Due to the drop in overnight temps, please do not water at night. Return to watering early morning as to avoid fungus issues...

This is a good time of the year to make chow-chow with your green tomatoes. Mine are all gone.

I planted mustards, turnips, carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower in my fall garden. The mustards and turnips are a good good way to keep the weeds under control.

Cilantro is comming up all around the edges.

I've never had a successful fall garden.

Did you plant all that from seeds?

I have started my broccoli and cauliflower from seed, but bought the plants this year.

went out to water some container plants today and ran into 12 of these on 2 plants. Where yesterday there was nothing.

Those things take after wommin...They are the debil!!!!!

OK I have a whole bunch of really tall tomato plants with blooms all over them...and not a freakin tomato...truly, I left these tomato's in their little pots they came in way longer than I should have when i bought them , but I was getting tomato's...I grow everything else...but cant get diddly outta them. So my question is , do I chop them down and forget them, or do something else? and what would that be exactly? Can you sense my exasperation...I toasted my waterbill all summer to water correctly, and now I got nothing but questions ..and I have never had a problem growing them before...just don't get it....

Did you spank them? Probably time to chop, others might have a better idea.

I would definitely spank them everyday...To spank them just means giving them a good, vigorous shake...You should be able to harvest some good green tomatoes before the first freeze...We're a little farther south so we generally can keep them a bit longer...If you don't have anything on them by the end of this month, it's going to be a lost cause...

OK going to try the spanking, just have tons o bees and thought it was being taken care of, but no tomato's would sure mean ya'll are right and I shouldn't assume ...ha ha....well I am going to try this and I will let you kow how it goes...Thanks for helping

Killed a 4 inch long cut worm Sunday...Be sure to watch for those nasty little critters...

Also, for those of you who have added fish guts to the soil, have any added it before planting? I was considering adding it late this fall after the first freeze. I was wondering if adding the fish guts and letting them break down for a few months would be beneficial...

Cucumber plants are full of blooms and small (1") cukes. Saw a bunch of little black dots on the leaves and the small cukes yesterday, assumed they were aphids. Got out the insecticidal soap (really just Dawn liquid and water) and gave them a good soaking, especially the back side of the leaves. My yellow bell pepper plant is loaded (only 1 plant made it thru summer). Counted 11 peppers on it yesterday. That is the tallest pepper plant I have ever seen. it is almost 5 ft tall. Not sure about the tomatoes yet. My 2 summer plants came back and full green growth but only 2 blooms. My other tomatoe plant I put in back in August is growing nicely but only a couple of blooms there too. I shook them good so we will see if they set.