Fun Day Friday and a Photo too...

Friday is always a little more relaxed around the office with several personnel off this fine day!

I've noticed that as things start slowing down in the garden, there isn't a whole lot to take care of - except for the cherry tomatoes which are producing like crazy!

However, that will change soon enough when my seedlings are big enough to be transplanted into the garden. Of course, we'll need to prepare a space for these little guys and also provide some frost protection for the cooler months.

So, on with the photo "show"

Since I plan to continue working the hoop house through the fall  months, I needed some sort of lighting system to do so. One morning Tom went and got an old string of of white christmas lights (C7 bulb size) and thought that it would do the trick. Boy does it ever! I'm pretty excited - even if it is raining or whatever, I will be able to continue "playing" in the hoop house and tending to what ever I have going in the trays.

The seedlings are doing great! one of my trays needs to be revamped, but the seedlings are fine. I am going to take the purple broccoli and the asian greens and transplant them into the square plastic pots that I have been saving for this very occasion. I have to keep telling myself that this is an experiment and to not get all disappointed if and when things don't work out. So far everything has sprouted, some more than others.

This is my attempt at succession planting for the fall crops. Most of these are repeats of what I have in the first two trays.

This is just ONE of the roma tomato plants that is growing in the hoop house. To think that I thought that there would be no tomatoes. Man, I'm going to be busy making sauce and such to put in the freezer!

These are nice slicing tomatoes of which we only have two in the hoop house. These guys are ripening fast! Much quicker than the romas. It seems like they only JUST started to turn pink and now less than a week later they are red! Hoping these have good flavor! We haven't been disappointed with any of the romas yet.

All in all, the summer gardening season has been fairly successful except for a couple of things. I am looking forward to getting the fall crops into the ground and hopefully harvesting fresh greens before we know it!

Everything is a learning experience and I am having fun with experimenting and taking notes for the next season!

Get out and try planting some fall crops there are so many things that will work well!