My fall garden continues to grow well despite the desert dryness and the above normal temperatures. Central Indiana is now in moderate drought, with not much relief in sight for the foreseeable future. As long as the garden gets watered once a week, I think it will continue to do well. The August planted broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and kohlrabi plants continue to get bigger and they appear to be on schedule for a mid-October through November harvest window. The mid-July sown carrots continue to grow nicely. Over the past few weeks I have been harvesting green beans, lettuce, hot banana peppers, jalapeno peppers, poblano peppers, and just a few tomatoes. The last of the celery was harvested yesterday. This is the first time I have grown Tabasco pepper, which is just now starting to produce little red mature peppers. The plants are really tall (about 4 foot high) with many green peppers still on the plant (see pic below). I probably will not grow this pepper again next year. It is an open pollinated pepper, so I will save some of the seeds in case I decide to grow it again in the future. I really like the Super Chili hybrid pepper, but the seeds have gotten really expensive, and I decided to try Tabasco this year. I think I found a non-hybrid open pollinated replacement for Super Chili called Matchbox, which I will definitely be growing next year.

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