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Post by daylilydude on Sept 12, 2017 5:15:32 GMT -5
Do you grow a fall garden... why or why not??
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Post by spike on Sept 12, 2017 7:25:03 GMT -5
I only do a couple of things. I have carrots and turnips going. And soon I will plant my garlic for next year. In all honesty I am never real sure when to start a fall garden. The weather here is so dang odd. This morning it was 48° but it is supposed to get up to 80 today BUT two days ago I drug out my jeans and a sweater.
I would love to plant a fall garden but am pretty clueless about what and when to plant.
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Post by paulf on Sept 12, 2017 8:30:15 GMT -5
Has not worked out well here. Southeast Nebraska seems to go from really hot and dry to freezing almost overnight. We have tried green beans and several salad style things and they just do not produce. Even cover crops do not have enough time. Most of the garden is in tomatoes, peppers and vine crops and they do well right up to frost. Then they and I run out of steam and it is time for both of us to rest and recuperate.
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Post by meandtk on Sept 12, 2017 9:02:42 GMT -5
Yes I grow one for my family, and to share with others.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Sept 12, 2017 9:41:40 GMT -5
Yep, I am about to go work outside and work on that now.
Here in N FL the fall garden is really the fall and winter garden. Most (but not all) of the cool weather veggies will survive and produce all winter here. And we can usually sneak in a crop of green beans between the brutal heat of summer and the first frost. Plus it's a lot nicer to be outside between Sept-Nov than it is from Jun-Aug!
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Post by ladymarmalade on Sept 12, 2017 10:24:20 GMT -5
Most years I try. Most years it fails, but it doesn't stop me from trying again!
IN fact, the last three weeks have been on the cool side, but today I see the ten day forecast has us back to summer-ish temps! 70's and 80's this week!
Off to go through seeds and see what I want to gamble on this year. Lettuces for sure, maybe some peas if I have some quick ones.
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Post by september on Sept 12, 2017 10:38:22 GMT -5
No fall garden here. What summer stuff I have, keeps growing right up until frost or disease takes it down, which ever comes first.
I try to remember to sow some new lettuce in mid-August, but often don't get around to it because August is my busiest harvest month. I have 3rd crop green beans, broccoli sprouts, cukes, tomatoes and peppers still going strong, though I only use the first three things fresh now because I've frozen all I need. We've had lows in the 38F range during the last cold snap, but I expect the first killing frost to come some time in early October.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Sept 12, 2017 17:47:15 GMT -5
Always! And my fall garden is pretty much what I grow in the spring, though I also grow peas (snow and sugar snap), which I have given up on in spring, as we ALWAYS have a heat snap early, that screws up peas.
Asian greans grow much faster than other brassicas, being ready to harvest often in 30 days, and are cut and come again, as is leaf lettuce - another green that I plant in spring, fall, and indoors. I saved seeds from a leaf lettuce I got in a mix this year, because it was the largest of 8 plants, and the slowest to bolt, lasting into July! I'll soon find out how cold resistant it is.
I probably won't do it this season, due to Mom's medical problems, but I sometimes cover my greens with hoops, and remnant greenhouse plastic, and grow them through the winter. Tatsoi does best, along with komatsuna, senposai, and misome. Chard and lettuce were the first to die, and wouldn't come back, while mizuna and bok choy would die, but come back quickly during milder, sunny periods, even in Jan or Feb. Kohlrabi stopped growing at about 2", the time I planted a bunch of seedlings under the cover in late Oct. (about a month later than usual), but in March they started growning again, and reached normal size.
I've got my seedlings started indoors already. As in spring, I don't direct seed, as the rabbits think it's for them. I sprinkle some Sluggo, plant, and cover.
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Post by horsea on Sept 14, 2017 12:00:44 GMT -5
I grow cover crops on those parts of the garden where things have been harvested and removed while it's still relatively warm. Things like winter rye and radish (white radish)keep on growing til a real bad freeze.
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