The Urban Permaculture Farm Magazine
For 
September is the happy time in the garden
Thanks to my healthy soil there was no lasting or permanent damage. The harvest has been great, my heirloom tomatoes have been tastier than ever and my cucumbers have been coming in by the bushel.
My Straight Eight variety has been producing eighteen inch cucumbers since July. Luckily cucumber is a universally loved vegetable because I have hundreds of them.
My neighbor and friend Edgar Milford has turned me on to Musa Oronoco banana tree that is cold hardy! So I will be adding these trees into my city orchard this month. They come from the Oronoco river valley and grow and thrive under very tough conditions in South America.
It isn't local, but if it works my CARIBBEAN spirit will be greatly lifted. Even if it doesn't fruit, and that is something we don't know, just having banana leaves for cooking fresh and all sorts of Caribbean dishes.
Eggplants are coming in nicely, can't wait to taste them.
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