We've had two frosts so far this autumn. The first about 2 weeks ago, didn't do any damage to the vegetable gardens. The second frost, which was last week did kill some plants but not all. The affected plants were all summer squashes, bean plants , cucumber plants and some tomato plants. Most flowers are still fine as well as greens, beets, some beans, a couple winter squash/pumpkin plants, some tomatoes, peppers and the few potato plants still in the ground. One surprising survivor is another peach tree which is looking set to bear ripe fruit soon! I really did not think this tree would give us anything because it still had tiny green peaches a couple weeks ago. I pulled some off to see if that would help and the remainder are looking to be nearly ripe now. What a treat that will be to have fresh peaches when it's very nearly winter for us. I brought 6 in the house to ripen but taking a chance to leave the majority on the tree and reassess day by day. As for our GIANT pumpkin plant, it topped out at about 50 feet long! It grew us 5 nice pumpkins which now decorate the front walk area. A few more pumpkins are coming along on another plant.
Some plants succumbed to our first freezes.
While others are still growing strong
KitKat is always a great help and entertainment when working the gardens.
And some surprise very late peaches are nearly ripe! This is our Reliance peach tree and this is its first year bearing fruit.
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