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Wordless Wednesday: Fall Garden Time

It’s fall garden time…or is it? False Fall #1 is about to end in Los Angeles – another week of hot weather is coming soon. That means: hold off on planting cool season crops, except for seeds you plan to water every day.

In other parts of the country it is already cool. Still others are dealing with flooding, hurricanes and tornadoes. Hold on tight, everyone. Normal keeps changing and we aim to adapt along with it. Here’s some inspiration for the transition to fall.

Squash Bonanza

Sweet Meat green/gray-skinned pumpkins and spaghetti squash are curing for storage.
This butternut squash decided to climb a trellis. We’re waiting for the vine to turn brown before harvesting.
A pale Long Island Cheese pumpkin is ripening in the bed.

Fruiting Delights

Pomegranates are starting to turn color.
Fuji apples protected by coddling moth covers. They keep the rats at bay for a while too.
Strawberries did really well this year in our Greenstalk Vertical garden.
Side note: earlier in September a group of us bread bakers repaired the exterior adobe of the Westchester Community Oven in Westchester, CA. Two weeks later we had a bake to break it in. Tasting the fruits of our labor, so to speak.

Future Planning

Yard long beans (planted late) are climbing the trellis. With hot weather coming we hope they start flowering soon.
Swallowtail caterpillars love the dill plants. We leave them to become butterflies down the road.
Christy hard at work planning the Gardenerd HQ test gardens on paper. It’s a fun process you can learn too! Check out Plan Your Abundant Edible Garden to learn how. Registration is open now through Oct. 4th. Then gone until 2025.

Enjoy this fall garden time whether you are planting now or just in the planning stages. Keep an eye on temperatures and start planting once you see a 10-day forecast of temps under 73 degrees F. Be aware that here in Los Angeles we get 3 false falls before real fall sets in. So resist the urge to plant out tender greens before a heat wave.

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