ok. I dropped the ball, so to speak. An entire season comes and goes and almost nothing on this blog...and the season was over on the 4th of July....I can plead 'too busy' and that would be correct, but still, people like to know whats up with the garden, so really that's no excuse. Now it is late October. Will has manhandled the garden and managed to put in fall veggies - some will make it to the first frost and some will not, but its the effort that counts....as always.

The green and yellow beans are blooming, but not setting quickly. It's been hot-cold hot-cold so maybe they are confused. We hope to have beans. That, and the loofas (no chance but hey...)and the cucumbers (making a mighty good try and we've had a few) and the tomatoes (in the greenhouse so maybe we'll get some) are our effort to steal a little summer.
The fall vegetables, on the other, hand, should be fine. Here are our round bales - not what we wanted, but they'll have to do, because nobody makes square bales anymore(!)

..the rest of them are in the barn, but Will has been rolling some of them out...and they make a very fine mat for protection...

and all along the front of this herb bed, teeny-tiny cauliflowers and broccoli. We never really worry about what on earth we'll do with this much broccoli and cauliflower.

The herb beds, along with all of the rest of the 2013 garden, were hard to handle and never produced the way we wished they would. But fall came, and little volunteers began to poke their heads up and the herb beds turned into this fabulous array of craziness - very healthy craziness. We're enjoying it while we can -if we were home every day and had all the time in the world, there would be pesto and basil drying and all sorts of things...hope the frost holds off for a while longer...

In the meantime, would somebody please come over and help us get all the extra-giant catfish out of the pond?