Fall Garden Update

My garden is doing really well despite the blast of cold weather in the past week. We had really nice mild fall weather for about 3 weeks straight then this week it's back to cold and frost. I have not covered my garden yet and it's still doing well. The frost hit really hard last night and I thought it was a goner but the plants managed to bounce back. I'm still trying to figure out the best design for my 8'x8' garden. I have the plastic but need to build the frame. Here's a picture of the garden on one of those nice fall days.

The mustard greens are so yummy. We usually eat it with a Lao chicken salad dish. Very nice minty and peppery taste. It seems like the plants that I started from seed are coming up way faster than during the spring. Hopefully, everything will be well established before the hard freezes hits in December. You can see the radishes on the top part of the second picture.

Fall Clean Up and Garden

I got some free plants from a local discount store and decided to go ahead with the fall garden. First, I had to do some major clean up. I cleaned out the dead sunflower plants, tomatoes, gourds, and marigolds. There were still tons of cherry tomatoes left unfortunately, most of them had already fallen onto the ground. I'll probably have a million tomatoe seedlings come up next Spring.

At first, I planted mustard greens, collard greens, green peppers, cabbage, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts. The green peppers died when frost came so I moved it and planted some other things from seed. I planted radishes, carrots, lettuce, and cilantro. I checked on the it today and the radishes have already come up. Hopefully, the other plants will follow through. I moved the herbs from the 8'x8' to the flower garden after I removed the sunflowers. The plants are doing well even though I have not protected them from the frost. Building a frost protector will be the next project.