Yes - I have totally slacked off and let this blog (and my garden!) go to the weeds as they say. Since we got back from vacation everything has been crazy. The car died and we needed to get a new one and sell the old one, I started up grad school again, and other issues of real life have taken priority over the garden.

However I'm still getting goodies from the garden. I have been picking tomatoes regularly over the last month and will still probably get a few more before the season totally ends. Most of the new seedlings I planted didn't make it. The lettuce that I put in the planters kept getting dug up by cats or squirrels and the spinach and cabbage seedlings didn't fare well either with the several huge rains that we had a few weeks back.

Nevertheless I think it was a successful gardening year. I think I've killed off the gout-weed in part of the front yard. I still have another bed to do but that will be next year's project. I managed to clean out the scary shed in the back, but I didn't get to tearing it down. I got tons of veggies this year - and everyone loved my pickles. I already have pre-orders for next year!!!

If time allows I need to start cleaning out the veggie beds and put down some compost for the winter. My shallots are also just about ready to be harvested, and I have a few snow peas still producing pods. My peppers are also flowering again - but I doubt there is enough time left this year for those to do anything useful.

Before I know it I'll start getting my seed catalogs in the mail for next year. I know - it's too early to be even thinking about next year since I have so many unfinished tasks still to complete for this year, but one can dream. :)

I still have some pictures that I need to put up here. I didn't get many (if any?) for September - but I did way better this year than ever before. It will be difficult to beat next year, but I think I'm up for it.

Anyways - thanks for reading about my adventures this year. I probably won't be posting too much until early next year - probably only once or twice a month. See ya then!