Frost

Tonight we are expected to get some serious frost so the Grow Camp windows are down. I shoved all the spilling tomato plants inside (surely broke most of them, but we might still get more ripe tomatoes from them since they aren't going to get frost). Buttoned up and tucked in the plants the best I could. Threw an old sheet over the peppers and tomatoes on the porch. If they survive they survive. It is fall, and we've certainly eaten very well and healthy from all our plants in the garden this year. We've even canned some of the produce. Now it's a test to see how long into winter we can keep some of the plants going with the Grow Camp sealed up. Should be interesting...

Summer of Delicious

Even though the Grow Camp is over planted we've been eating loads of tomatoes, green beans, squash, peppers and now tomatillos from it. Everything tastes delicious!
Now we are getting into fall and need to decide how to trim everything back so we can drop the covers down.
Here is a picture post update before we start on that...

The porch tomatoes didn't do very well. The peppers did ok.

The one corn stalk had 3 ears of corn but all got attacked by worms, so we didn't get any of our own corn this year. We knew it was a long shot...

Tomatoes grew up, out and down. They are everywhere! 

It definitely turned into a small jungle in there, but the strongest plants sure prevailed. We get about 20 huge green beens, about 50 cherry tomatoes and 10 - 12 big tomatoes every week. Plus all the herbs and the super squash. Having good light and excellent - deep soil in the Grow Camp has really made a big difference in the taste of our harvest. Next we get to find out how long into winter we can keep things growing and see what still produces in the cold Michigan winter. Should be interesting, we will keep this updated. :)

Mystery Squash

We are not sure what to do with this...

Over Planted

We have way too much stuff in the Grow Camp, but first...

...my Cayenne's are doing great on the porch!

Jalapeños are doing good too. We have Serrano's in there too but I'm not sure what is what yet.

Tomatoes are doing good.

Hanging tomatoes still aren't "hanging".

We put the corn in a huge pot.

Herbs are doing good, we harvest and use them all the time now.

This is supposed to be tall - loose head lettuce, but it can't get enough sun so it's snaking around all over the place. There are 3 more of these in there that are doing better. We have plenty of lettuce.

This side is just packed, we now leave it open all the time.

We are not sure what these are now, they were supposed to be yellow squash, but these are ridiculously large for squash.

This thing is the size of a football!

A bunch of them are hanging outside the Grow Camp.

Strawberry's are creeping all over, trying to find sun.

Tomatoes are completely out of control. We have way too many in there!

Next year I think we will plant about half of what we planted this year, that or buy another Grow Camp!