Weekly Gardening Outlook

This will be a continuing series where we look ahead at the coming week in gardening for the Northwest Arkansas area.

Jalapeño and Serrano peppers with a solitary tomato.

Harvested celeriac root ready for blanching and freezing

Maturing green beans

It's officially been fall for almost 2 weeks now. A light frost the last three mornings reminds us that a killing frost (28 degrees) is soon to come.  We harvested all remaining peppers, tomatoes, and celeriac.  The green beans are going to remain on the on the vine to mature into next year's seeds.

Rocky Top lettuce mix (week 4)

Rocky Top lettuce mix (week 4)

Pink Beauty radishes (week 4)

Scotch kale

The lettuce and radishes are lush and beautiful.  Visions of fresh cut salads are dancing in our heads.  It appears the kale revival experiment is not going to be productive.  As seen above, they aren't leafing out as we had hoped and what leaves they have produced are unpalatable.

Weather outlook:

-Beautiful fall weather.  Cold at night; warm and sunny during the day getting up to the low 80's.  Dry with no chance of rain.
-Ten day forecast

What's being harvested:

-Peppers

-Tomatoes (They are loaded with small, green fruit that are destined to be turned to mush by freezing temperatures)

-Chard
-Celeriac root

-Basil, mint, and other herbs (enjoying them while they last)