fence covered with 2” X 4” wire.







David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/