I guess you can't knock down the small tomato types.

Okay, here are the peppers, eggplant and okra I picked today. Gave three grocery bags full to neighbors already. Picked two LARGE tub trugs full!

Wow!!! I love it!

So much color and so pretty and so much. I wish my peppers looked like that! What type are the red peppers out in front next to the okra?

Do you grow both sweet and hot peppers? And the okra! You could make grilled okra. Come to think of it you could make grilled okra and grilled peppers and grilled eggplant.

Veggies looking great at your house.

My neighbor came over and was walking around the veggie space with me while we cut cucumbers and tomatoes. It was nice to talk veggies with someone who is interested in growing veggies and how they grow, not just in getting some veggies. He does grow some tomatoes of his own but they must not be getting anything cause he sure is happy to get some of mine. And he is like me, he just eats them. I mean they use them in cooking as the wife is a fabulous cook but mostly he just eats them.

So he took home cukes and tomatoes. A nice harvest.

Your neighbors are so lucky to have you!!!!

The long red peppers are nardello, a sweet frying pepper. They are traditionally used for frying in Italy but they are SUPER eaten raw. My granddaughter eats them like candy!

The only hot peppers we have are jalapeños and they are late this year because they got a late start but they do have some little peppers on them.

I am lucky to have great neighbors and honestly, I can't use all the veggies I grow. I just like to grow them. It makes me feel good when I have veggies to give away. I guess in some sections or places veggies might be harder to give away as more people grow their own. Not around my neighborhood. Not much in the way of great gardening growing on, much less any veggie garden growing. And my friends are used to getting summer veggies from me. Although I do think I overdid the tomato planting this year. I mean 60 plants. Last year I had 50 plants and I was over run with tomatoes. More over run this year! Really I think I should go back to 50 plants next year. It should be enough.

Gosh I wish I could grow those peppers next year. They sound perfect. But I wonder if they sell that type in plants at the local nurseries? I am not going to try and start my own pepper seeds. Too much work. But I would love to be growing peppers like yours!

So I have to go look up Nardello peppers on the net as they sound so good. I found that Teritorial Seed sells plants!!!

http://www.territorialseed.com...

I will be getting these next spring!

Yes, that is where we got orur seeds, but they were free. That's why we tried them. Probably never would have otherwise.

I always start my plants from seed. I could send you a couple of plants next year!

Thank you! I might take you up on that!

Great! I start them in Jan. because they grow so slowly.

That is why I buy pepper plants. Because they are not quick starters from seed.

But I am plotting more space for veggies. I do garden redos in summer for next year so that in spring the space is ready. Otherwise I am trying to catch up all year and I don't like that.

In fact I already ordered those green coated metal fence posts for additional trellis space for next spring.

And I have one garden bed now that I have 6 tomato plants and four peppers in this year. Well, next year peppers will be planted up top. And I don't need the extra tomatoes as 60 plants too much, going back to 50 tomato plants. Instead planning on using that square bed as all for various melons. I have ordered lots of different melon seed already. I have it figured out. I can plant 8 types of melons there. Not lots of plants of each type but I don't need lots of each type. This way I can try all these melons that caught my attention when I was seed shopping.

It is a raised bed. Now I am trying to figgure out how to best raise soil temps there in the spring.

Making a salad to go with dinner. Basically cucumber and tomatoes. I found a small okra pod so cut that into the salad also and it has todays pole beans just cut in raw. I pick them small and tender and often eat them raw.

Beautiful assortment of veggies Arlene

Thanks! Beans are missing. Bean beetles just won't give me a break! We're going to work up an area here at our house and try to do some beans here and cover right away. We had a garden that we have just been planting clover the past two years to try and build the soil so it may work. I'm pulling out all the beans at the farm tomorrow.

I transplanted all my broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts and cabbage tonight. I went over today early but by the time I got the peppers picked it was just too hot.much cooler tonight. Each row will have about 77 plants with the majority of it being broccoli. Tomorrow I will plant my fall peas and root veggies. If we get and early cold snap we have hoops and plastic cover.

Arlene, you have everything under control. 77 plants per row sounds like a lot of plants to me.

So we are figuring they should be ready mid Oct. and we'll go back to market then, hopefully with root veggies, beans, lettuce, and all the stuff I planted today, plus sweet potatoes should be cured by then too.

Seems like you will have a lot of stuff ready in October.

Hopefully. Fingers crossed!

Mid Oct sounds like the height of your fall garden. Things around here are about done by then.

Well, I could get caught but we do use hoops and both cloth and plastic row covers to extend the season a bit.