October is such a lovely month in the garden. The weather is starting to cool, fall tomatoes are making their way skyward, pumpkins are ripening on the vine. It is time to put in brassicas, winter tolerant herbs, spring blooming flowers like snapdragons, bulbs and trees, and to seed native wildflowers. It is that last energetic push before slowing down for winter. In my garden I am still harvesting okra, Seminole pumpkins, hatch peppers, eggplants, swiss chard and tons of