Even though the weather is still warm here in Texas, the calendar says it’s October, so it is time to get the fall garden started.
I pulled out the second green bean bed in mid-September when the plants were losing more leaves than they were putting on. I lightly racked the larger roots up and then added an organic fertilizer, green sand and top it off with mushroom compost. I made sure I kept the bed moist while I waited for the Cole crop transplants to arrive at the nurseries.
At the end of September, I planted broccoli, cauliflower, and two different peas (sugar and snow). For the heck of it I also put down the last couple of zucchini seeds I had left over from the spring.

With lower air temperatures (now below 95 degrees) and a few days of rain, everything is doing nicely. Surprisingly the pepper plants survived a wicked hurricane-like storm that blew in with 70+ mph winds and heavy rains. I thought for sure they would have been snapped in half like one did in an earlier storm, but I guess the wind block is still doing its job.

The cherry tomatoes are still alive and draping over their cages. I keep cutting them back little by little in order to get them to sprout new growth closer to the ground. The Yellow Pear is responding to this trick, but the Cherry 100 rather put blooms on the long gangly branches.
Here in northern Texas, October is also the month to plant Beets, Collards, Garlic and Lettuce. I would try the beets and get the lettuce going if I could find room in the garden. Perhaps I should use space in the Herb Garden and hope the bunnies don’t think it is all for them.