<p>Dr Google, may I recommend a chicken wire fence around your strawberry bed? It solved the issue in our case. Our rabbits were not interested in strawberry leaves and berries, but the flowers apparently were a special delicacy to them since I observed rabbits nibbling on the flowers many times. Quinault is everbearing, so it should be a good choice. My potted plants still produced berries in September.</p>
<p>We used to have Quinault and, unfortunately, the berries weren’t very sweet. They did come back year after year. Now I intentionally choose a different variety if I plant strawberries.</p>
<p>I have Chandler as the other choice but the plants didn’t look good. I’ve heard the fruits are smaller. Since this is a permanent bed so everbearing is a good idea even though I didn’t put much thought into it. But I have more choices in spring.
Thanks for the ideas on keeping the rabbit out, I think I’m going to cover the whole that allows him in and out. </p>
<p>The whole hole? B-) </p>
<p>Yes hole and not whole. I haven’t had coffee yet.</p>
<p>Have often been a victim of the “post before morning cup of coffee” myself. No worries. </p>
<p>I planted all my strawberry plants today. They look so attractive on the banks. One thing I’ve learned that as we age we should make gardening easier. I was sitting on the wall and planting my strawberry plants. I think I should get the rest of the planting area this level.</p>
<p>My tomatoes came back after the blight! The brown branches were driving me nuts so I kept plucking them off. Low and behold, new green ones came in in September and the grape and cherry tomatoes kept coming on. There is a frost predicted for this week though so they may really be done. We’re thinking next year of just growing tomatoes, kale, swiss chard - that’s REALLY been coming on since September and maybe some lettuce. It’s cheaper to buy cukes and squash at roadside stands than it is to buy plants, grow them and have them taken over by squash beetles. </p>
<p>I hear that for blight, you have to move the plants from prior areas. So bush cukes in containers can be good. My cherry tomatoes are also still coming in. As predicted, my green peppers are budding, now that the weather is cooler (not that it makes sense, since my grandmother grew them in AZ.) We moved all the containers against the house, knowing a frost is coming. Another advantage to pots. I never got strawbs on 3 plants, wish I knew the trick. Bigger pot next year? </p>
<p>I will probably rotate the tomatoes next summer, but really, it didn’t seem to affect the production. It just looked bad. This is the time of year that I wish we had planted fruit trees when we moved here 17 years ago. I’ve been picking apples at local orchards and making sauce. It would be so nice to have my own tree!</p>
<p>Smiling to see this thread bumped again - will be SOO sad to see it go (for me and gardening) for the winter!</p>
<p>Still am picking some grape and sugar sweet mini tomatoes but think I will be pulling those plants in a week or so - many fruit on them, but we just aren’t having the temperature to support them turning ripe. I have a second round of radish that will hopefully mature in a week or two. Still cutting beautiful zinnias for vases weekly. But will probably pull it all in the next 10 days or so and call it a season. </p>
<p>Had our last community garden meeting of the season Saturday with a potluck - everyone brought a dish that featured produce from their garden. AMAZING! Better than Thanksgiving meal!! I brought a tomato pie - it disappeared! Other yummy dishes: tomato pudding, beet and goat cheese salad, corn fritters, sweet potato casserole, carrot cupcakes, fresh bread and big garlic cloves in a delicious sauce to spread on the bread, caprese salad - the list goes on and on!</p>
<p>We were told that they will be asking everyone to NOT plant any squash (except butternut) or cucumbers next year due to an invasion of a particular bug they have battling the last couple of years. I’m ok with those restrictions. :)</p>
<p>Its November, we’ve had several frost warnings and temps in the low 30s. The cherry tomato plants are almost dead-- but still producing fruit!! Came back from being out of town and picked 18 tomatoes, with more on the vines!!</p>
<p>Mine, too! And the peppers are budding.</p>
<p>My excitement this weekend was getting a whole dump truck of manure from the farmer down the road. Garden is put to bed and now has a nice blanket of aged cow manure to keep it warm.</p>
<p>I love your priorities, onward!! </p>
<p>Wow, that’s awesome. You spring veggies will have a running start, Onward!</p>
<p>I cleared dead eggplant plants from the garden. Five more months until I can plant anything! 
One consolation is that my herbs in pots on the deck are still thriving.</p>
<p>I’m trying to seed some basil in the house on the sunporch. Hasn’t sprouted yet so I’m skeptical. Might have to see if I can find some more seeds - HATE having to do without herbs (at hand) this time of year!!!</p>
<p>Still have some radishes that I haven’t checked on in over a week at my community garden. And some zinnias. If they haven’t croaked! We have a garden deadline of November 30 to have it completely cleaned out and to put a 4 inch layer of leaf mulch on top to winter over. </p>
<p>Last trip when I was pulling out everything else, I still had lots of green sugar sweets on vines. I picked the biggest, most developed ones and brought them home - 2-3 cups worth - they are all almost turned ripe! Will make my roasted grape tomato recipe with them over pasta for one more “hurrah” this week of the garden!</p>
<p>So sad to see the season end. I loved it!!! </p>