Poor, neglected garden

I visited the garden this morning for the first time in a couple of weeks. I am a bad, bad garden momma. We went on vacation for a week, and I was out to pick the unripe tomatoes and whatever else I could find before the risk of heavy frost. My parents were treated to a bounty of green tomatoes.

We've apparently had a light frost in that time, but nothing too terrible, because most of the plants were alive and kicking. The drought had killed off the cucumber plant, and the peas are in bad shape - I moved the latter to our porch in the hope that it'll discourage the squirrels from pulling out the plants. But I saw ripe grape tomatoes, and peppers, and a number of green cherry and grape tomatoes. The garden greens are doing pretty well. The leeks are about as good as they're likely to get, so I'll probably harvest those this weekend. The eggplant is truly mighty, and is still a green giant out there. Not that it's produced anything to show for all the resources it's gotten.

I never got in the second round of carrots, and I didn't bother ordering saffron crocuses. I did get my composter, so one of this weekend's projects will be to start filling that bad boy up. The winter will be about compost, winter greens on the patio, and dreaming and planning for next spring.