Say Goodbye To Vegetable Garden

By Phran Novelli

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - OK, that's it, everybody out of the pool. Or rather, the pots.

Green tomatoes on the vine, let's go inside and see if any of you turn red, or get turned into some sort of pickle…or just lie there in a bag or a bowl on the kitchen counter until someone takes mercy and escorts you out to the compost pile.

If you don't grow vegetables all year - either in the ground or in a cold frame or under bell jars or a greenhouse of some sort - and I don't, the season's over.

Last week as I was gathering up the last of the peppers and tomatoes, I also found 'an onion.' Which I didn't plant this year. But I had onions in those pots last year, meaning this stray onion likely grew from a leftover bulblet or seed.

So, there it was in the middle of November one sweet onion with green scalliony leaves. Just the thing for topping off tacos; a fresh flavor of summer as winter was settling in, and a nice reminder of how surprising a garden can be in all kinds of interesting - and often tasty - ways.