I spent a happy morning in the garden. The kale in frame 1-2 was more than two feet tall. I took out the tallest and left a few of the smaller plants to grow a little more before frost. The twelve basil plants were harvested and several containers of pesto stored away in the freezer. I also harvested a lot of lettuce, kale, green beans and yellow pear tomatoes.
Of the 100 lettuce plants that were started at the beginning of September, only about 50 remain. I think that the biggest culprit is sluggo. Maybe it will be better to start these indoors after all and move out after they have their first true leaves. My experiment with setting out beer for the slugs did not seem to work earlier. Maybe I need a different beer container, or the thought just occurred to me, maybe I need to push the jar lids into the soil so that the slugs don't have to climb to get in.
While checking the garden at dusk recently, I came across a very large toad. I had to wonder whether he is the same one that I photographed earlier in the season. It looks like it was a good year to be a toad.
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