So it’s almost Halloween and most everyone’s garden is winding down at this point but if you planned your garden well, it’s spooky (sorry, I couldn’t help myself) how you can still be eating well from your garden even now.

And I intend to be harvesting from my garden into December. I still have greens and beets growing and my fall broccoli is just starting to form its heads. If I can stretch it out to December 22, I’ll have been harvesting  veggies for 8 months (so what if it was less than a pound in April, a harvest is a harvest).

This year has been especially good for an extended harvest because last winter had relatively mild temperatures which meant my carrots and kale from 2009 survived the winter and constituted my initial harvest. Also, the snow melted and ground thawed early so I had my first seeds in the ground in mid-March. At this end of the season, I still haven’t had a frost yet so my tomatoes and peppers are still producing. Even in a more normal year I’d still be harvesting the greens and other veggies I mentioned above.

So just because you live here in the Northeast (or somewhere else with a supposedly short growing season) don’t limit your thinking to just a summertime harvest.