Gypsy peppers and Cherokee Purple tomatoes
Our October garden is surprising us with its bounty. Sounds strange to even say October garden.
We still have peppers here and there. The tomatoes are almost all gone with mostly tommy-toes hanging on. Many of them will continue to grow until the first hard frost. The okra and malabar spinach will continue to produce till then too.
Our late planting of green beans is still making as is the butter beans we planted early in the summer.
A late planting of cucumbers is producing a few although the plants look pretty pitiful.
The candy roaster we left growing has really taken off since we got ample rain.
The rain has also really helped our fall planting of turnips and mustard greens. In addition it’s given new life to our early spring planting of kale which I hope will continue to grow through the winter.
The nasturtiums and herbs are still going strong. Many of the flowers I coaxed along through the long dry spells of summer have finally taken off.
It’s been a strange gardening year. One of the driest I can remember. Yet there was and is still plenty of bright spots, inspiration, and good eating produced by the gardens.
Last night’s video: Garden Tour & Storm Update.
Tipper
Grow garden grow. That’s a great way to be in fall and still enjoying your bounty. Prayers up to all who lost loved ones, homes and anything that meant something or was in their life. May you be comforted by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who is there for all those in need. Tipper you had me in tears last night when you were telling about your beautiful area, your family, and all that was affected by Helene. You are a very special person and have taught so many of us to always think of others first, have compassion for them and do what we can do for them. God be with all those that were harmed in any way.
I see to read on the phone but I’ll go back and catch up when I get power, water and internet back.
My comment has more to do with the storm and yesterday and praying for the utility workers. I am in full agreement that these workers need our prayers and we should be thankful and grateful for them. I also mentioned I had a neighbor that worked as a lineman for my power company. I found out that him and his family members (several homes) that all live on the same road and close to one another, have had their power back on since Monday morning while no one else around him on any of the country roads are even close to getting their power back on. This is day 6 for us and this kind of stuff going on is hard to swallow for me and his other neighbors. Bad as it is for us, from what I have seen or heard the ones in NC are having it a lot worse not only from the lack of power but from the floods. Our so called one day honeymoon was spent at the souvenir shops along beside the river at the bottom of Chimney Rock and Lake Lure, we didn’t have money for the tickets to go up on the rock. We just did a lot of looking.
On a happier note, Tipper I am glad you are still getting things from your garden, between the dry weather and deer any garden I tried to have this year was done for by the start of July.
So many good gifts ! Blessing upon blessing ! Thank you for sharing your sweet heart with us all & reminding us to see the beauty !
I watched your garden tour video last night. It’s still giving you a bounty of vegetables. I kept saying pick them little tomatoes look Tipper there’s more , pick them before something eats them or you might forget them…now if only you could heard me last night You’d probably told me to hush.
At the end I did hush because I got choked up hearing you talk about the floods caused by the hurricane and asking everyone to pray. Your compassion and heart felt call for us to pray was very emotional and moving. Do what we can to help but if we can’t then the one thing we all can do is pray for help.
You reached out to the world for the one thing that is needed most, prayer, because we serve a powerful God who helps in our time of need, moves on hearts to give and provides a way for needs to be met.
I’m helping by donating through our church that is coming up on Friday to one of the mountain areas that was hit hard and are in need of supplies. Our church grill crew is also going up to cook meals to feed anyone who needs meals.
I can’t go, with them, but I am praying for all their protection, for all the victims of this hurricane, all workers helping to rescue and cleanup no matter where they are coming from. Asking God’s protection and strength for everyone.
Sending you and everyone who needs it hugs, love and prayers.
I enjoyed your garden tour so much. its been very dry here in east central Indiana this summer also. We did get a couple inches of rain from Hurricane Helene, we are thankful. Your flowers are beautiful❤. I am praying for all who were in the path of the hurricane. My heart breaks for everyone. God bless you and yours❤❤
praise God Tipper, you did the work and God gave the increase, Jesus is coming soon
Enjoyed last night’s video. Still so much lush greenery and the flowers are beautiful.
It’s been on my mind how many times I’ve recently cried out to God due to the weather in North Carolina. For months I’ve prayed for rain so that your hard work would produce food for your family, and then the floods from Helene and devastations like I’ve never seen in my lifetime, and with the same weather system that saved your garden and destroyed whole towns; the nature of this planet is not in our hands, but is God’s creation. We live in a world where the good comes with the bad, so we turn to Him, asking for His blessings and His help. When so much is out of our hands and beyond our ability to control, our Father is there, hearing every word we have and need to say. Thank God for prayer.
Enjoyed the video tour. J hope Matt’s family gets their power back soon.
So glad you pulled those chestnuts out of the fire. Those green peppers and dusky red tomatoes in a farm basket look so good. Feeds the eyes first. I expect you will be wanting to have a second summer garden now. I would like to do that if I had the room. Anyhow all the rain did end watering the winter garden plants.
I’ve been enjoying and sharing my Cherokee Purple tomatoes. I will continue to grow them from now on… thanks to ya’ll.
Love seeing your garden beauty. Our garden still has roses coming along. I’ll tell ya, we got us some Campfire Roses and they produce all season and they start yellow and turn pink. They are beautiful! Try them somewhere in your yard.
The photo you added to this post of your peppers and tomatoes is just beautiful. I enjoyed walking around your garden with you last evening. Our peppers have taken off since we have gotten rain too. The plants have grown taller and are full of blooms and small peppers. We have hot cherry, banana, and Hungarian wax peppers. Hubby and I had to go out and stake them after the gusty winds we have had toppled them over. We have two small pumpkins that I hope get big enough for a pie before we get our first frost. My marigolds and zinnias are showing off their lovely flowers…and our grass we planted is making our yard green again. I am so thankful for the rain we have received. I am also so sad for the folks who were flooded and praying for them everyday. Take care everyone.
Our garden is almost gone too. I will check this evening to see if any little thing remains other than a few turnips. I did plant some late squash and zucchini and we are still getting a few. Strange to have them in October, but like you said it’s been a strange gardening season.
We continue to pray for those who were hit by the storm. Life is so precious and we never know what the day holds but we know Who holds the days! Where does our help come from, our Lord, Yahweh, the Maker of heaven and earth!