Our gardens are definitely on their way out. We’ve pulled up a few things and Matt’s itching to pull up the rest of it and be done with this year’s garden.

Although the harvesting has slowed we are still eating from the garden.

Our tomatoes are still coming in and the cucumbers although scraggily are still producing here and there. Peas and peppers are still producing. The Malabar spinach will continue to grow until the first hard frost. And we have arsh potatoes aplenty. I hope there are sweet taters under all the vines but we haven’t checked yet.

For the last few years we’ve started Juliet tomatoes but had no success actually growing them. Last week I was surprised to see a volunteer Juliet tomato growing just outside of the new blackberry bed we made this year. I knew the plant was there but didn’t realize what kind of tomato it was till I seen the red globes of goodness shining through the green.

We still haven’t planted anything for fall. Time is about to get away from us.

Matt said we could till the area where we had peas growing and plant a few fall things there. Hopefully we can get that done this week.

Here’s the best planting days for September 2026.

Taurus: good for all root crops and above ground crops 1, 2, 28, 29.
Cancer: best for planting above ground and root crops 5, 6.
Scorpio: best for flowers and above ground crops 14, 15.
Pisces: good for planting and transplanting above ground crops, trees and shrubbery 23, 24, 25.

Tipper

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