Fall Garden

My spring garden began to wither away in late July and early August.  Many of the tomatoes just quit producing and started to burn up.  So I trimmed them back quite a bit and they started to grow again in late August and early September.  Thus began the Fall Garden!

Just for fun, we also planted some chrysanthemums.  And since this is about Bucket Gardening... What better way to plant fall flowers than in trick-or-treat buckets. At $1.00 per bucket, it's hard to go wrong!  What a fun floral display!

Above: To the back yard for the edible garden.  I planted a Sugar Baby watermelon mid September.  We're  not really sure if it will have time to produce completely, but I thought I'd give it a try.  It's doing very well in the bucket, so I'll definitely try this again in the spring!  Oh, and maybe add a couple of cantaloupes as well.  Also pictured, Better Boy tomato (bought on summer clearance) and the Patio Tomato, trimmed way back.

 Above:  Far left is a squash, middle is my Lemon Boy.  It has so many tomatoes on it right now that I'm just AMAZED!  I can't wait for them to start turning!  They're all green right now.  The right most bucket is a stray tomato from the kitchen.  It was a sweet surprise when it started producing small grape tomatoes.  Wonderful flavor!  Also in a bucket with an Anaheim Pepper.

Above:  Sweet 100 Tomatos.  This duo of orange buckets are just vines galore!  I had to craft some ropes to hang the vines and keep them off of the ground.  Also in yellow is a lingering squash from spring.  Doing well. :)

 My daughter, Alexandra, is showing you that the watermelon is producing!  YEAH!  Keep growing...

I also picked up on summer clearance a couple of sweet peppers.  Showing here is a beautiful purple sweet pepper.  The flavor is strong, though I think the first one I picked was a bit green as well. These are #2 and 3.  I'm letting them stay on the vine just a little longer to sweeten up. 

Happy Gardening!