Southwest Gardening November Update

This year we’ve been lucky with not getting a freeze until the week of Thanksgiving. The only plants alive from this years planting are the herbs. I did manage to take some pictures before the freeze.

The plants that paid off the most this year were the herbs.

Garlic Chives
Garlic Chives
Rosemary
Rosemary

Note: The sage is still alive, just forgot to take a picture.

The vegetable and flowers really loved the cooler weather of September and October.

Next year I think I’ll try moving the bell pepper to a sunnier location.

Small Bell Pepper
Small Bell Pepper

I planted this Big Horn pepper plant later, in May i believe, than some of the others. It ended up producing an alright amount of peppers.

Big Horn Pepper
Big Horn Pepper

When the heirloom tomatoes produced fruit it took a while for it to fully ripen. I think next year I’ll try some other variety.

Heirloom Tomato
Heirloom Tomato
Heirloom Tomato Flesh Pattern
Heirloom Tomato Flesh Pattern

The following two tomato plants really took over the 4 x 4 raised bed. It was a really good combination to plant the cosmos in the same bed. The bees would be attracted by the cosmos and then hit the tomato plants too.

Tomato and Cosmos
Tomato and Cosmos

The Super 100 Tomato plant was the best producer out of all of them. This is on my list for next year for sure. The plant had some good growth considering it was in a 4 gallon container.

Super 100 Cherry Tomato
Super 100 Cherry Tomato

This Japanese Eggplant was a seedling I got from Star Nursery in August. During that time it managed to produce a couple of Eggplant.

Japanese Eggplant
Japanese Eggplant

Everything is dead from the Thanksgiving weather so now I just need to figure out how I’m going to shred all the plants to put into the compost barrel.

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