I haven’t had much of a food garden this year for various reasons including extended periods of extreme heat, drought and the dismal failure of the monsoon season to deliver significant moisture - maybe because of Sods law: I spent considerable amounts of money fixing the roof leaks. Then too there was that leave of absence I took to do a little mid summer 5000 mile mostly secondary roads roadtrip to the west coast and back.
There was, however, still a small harvest to gather in this week when the first freeze warning came: zinnias, Thai basil, Tulsi aka Holy Basil (not pictured because it’s hanging in bundles to dry for tea), a handful of greenish tomatoes, a couple of eggplant and a nice handful of serrano peppers to pickle.
I also dug three good sized potatoes ahead of the frost. A couple of plants reappeared late summer. The harvested tubers look very much like Yukon Gold. I should have paid attention and planted a whole plot of autumn potatoes, but it was just too hot and buggy outside. Besides I had print markets to work for.
Garlic beds are being prepared this week. Late October, early November is really the most beautiful time to be working on outdoor projects here in the northern Chihauhauan desert. We can usually rely on cold nights and sunny, warm, windless, bug free days in the mid sixties, low seventies. (Around 15-22 C).
Much though I want to, I can’t spend all my time outside, though. I have three holiday markets in the next month to print cloth for.
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