Pretty late for planting in zone 5 so if these are all seedlings then perhaps you may get a few cucumbers before frost time, but yes they should all go into the ground ASAP.

The onions and chives should come back next year but everything else you listed needs replanting yearly (in early spring of course). Good luck!

Hi chris05, if you don't want to replant things each year then you don't have a whole lot of vegetable options in z5. You could try asparagus, rhubarb and some other herbs besides the chives as they will survive in our zone. You might consider fruit trees, blueberries, grapes, etc.

How big are your plants and what kind are they? If they are far enough along you might be able to harvest some with protection later on in the fall.

Have your onions formed bulbs? As I understand it you wait until the tops brown and fall over, but I planted a lot of onions close together and pulled every other one to eat the tops as green onions all summer. I kept some unsprouted onion sets in the refrigerator and planted some every few weeks just for the tops.

I have gotten a longer harvest of tomatoes by covering them when there was danger of frost. If you only have time to get green tomatoes there are a number of things you can do with them.

There is a lot to learn about growing your own food. This place is a good place to spend some time. I learn something new here every day.

If I were you, I'd transplant the chives into a bigger pot instead of growing in the ground. Chives are small onions and can take over a bed or your yard. It's almost impossible to get rid of them. It's important to cut the blossoms off before they drop seed. A friend of mine had to remove all the dirt in a flower bed and a few of them still popped up!

Jennifer