I've been busily harvesting parsley, rainbow chard, tomatoes, beets, and cucumbers all summer. I had the hardest time getting the cilantro started but it is now looking good.
Where the garlic had been growing, I've just planted 6 plants each of Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and red cabbage. Along the edges of a few different beds I've planted about 30 yellow onions.
I have two unplanted beds at this point and one that will be ready for garlic pretty soon, when the cucumbers are worn out (and I'll just plant around the basil I guess). The hardest part, to me, about trying to have a year-round garden is the tearing up of plants that are past their prime but still producing something.
The two currently empty beds are around the far side of my yard, away from easy watering, although I hope to add some drip watering over there soon. For now, it means dragging a hose around the corner of the house from 30' feet away. I am thinking, though, that at least one of them would make a nice spot for perennial vegetables. I have asparagus growing elsewhere that is not in the best of spots and would like to start a new bed for that, plus rhubarb. And I'd like to try some Jerusalem artichoke as well. I want to add the artichokes into the flower border.
So that's the state of my garden.
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