Broccoli is Coming and Last Big Harvest of Beans

This is going to be a short post because there is not much that has happened between today and the last post I wrote.  For now many plants are done producing and gardening is coming to a close for the year.

Right now I have finished the last zucchini of the season yesterday and today I picked the last big harvest of beans.  Three containers were filled with large pole beans and there were not many left on the vines.

There are still some plants that refuse to quite and are continuing to produce even though the weather is getting cooler and with much less sun than during the summer.  I don’t think they will produce the same amount that I picked today for the rest of the season, but I am sure that I will get a few more small harvests.

I also did pick the last zucchini of the year yesterday and it was not as big as the others that were picked during mid-summer.  Usually towards the end they are not as big no matter how hard you try.  You just can’t control the weather.

On the other hand there is good news because cooler weather means my broccoli should be coming real soon.  I took a look at some of the more mature and bigger plants and saw that they are beginning to grow broccoli.

Right now they are still small, but they do grow fast and within a week or two I should be seeing more broccoli growing from my other plants as well as a possible first harvest.  Since they are starting to get broccoli I thought it would be wise to supply them with some manure tea.  This should give them some nutrients that they need to get healthy broccoli vegetables.