Hey hey, Holly Capelle here! Today I'm going to harvest in my October garden in the beautiful
pacific northwest sunshine. I've got a mix of that end-of-summer veg I need to get because the nights
are starting to get a little chilly, and I've got some of that fall stuff happening right now as
well. I've also recently planted some of my fall starts and I'd love to show you what's happening.
So, let's go check it out. But first, be sure to hit that subscribe button and notification bell
so you don't miss any cool upcoming videos from Kellogg Garden. Let me show you what
we have going on here in our beautiful kitchen garden in the middle of October. As you can see,
it's far from dead. It's bursting with color and life thanks to the mums, the marigolds,
the calendula, and zinnias; plenty of flowers are still in bloom. We also have
the red cabbage, it just adds such a pop in the garden. It's one of my favorite plants to grow
just for that reason. The blueberries also as you can see are starting to autumn off
with that amazing red color. I love this time of year down here.
Graham, are you smelling the calendula? Leave it for me pal.
As you can see, it's a cool-loving flower and it's happiest in the spring and fall.
We've got fall peas planted in a few different places to climb up our trellises this fall.
Fall peas are always an iffy thing in the pacific northwest because we play the powdery mildew game.
So, it really just depends on the weather, but we always toss the seeds in and see what happens.
Here is our beautiful 10 plus-year-old green globe artichoke. It gets massive. It's the
first thing to pop up in the spring and it's the last thing to go to sleep in the winter.
As you can see, once it's done fruiting we take the flowers off any artichokes we didn't eat,
we let flower and then I remove those for the seeds. We trim the plant
way back, so you can see here some of the stalks in the original plant,
and then it just takes off. What was one plant is now, as you can see, several,
and it just happily lives in its own box here where it just provides year after year.
I do not cover it in the winter, I just let it do its thing. This box is showing signs of fall for
sure. Arugula mixed with leaves falling from the trees. Also, some peas shooting out back there.
So beautiful when the seasons change. This box is home to swiss chard,
blueberry tomatoes still coming, carrots, alyssum, zinnias, snapdragon, parsley, and beautiful mums.
Another busy box. You've heard of scarlet runner beans, these are sunset runner beans
and I'm going to harvest them today. Normally, you'd want to let them dry right out on the vine
and wait until the pod itself is brown. But, as you can see, with the rain and the
humidity here we're starting to battle some mold, and so I'm going to go ahead and pull mine today,
and then I'm going to take the beans out of the pod and I'm going to let them dry out on
my screens that I use for my herbs and flowers until they're fully dry. They're going to be
spectacular, I cannot wait to open them up. This cherry tomato plant, it's actually a yellow pear,
has taught us quite a bit. It's planted over here in this corner but as you can see
it's completely taken over our barbecue. Not only that, but the fruit on the vine is double in size
what any of our other yellow pear tomatoes are. I mean this thing is huge, and we've come to
the conclusion that it is because of the potable ash that comes from the bottom of the barbecue.
Very interesting. Definitely going to be experimenting with that next season. Lots
of jalapenos to pick today in the middle of October, which is super fun. These are
supposed to be orange and as you can see a couple of them are, but I'm going to go
ahead and pick them now and let them just ripen as they hang dry. Looks like we've got plenty
of cayennes to harvest today as well. I'm going to take both the red ones and the green ones.
This trellis is full of cranberry beans. Cranberry beans are another dry bean. They are white with
red speckles or red with white speckles, and you ideally want to harvest them when the pods
turn brown. They just dry naturally out here. If you pick them too soon the beans will not have
their speckles yet. So, this one you do kind of have to wait out a little bit longer for.
Looks like some of these black nebula carrots
are ready to harvest!
Awesome. Really beautiful purple on the inside. Oh, that one broke so you can see, really pretty.
This is our upper garden area. This is where we grow most of our nightshade plants.
Actually peppers and tomatoes. This is the pepper garden, it was amazing this year. Week after
week we got platters full of peppers. Still coming are these beautiful Chinese five color
peppers. They are super spicy, so my boys have been enjoying these,
and they're still growing in October. I'm going to harvest everything you see
today and that'll be it. We've harvested most of the front yard stuff already. There are a few
mini pumpkins here, and some watermelon here left to get. Another moon and stars watermelon,
so beautiful I'll grab him today as well. There's another one. This is my best watermelon
season yet, I think we got eight or nine of them, which is eight or nine more than I usually get.
So, really good, and these were our eggplants, they were amazing this year as well. All of this,
if you recall, was all pumpkins. I've since harvested them and we've got them all
on our porch for decor. There's our harvest so far I'm playing with for an Instagram picture.
Here's more of our pumpkins. I also have this big cabbage to get today.
It looks like the bugs are getting at it so I'm going to grab it, and some pumpkin on a stick.
Which we're really fun to grow. These ornamental eggplants, they are edible but they don't taste
great. They are for really dried arrangements. I'm going to pick them, take the leaves off,
and then hang them upside down to dry and I'll use them in arrangements,
but yeah it was really a good successful season growing up here. Tons of pumpkins,
lots of eggplant, rhubarb, cabbage, zucchini, and most of our front yard, as you can see here, is a
hardscape so again you would really be surprised how much you can grow in a very small space.
Here it is all put together pretty, not so bad for an October harvest. So many great things. The
green tomatoes, some are a green variety but most of them will need to be ripened in my windowsill.
The last of our pumpkins we got. The last of the watermelon, the burst of the cabbage and carrots,
dried beans, last of our peppers. Herbs always all the time,
and lots of flowers. The red mums there, those are edible. I've already dried a bunch for tea
and so now I'm going to use some fresh in infused culinary salt and see what color I can get it,
and I'm also going to use some in bath salts, it'll be pretty.
What an amazing bounty for the middle of fall.
I just love my little city garden. Thanks so much for joining me today. You can find me over
at Instagram @bigfamilyliving where I share my everyday happenings. Until then, happy gardening!