A look at the garden for mid September

It's been a while since I've written a garden related post, so I figured that now was as good a time as any. We're at the middle of September now, the 13th today, so garden season in Upper Michigan is almost done now. I don't know when the first frost will be this year, but it will probably happen at some point in the next couple of weeks. I don't have much to worry about with the frost this year except maybe a few straggler tomatoes, and I'm not too worried about them.

One thing that I have found really interesting this year is that my rhubarb is still alive and well. It usually dies back in August, sometimes even the later part of July, but it's still doing quite well this year.

The blueberry bushes are in fall mode now. This is their second year here, I planted them last spring. They seem to have done pretty well this year, especially since the rabbits damaged them last fall before I put the chicken wire around them. They seem to like the raised bed with the pine bark mulch.

The popcorn is continuing to do well, but it's still not ready to be picked. The kernels haven't started getting dry on the cobs yet. There's a couple of really tall sunflower plants in the corn patch.

You can see some of the nice cobs in this picture.

The potatoes are all ready to be dug now. The weather has been rainy so I haven't done any more digging lately. It's no fun digging potatoes in the mud. I've been working a bit at trying to clear some of the weeds from this area, they got away from me this year. This is a lot better than it was.

My tomato plants in the raised bed are a mess this year. These are heirloom plants, and they're not very disease resistant. They get blight every year that I plant them, but they also give me some big tomatoes. The tomatoes are ugly, but big. I have Black Krimm plants on the close end in the picture, and Brandywine plants in the middle. On the far end of the raised bed are several San Marzano paste tomato plants, those are doing well, although they also have some blight.

I picked a bunch of the ripe and almost ripe tomatoes today. Some have splits in them, and a few were half rotten, but I still got enough to work with for another batch of canning.

We're supposed to get dry weather all week next week, so I hope to get a lot of the potatoes dug and put into my storage refrigerator. I also have to finish digging the red potatoes at the community garden. The soil up there is more sandy, so I won't have to wait as long for it to get dry enough to dig.

That's all I have for this post, thanks for stopping by to check it out, eh!