Are you doing a fall garden?

20 years ago

What are you growing, and when did you, or when will you, plant it?

I have summer squash, with the first female flower opening today so I should have squash soon. (It went in the spot where I pulled out the brandywine tomatoes. Delicious but I won't do them again; too short a season and too prone to virus.)

I will plant edible-pod peas if I can find seed, or if the old seed I had around will sprout.. doing a germination test now.

I planted my cool weather cover crop this week. It is a mixture of several things; a rye, a clover, some others.

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Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
20 years ago
My DH will be planting garlic soon and for some reason the squash vine borer didn't get our crook neck squash this year so we have the original plant and the new one we started about 2 weeks ago to keep us supplied with summer squash for awhile.

I've always wondered about Brandywine Tomatoes. You hear how divine tasting they are, but then I heard that they are not, repeat NOT a good variety for the south. Still I've always wanted to compare their taste to a non-heirloom variety like Jet Star (which is the one we like the best).
barton
Original Author
20 years ago
Well the Brandywines were gorgeous, but the Burpee Buck's County Hybrid is a tomato that I will definitely do again. They slowed down during the heat, but never really quit. I still am getting a few, at least enough that I haven't cut them down. They even bounced back from a major hornworm attack. I just watched those green monsters munch away, influenced no doubt by Susan and her caterpillar garden :) (Gotta admit they were interesting.) The Buck's Countys even outlasted the cherry tomatoes. Maybe someone ought to start a thread on good tomato varieties for Oklahoma? Maybe tomorrow.

I am still getting tomatillos and more tomatillos. I had never done them before and didn't know what to expect so I planted six plants maybe 18 inches apart. The vines sprawled to a mat about 5 feet wide, hard as heck to harvest. I've given away lots of salsa verde. I even mailed a box of fresh tomatillos to a cook I know.
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Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
20 years ago
Yes, start a thread on Tomatoes. Good time to do it so we can look over the catalogs and know what's what. I'll get my DH to take a look. I personally don't care that much for tomatoes except in a few things (like BLT's), but DH loves them.
barton
Original Author
20 years ago
I started a tomato thread so will get back on track.

I planted edible pod peas today. The old seed (1993!) had 80% germination so I used it.

Earlier in the week I planted my cool weather cover crop, but I'm getting lots of wheat sprouting from the straw that I had used for mulch earlier in the year. Looks like my cool weather crop may be winter wheat!

I also put up the electric fence for the deer; won't help with the bunnies though.