Kennebec and Khatadin. I like then both very much. Used to plant purple and pink varieties, however I found little taste in them. Oh well.
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Dang, Ginny! You’ve really got me salivating now. I had to go grab a piece of apple cake after seeing that last pic. 
It’s all wonderful. My entire main veggie garden might not even be as large as your potato patch. I’m going to have to work hard to keep channeling what could easily become Northern Summer Garden Envy so that it stays Appreciation instead of becoming envy. I’ve gotta say, you make it a challenge. 
I believe today is the last full day of summer. The tables are turning for the fall phase. We Southerners are now likely to have better growing conditions than you Northerners. We’ll still have the challenges of possible early frosts and freezes, but odds of growing foods outdoors will tilt in our favor. Most “summer vegetables” even struggle when it’s over 100 degrees, droughty and humid. I doubt I’ll ever have a squash garden as green and lush as yours. It’s BEAUTIFUL! I’m glad for you.
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Pink potatoes? Are they a fingerling type? I heard Kennebec is a really good variety. I will have to look up Khatadin. Do you buy your potato seed local, or do you order from a company.
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Ginny
I love apple cake and this is a great time of year of make and bake some. I love it while still warm from the oven. Did you bake it yourself?? I have to go pick some first at the orchard up the road. Our apple trees did not produce any but a handful this year. We had a cold snap when they were in bloom, plus the trees act like biennials.
Ginny
Yes. Yes, I did. This one I went whole hog and iced it with a penuche icing. But they are so moist, tasty, and on their own that icing really isn’t needed. I still want to make at least 4 more (non-iced) for the freezer. I prefer to use somewhat tart apples, but they don’t have to be. I can tell that you are an excellent and adventurous cook, and probably have your own favorite apple cake recipes.
I wish I could say that I grew the apples, but in this, my tenth year of trying to grow apple trees, I was finally able to harvest a total of 3 fire ant filled apples from a 3rd year tree. These were harvested a couple of weeks ago during a foray to an orchard up in VA with two of my daughters. One of my brothers lives in the middle of a 300+ acre orchard in the mountains there.
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I buy the seed potatoes from our local Agway. They sell about twenty varieties, but those two are my faves.
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My phone didn’t ring asking me to come over and have one!
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Getting near the end of the season here. A pretty good season all around. Lots of inspiration from this forum and this thread.
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Lovely! Lovely! Lovely veggies with a gorgeous range of colors! I hope my fall plantings survive so I, too, can eat fresh chard and carrots once again. Right now, though, I’m enjoying seeing yours.
Nice shots. Love the carrots, really beautiful.
Beautiful. LOVE the red carrots!
Nice fall harvest 
I love a good apple cake with penuche icing… It sounds so yummy right now…Freezing them is a good idea.
I need to buy some local apples as our trees are biennials. The trees we get our apples from are old trees planted from birds years ago… At least that is what my mother in law told me many years ago. We have a lot of overgrown orchards around here.
My hubby and I have tried to grow apples for years… The trees always die back every winter. We had a few that we had large cages over but the deer got to them… I don’t understand why, but, we can grow plums and cherries with no problem.
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Beautiful pictures! The carrots are gorgeous.
The past week and a half have been so eventful and rather urgently busy that even though barely two weeks have past since I finished planting, it seems like much longer since I completed transplanting the last of the fall/winter veggies. I did get the chard, cabbage, collards, broccoli, and additional lettuces and cauliflower in. I did also have to reseed the spinach because, thanks mostly to ants, absolutely none came up. The second time around I pre-soaked (spellcheck recommended that I change that to pee-soaked 
) and sprouted the spinach before painstakingly planting each individual seed.
I should have been celebrating the timely completion of planting. I was looking forward to that. It seemed like the first year ever that the autumn weather cooperated with my plans. This year the heat gave way to cloudy, rainy days - perfect weather to get out there between the rains each day and transplant. That type weather really helps reduce shock and helps them settle in. I usually have to try to protect them from baking. Not so much this year. Too many cloudy days in a row usually get me down, but this go round seemed advantageous and not at all depressing.
That ‘perfect weather’ was deceptive! After at least 10 days of clouds and rain more than saturating our drought dried soil, the real deluges arrived. The weekend rains came hard. Saturday night’s were beating down at over 2" an hour. The main veggie gardens are at the top of hill and the soil drains pretty well (sometimes I think too well). They did not flood. Also, I had them covered with heavy duty insect netting as needed protection from being devoured by the crazy grasshopper outbreak I’ve had for the first time this year, caterpillars, and insatiable rabbits. I give that netting credit for also saving the transplants and the carrots from being beaten into compost and for helping to keep the soil from washing away. Unfortunately, it was too much for the newly sprouting spinach and young beets. They were completely gone. 
I’m going to try planting them one more time if I can find any more seeds, even though I think it’s getting a little late. Gardening is like that. There is always something new and unexpected. I prefer the happier surprises. At least we live in a time and place where we have the option of going to the market for our needs when crops fail. And even if I don’t manage to get the spinach and beets going, the chard and kale appear to be doing well. Now I’m wishing that I’d planted more chard to sub for the spinach and beet greens… . It will be awhile before I can check to see if the potatoes are okay. They are in a separate area that is still very soggy because that area got swamped AGAIN this weekend. I’m not sure how they’ll fare with staying soaked for at least two weeks. All in all, the veggie gardens fared much better than they might have, all things considered. I’m thankful that any losses are merely inconveniences and nothing like many places in my neighborhood.
I also had a GOOD unexpected surprise from the garden today. The asparagus evidently enjoyed the continuous soaking and cooler (60’s to 80’s) weather. I discovered fresh, fat shoots coming up! If it’s ever before done that in the fall for me, I haven’t caught them. Tomorrow I shall savor the unexpected pleasure of a meal of asparagus and eggs!
I’m also continuing to harvest tomatoes, eggplant, and red and orange bell peppers. It’s the first time I’ve ever had that combination ready at one time.
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Love it!!
Nice! I have a few, many ripened this year for me on time. Next year I have to cut back as I have a lot of work planned in the summer. I can’t tend my garden as much! Sucks! So I may grow only a few plants next year. I usually grow about 15 tomato plants.