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Oct 2, 2007 | 10:00 PM PST
Tags: tomatoes , zucchini , beets , peppers

Well, It's been a week since my last blog. I have been one busy bee, I managed to can my beets, bake a couple batches of zucchini bread, make my salsa, empty the compost pile, keep up with the vegetables and run all my errands that had to be done. Whew! And dinner with the in-laws was very nice. I sent home some zucchini with them, and they brought me some fresh apples.

It has been rainy the last couple of days, so I haven't been able to spend as much time in the garden as I would have liked lately. But all that rain seems to have extended the life of my tomato plants - can you believe they are putting out still more blossoms?!? The rain seems to have revived some of my green bean plants, too. I still have quite a few hot peppers and the zucchini shows no signs of giving up any time soon.

I am getting anxious to get the winter squash. It is such a long wait for those to ripen, and it looks like I will have enough to last me until next year. I also can't hardly wait to dig the sweet potatoes, but the vines are still growing like crazy. You can't tell with those how much you'll get until you dig them. The suspense is driving me up a wall!

We are supposed to have nice, warm weather this coming weekend, so I hope to spend a lot of time out there.

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shiukopuppy	Oct 4, 2007 \| 3:37 PM PST Vegetable swap sounds fun.. I don't know anyone who has a kitchen garden here! What winter vegetables will you put in?
Twiggybet1	Oct 6, 2007 \| 9:59 PM PST We can't plant anything else outside until our spring, April at the earliest when the snow will pretty much be melted here. Right now, the leaves are turning colors and dropping. Usually, this time of year I am pulling up the spent plants and mulching before the snow comes, but we are having unseasonally warm weather right now, so I'm holding off yanking some of the stuff that seems to want to go on for a while yet. If only I had a green house, then maybe I could grow a few things out of season!
shiukopuppy	Oct 16, 2007 \| 2:56 AM PST I got a walk in greenhouse for $145 at the hardware store. It's soft plastic over a frame, but has shelves and is really helping all of the plants in the cold. There are cheaper ones for seedlings etc too. Maybe there are some near you?

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