Well the garden is done for the year. Hailey and I went out last weekend and picked the rest of what was left. Not much out there except Hailey's cabbage and some jalapeno and green bell peppers.
Jalapeno & Green Bell Peppers
Hailey's cabbage
What was really exciting was Hailey's cabbage.
Hailey with her cabbage
Hailey got her cabbage as a little bitty plant from school in 3rd grade. They were giving out cabbage plants to the 3rd graders to promote taking care of something. She did super with her plant. She took very good care of it making sure she watered it everyday. For awhile we thought it was going to die. Some type of bug kept eating holes in it. It stayed alive and after a couple of months it was finally big and strong enough to move out into the garden. Hailey still continued to check on it to make sure it was growing.
Our first hard frost was coming so Hailey and I went out into the garden and finally picked it. She was super excited at how big it got. She was really proud and said that she thinks she should grow cabbage again for our garden next year.
She took off the outside leaves and fed them to the goats for a treat. We have the cabbage in the fridge and Hailey wants to eat it with cornbeef.
I am already thinking about next years garden. For the past two years we have bought tomato and pepper plants. I'm hoping to have enough time to start those plants from seeds for our garden next year. We also should have enough compost for the whole garden come spring. Hopefully we won't have such a drought next year and the garden will do better.
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