September In The Garden

September is upon us, but our growing season isn't over yet. Tomatoes are coming in plentifully and our sunflowers are in full bloom. 

If you been following our garden updates (May, June, August) you've seen it each month and all the new things going in. We're getting ready to start our fall crops to take the place of some of our summer plants that have died back. 

We added a third arbor to this end of our garden for our Minnesota Midget melon plants, you can see the cantelope on the other end are still going strong and our mammoth sunflowers are blooming. I love coming down in the morning and seeing them with the sunlight coming through the petals. These arbors also work wonderfully for them! Tutorial coming soon.

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This view has changed so much over the last months, but I never get tired of it...

Our squash has died out so we are rotating to lettuce for the cooler months to come, the pepper plants have gotten so big we are using our old tomato cages to support them.

We harvested our potato crop last week, they are always one of my favorite things to plant and harvest. I love digging through the dirt.

Our tomato plants have gotten bigger than our 4-foot trellises, so big that they now touch the ground again. Next year we will probably have to work on our design a little bit, but they have held up way better than anything else we've tried so I am happy. You can see what they look like when they aren't buried in tomato HERE.

I love the happy yellows against the crisp white! I'm half tempted to paint my raised beds too, shhh! Don't tell Mr. Cottage.

Our green beans are beginning to die back, but we are still getting a few green beans.

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We also planted some adorable short sunflowers! I love the pops of color throughout the garden.