Our season isn't over yet - we have another month of slowly ripening tomatoes from a late all-heirloom planting, lettuce, arugala, kale, radishes, and the carrots and beets which will be racing to beat the first frost. Any green tomatoes will go into salsa verde, which we eat a LOT of around here. :) I used to grow tomatillos, but we like it just as much made with unripe tomatoes, so now I just wait till the first frost.

Next year we are going to experiment with using landscape fabric or black paper mulch  with our transplants. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash, cabbages, kale, and swiss chard will all be planted that way, which will hopefully allow us to focus our weeding efforts on keeping our mesclun and other direct seeded crops weed free.

We'll be getting more serious about our early and/or fall onions in the hopes of a good storage crop, at least enough for our own use, and plant a ton more scallions - they fly when we bring them to market. Same goes for leeks - a LOT more leeks. They grow well from seed here, and there's no reason not to grow more of them. Hardneck garlic from NorthSlope farm will go in soon, we just need to decide where to plant it.

Mesclun mix is one of our best sellers, so we'll be expanding that, including a large spring planting of arugala.I'll also be starting my nasturtiums in early spring this year - they don't bloom for us in the hot months, and they got off to a late start this year.

We've grown plenty of tomatoes this year, and our pantry is stocked, but we realized at market the common varieties just don't sell through mid-summer. We'll focus on three very eye-catching heirlooms in color and shape - I'm thinking one highly lobed red one, Purple Krims, and one with lots of red and yellow/orange streaks. Hopefully they will catch people's attention  and our tomato sales will go up. We'll be growing sweet million cherries, a variety of grape tomatoes that our neighbor has developed over the years, and yellow pears. That will give a nice colorful mix of super early tomatoes. We'll have romas in too, but may not bring them to market as they don't sell well. Our peppers and eggplant suffered from weed competition but the mulch plans for next year should help with that, and we had some nice purple bells, sweet bananas, and asian eggplants.

Early spring root crops will be increased, as we didn't have enough this year. I'm going to go with french breakfast radishes - a favorite at market, a wide variety of colors of carrots, and plenty of chiogga beets. We also know now that we can never grow enough snow peas, so we'll double that planting. We prefer them to the sugar snaps, even though the sugar snaps fill out a pint basket faster.

Sucession planitngs of beans and squash will be stepped up - it's easier to get them in and out of the ground over and over again then relentlessly battle the squash bugs and mildew on older plantings. We didn't have good results with purple snap beans this year, so we may stick to green and yellow.  Dragon langerie performed well as usual, so we'll plant plenty of those. Summer squash doesn't sell all that well, but the squash blossoms are a huge hit at market, so we get two crops out of that, and we skipped winter squash this year, which we're missing now, so next year we'll fill a few mulched rows with acorn, butternut, hubbard, and spaghetti squash plants.  

Potaotes did better then expected, so we're increasing our plantings and trying for two crops next year, with a regular spring crop harvested in July and then baby new potatoes in the fall. We may try sweet potatoes again for our own use in the mulched beds since we start them from slips.   

The edamame were fun, but too labor intensive, and the brussel sprouts won't be ready before market is over, so we may skip them in favor of more red and green cabbage- people love the mini cabbage. :)

As far as perenials go, our much abused and moved around aspqaragus will finally get some major TLC, mulched heavily as it emerges next spring, side dressed with compost, and the random stragglers left from various moves transplanted to the main bed. If we can manage that, we should be able to get a nice harvest the year after.We'll see how the strawberries fill in and the rhubarb comes up, though soft fruits are one of those things I'm more then happy to go to other organic farms to pick and bring to market. In June we'll pick and sell strawberries, in July blueberries, in August blackberries, and then raspberries if we have time in September.

Bring on the seed catalogs :)