I am new to this group am 70 years old and learning how to grow vegetables and herbs and trying to eat more plant based because I am overweight and a diabetic. This is my first year growing my Garden in containers. It Didn’t do so well because I had them up next to my House and they were not Getting enough sun plus I wasn’t Fertilizing enough and didn’t realize the watering was washing the Nutrients out. I have corrected that and am getting fall produce now. I live in WA 8b or 9a zone. I am planting garlic by End of Oct and especially like growing more out of scrape of veggies. I am doubling the size Of my Garden next year because I bought everything When it was on sale In late Sept. i have been researching how to grow each veggie and got a soil test kit Then since I use a wheelchair I put my pots and grow bags up on pallets and my son will put in watering system in spring.

I started indoor gardening when I was 18. I grew four pothos plants up to six feet long and hung them over my dorm window as curtains. Fifty years later, I now have over a 100 houseplants and two outdoor gardens. Few people relate to my love of outdoor container gardening and houseplants. With this group, I know I have found my tribe.

Just updated the hardscape in our front yard.

While we just squeaked through without frost Monday night, it is time to do the fall garden work in the Garden For Ability. I'm cleaning up some of the summer crops so I can get the area ready and babying the beans through until I can collect the seed. Here is a tiny bit of Monday's work. What are you creating for the future?

A couple of weeks ago, Cabbage worms stripped my Kale down to the veins. I cut everything back to the main stalk and dipped it in a bucket of soapy water. I also cut back the parsley growing next to it back to 2 inches above the soil level. The good news: It seems to have worked. Both the kale and the parsley are coming back. I almost always harvest parsley this way anyway. I expected the kale to come back as well. The bad news: Something keeps nibbling off the budding kale leaves. We have ground hogs, rabbits, and squirrels. I have some empty milk crates now, so I'm put them upside down over it. We will find out if it is squirrels or the bigger fur balls. Always an adventure.