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🧺 Kale/collard harvest begins (Bed B) — outer leaves
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🧺 Fall salad greens harvest begins (Bed A)
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🧤 Top tomato plants + pull new flowers so remaining fruit ripens before frost
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🧺 Frost watch begins: harvest green tomatoes/peppers before the first freeze
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🌿 Plant garlic in Bed B north end (8 sq ft, ~36 cloves)🧺 Fall snap-pea harvest begins (Pallet 2)
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🧺 Fall carrot harvest begins (Bed B) — leave them in the ground, mulch, pull all winter
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🧺 Fall broccoli harvest (Bed B)🔄 Pull pole beans after first frost; leave roots, compost vines🔄 Pull tomatoes & peppers after frost; DON'T compost diseased vines
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📝 plan · 🛒 buy · 🧱 prep · 🌱 start indoors · 🌿 plant · 🧤 care · 🧺 harvest · 🔄 reset
Weekend work sessions this month (these are the calendar invites)
Sat Oct 10 9–11 AM — 1 task: 🧺 Kale/collard harvest begins (Bed B) — outer leaves
Sat Oct 17 9–11 AM — 3 tasks: 🧺 Fall salad greens harvest begins (Bed A); 🧤 Top tomato plants + pull new flowers so remaining fruit ripens before frost; 🧺 Frost watch begins: harvest green tomatoes/peppers before the first freeze
Sat Oct 24 9–11 AM — 3 tasks: 🌿 Plant garlic in Bed B north end (8 sq ft, ~36 cloves); 🧺 Fall snap-pea harvest begins (Pallet 2); 🧺 Fall carrot harvest begins (Bed B) — leave them in the ground, mulch, pull all winter
Sat Oct 31 9–11 AM — 3 tasks: 🧺 Fall broccoli harvest (Bed B); 🔄 Pull pole beans after first frost; leave roots, compost vines; 🔄 Pull tomatoes & peppers after frost; DON'T compost diseased vines
All tasks in October
🧺Kale/collard harvest begins (Bed B) — outer leavesHarvest · Bed B — Kitchen bed · Kale & collards (fall)
Sweetest after the first frost. Producing until hard freeze (~Dec).
10-08
🧺Fall salad greens harvest begins (Bed A)Harvest · Bed A — Salad & Sauce bed · Fall greens (Bed A)
Spinach survives winter under leaf mulch → spring bonus crop.
10-13
🧤Top tomato plants + pull new flowers so remaining fruit ripens before frostCare · Bed A — Salad & Sauce bed · Tomatoes
Anything that isn't set by now won't make it.
10-14
🧺Frost watch begins: harvest green tomatoes/peppers before the first freezeHarvest · Whole garden · Garden
Check the Garden page — it flags forecast lows ≤ 34°F.
10-15
🌿Plant garlic in Bed B north end (8 sq ft, ~36 cloves)Plant · Bed B — Kitchen bed · Garlic
Hardneck (Music / German White) from the co-op or Southern Exposure — NOT grocery garlic. Pointy end up, 2" deep, 6" apart. Mulch 4" straw.
10-18
🧺Fall snap-pea harvest begins (Pallet 2)Harvest · Pallet 2 — Cucumbers & melon · Snap peas (fall)
Sweeter than spring peas; frost-tolerant to ~25°F, keeps going into November.
10-18
🧺Fall carrot harvest begins (Bed B) — leave them in the ground, mulch, pull all winterHarvest · Bed B — Kitchen bed · Fall carrots
The bed becomes a root cellar. Pull as needed through January.
10-23
🧺Fall broccoli harvest (Bed B)Harvest · Bed B — Kitchen bed · Fall broccoli
Tolerates frost to ~25°F.
10-28
🔄Pull pole beans after first frost; leave roots, compost vinesReset · Pallet 1 — Peas → Pole beans · Pole beans (summer)
Cut at the base. Lay 3" of leaves over the pallet bed for winter.
10-28
🔄Pull tomatoes & peppers after frost; DON'T compost diseased vinesReset · Bed A — Salad & Sauce bed · Tomatoes
Bag blighted vines. Rake bed, top with 2" compost + leaf mulch for winter.
10-28