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Fall garden: cucumbers rule

19 years ago


The okra has been coming in, pole beans too, and baby collard thinnings, yum. The biggest harvest has been the cucumbers: 4 gal.s Bread and Butter and 4 gal.s Kosher Dills so far. Yikes...there are more coming!! I usually have a hard time with this family, but it is happening this year. Dug compost under the seeds and talk about happy plants. Wow. Hope the lettuce and carrots seeds I planted do as well.

How are your fall gardens doing?

Comments (6)

  • 19 years ago

    Congrats on the cucs!
    I usually get a wonderful first flush of harvest and then the pests take over and reduce the rest of the harvest.

    The Okra I planted back in the Spring is still producing.

    The weather is starting to get nice for the greens finally. Hopefully lettuce does do well. I've grown carrots, they take a bit more patients. I'm planning to plant potatoes in December as the ones I planed in spring last year did not do well.

    Isn't it nice to be able to garden year round?

  • 19 years ago

    Bah!

    Snow tonight for us. I guess my fall garden isn't doing as well as yours.

  • 19 years ago

    hamiltongardener
    Enjoy the snow. You guys up north get that bug kill that we don't and have wonderful summer gardens when we are broiling and struggle to keep plants alive. It's all good!

  • 18 years ago

    Well, it is Nov.21 now & we still have producing cukes! Planted seed, March or April,I dont know what variety, Tasty Green or Sooyu long or? I'm saving some seeds though. There is a huge crop of tomatoes starting to ripen. I have tarps by each plant as frost possible in a few days. We thinned beets & cooked the tops with them today, Yum! I started planting Fallveg last Aug. & intervals until last week. Good thing as some plantings dont always make it. Post frost will try the rutabagas. Broccoli is beginning to produce. Today will try to start ordering seed for Spring which could arrive as soon as Feb. Lots of other Winter veg out there too. Happy Turkey Day to you!

  • 18 years ago

    I finally gave up on my cucs and others of that family. The pests in Late Sept/Oct just did too much damage. I did plant a few in containers in a good area for season extension to see how well that will work on the pavement in front of my garage.

    The Chinese Kale is doing well and the lettuce, spinach, radish, turnip, snow peas, herbs, onions, garlic, carrots, parsnips, and varrious other items seem to be doing well. We are back into the dry season so irrigation is a good thing.

    I've also made 5, 100 sf beds that I've planted cover crops in and am experimenting with different mulches. The oats and buckwheat are well up as I planted them first. There are a couple beds of wheat that I think are starting to sprout and I just planted the fifth bed with white clover. The grass like seedlings seem to do well with a mulch of spanish moss, they come right up through it. The buckwheat is having a little more difficulty with the spanish moss.

    I am eagerly awaiting leaf bags on the curbs here. I see that sycamore leaves are starting to drop.

    My papaya trees are getting heavy with their first fruit.

    I am very happy I planted some sweet potato this past summer. Some wonderful tubers there for the digging. I hope the vines and roots that I moved will survive the transfer this time of year. I wanted to make sure they had a good soft area to grow to make digging them easier. Sweet potato is perennial here.

  • 18 years ago

    The cucumbers just won't stop! I'm giving them away by the bag full! What a difference; they are usually hard for me to grow. I did bury compost under the plants and kept BT on them. Thought the pole beans were done and discovered another meals worth yesterday. Need to get my sugar snap peas planted soon. Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving.