Green Thumb Up My Nose

Garden Report for 231023

No report for last week because there was nothing to report. Cool and rainy, followed by warm, with a high of 72. Forecast for cooler, with rain. And frost. And maybe snow.

I left most of the tomatoes on the vine this week to get as much color as possible. First frost is forecast for Tuesday, so I’ll do a big harvest today. Meanwhile, the pumpkins and the winter tromboncino looked to be as good as they’re gonna get so I harvested almost all of them. There was one really big winter tromboncino, 1.8kg, and a handful of medium summer varieties. (The summer/winter split, of course, just depends on how long you leave them on the vine).

Tromboncino

Pumpkin and Spaghetti

Week Ending 10/23	Vegetable (bold = final)	Count	Total Weight g	Unit Weight g	Grand Total	Total Weight kg
	Tomato	9	1007	112	250	21.8
	Butternut	1	1000	1000	1	1.0
	Potato				52	4.83
	Cabbage				2	0.45
	Tromboncino	6	4104	684	37	13.5
	Cocozelle	1	438	438	40	11.14
	Acorn				3	1.29
	Pattypan				7	3.87
	Zucchini				11	2.93
	Carrots				–	0.57
	Pumpkin	5	5003	1000	6	6.22
	Spaghetti	2	1602	801	3	2.78
	Beets				–	0.25
	Beans				–	0.81
Grand Total						71.44

Back in 2019 we closed out the garden on 28 September, just ahead of a killer frost and a touch of snow. So the 67kg cumulative total for that week was also the total for the year, and included  a couple of kilos of green tomatoes. We are now 4kg ahead of that, and I have not even started on the tomatoes.

Tags: Fall 2023, gardening, pumpkin, Raised bed garden, Scoreboard, spaghetti squash, Tromboncino