I harvested spinach, green beans and radishes tonight.  My fall garden is amazingly bountiful this year.  I planted green beans a little bit late but I thought if I was lucky and there were no early frosts I could easily get some beans.  So far I have picked them twice and there is plenty more to come if the frost just stays away….We don't usually have a really hard freeze till around the end of the year but you never know.  It was a brutally hot summer and my tomatoes just fizzled out  but from experience, I knew if I could keep the plants in good shape, they would continue producing so tomatoes are loaded down.  I get a few most every day and before the first freeze I will pick them all as we did last year and we'll have fresh tomatoes till Feb….My greens, kale, collards, spinach, mustard, beets, mustard and chard are all beautiful and the peppers are still going from the spring plants.

I am your  typical little old lady so when we moved here, My husband had a worker build me garden beds and I have a stool for sitting to weed or harvest…It works really good for me….

So what did you do in your garden today?

Peppers are heat lovers and will do well until the first heavy frost or freeze and then they are done.  I have already picked mine and they are still flowering and producing more …It was such a brutal summer that they are actually doing better now than earlier…but Peppers won't survive the cold.

I harvested today. green onions to ripen on the porch, Florida speckled butter beans, chard, and the last of the green beans.  The chard and green beans are in the freezer already and all of the small tomatoes I used tp make  relish.  I have onions and garlic to plant and lots of greens to harvest for the freezer.  I won't harvest the collards till we get a few more frosts but the kale, spinach and chard is ready and waiting.  Oh and my sweet potatoes are beautiful.  I dug just a couple of forks last night and got a bucketful…beautiful nice and big.