I'm not certain. I think they're a short-season crop. Whenever I see "Plant once every two weeks to keep yourself in [whatever] all summer long" on the back of a seed package, I feel comfortable that I'll get at least something from the plants That's what it says on the back of most cucumbers and beans packages. Squash, too.Skoorbmax wrote: Why is that, though? Why is it that these plants may have a lifespan even less than the frost dates...? I did put these in in May (started seedlings end of April indoors) but the first actual Cucumber was around July 14-15.
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After 40 years of planting a garden you learn what to expect. After July the garden slows down and hot weather or blight might kill it. Once the plants produce their fruit some of them just naturally die.
Beans are a 65 day crop after the first crop they might produce a small crop before is gets hot. Once it gets extremely hot and dry the beans are finished. My beans are all brown and look terrible I am going to pull them up and put them in the compost this weekend. I will probably plant a winter crop in this row next month maybe turnip greens or swiss chard.
Corn it about 65 to 75 day crop. After you pick corn it needs to be cut down. I plant my second crop of beans where the corn was. My beans are up I had to water every day but they were up in 2 days. It is so hot and dry the beans will grow very slow but when the weather turns cool they will grow faster. I hope they make a crop of beans before it frost. I can throw a tarp over them at night to protect them until they produce beans.
Potatoes are a longer crop if you got them planted early they should be ready to dig up about now. Blight killed my potatoes but I planted more last week.
Tomatoes will last until frost kills them. When it gets extremely hot tomatoes slow down. Once the weather turns cool tomatoes will do fine again. Blight is killing my tomatoes I have been spraying them every week and so far so good but I think I am loosing the battle.
Melons and a 120 day crop once they produce they are finished.
Squash will produce all summer too if something does not kill them.
Okra is slow to grow and it does fine in just about any soil. I starts producing about mid July and produces until frost kills it. Hot dry weather has not effect on this crop it actually seems to do better the hotter and dryer it gets.
Peppers. All peppers seem to grow slow at first. The plants start producing peppers about July and will produce until they are killed by frost.
One thing we use to do on the farm when I was growing up was to plant a large enough first crop to get a years supply of food from the first harvest. If blight or hot weather kills the crop then so what. I always plant enough tomatoes to can about 100 pints and 20 quarts in mason jars by mid July. If blight or hot weather kills my tomatos I have a year supply in mason jars. I sure do love having garden tomatoes until frost. One year I had tomatoes until Dec 31 I kept them covered every night to protect then from frost.
The folks that live up north where the weather is cooler will have better luck with their garden this time of the year. Here in the south is gets so hot and dry my garden suffers pretty bad in July. I have to get my garden planted early so I can pick my harvest by the first or second week of July.
Don't fertilize your plants in extremely hot dry weather it will kill them.
Beans are a 65 day crop after the first crop they might produce a small crop before is gets hot. Once it gets extremely hot and dry the beans are finished. My beans are all brown and look terrible I am going to pull them up and put them in the compost this weekend. I will probably plant a winter crop in this row next month maybe turnip greens or swiss chard.
Corn it about 65 to 75 day crop. After you pick corn it needs to be cut down. I plant my second crop of beans where the corn was. My beans are up I had to water every day but they were up in 2 days. It is so hot and dry the beans will grow very slow but when the weather turns cool they will grow faster. I hope they make a crop of beans before it frost. I can throw a tarp over them at night to protect them until they produce beans.
Potatoes are a longer crop if you got them planted early they should be ready to dig up about now. Blight killed my potatoes but I planted more last week.
Tomatoes will last until frost kills them. When it gets extremely hot tomatoes slow down. Once the weather turns cool tomatoes will do fine again. Blight is killing my tomatoes I have been spraying them every week and so far so good but I think I am loosing the battle.
Melons and a 120 day crop once they produce they are finished.
Squash will produce all summer too if something does not kill them.
Okra is slow to grow and it does fine in just about any soil. I starts producing about mid July and produces until frost kills it. Hot dry weather has not effect on this crop it actually seems to do better the hotter and dryer it gets.
Peppers. All peppers seem to grow slow at first. The plants start producing peppers about July and will produce until they are killed by frost.
One thing we use to do on the farm when I was growing up was to plant a large enough first crop to get a years supply of food from the first harvest. If blight or hot weather kills the crop then so what. I always plant enough tomatoes to can about 100 pints and 20 quarts in mason jars by mid July. If blight or hot weather kills my tomatos I have a year supply in mason jars. I sure do love having garden tomatoes until frost. One year I had tomatoes until Dec 31 I kept them covered every night to protect then from frost.
The folks that live up north where the weather is cooler will have better luck with their garden this time of the year. Here in the south is gets so hot and dry my garden suffers pretty bad in July. I have to get my garden planted early so I can pick my harvest by the first or second week of July.
Don't fertilize your plants in extremely hot dry weather it will kill them.
Gary350 wrote:After 40 years of planting a garden you learn what to expect. After July the garden slows down and hot weather or blight might kill it. Once the plants produce their fruit some of them just naturally die.
Beans are a 65 day crop after the first crop they might produce a small crop before is gets hot. Once it gets extremely hot and dry the beans are finished. My beans are all brown and look terrible I am going to pull them up and put them in the compost this weekend. I will probably plant a winter crop in this row next month maybe turnip greens or swiss chard.
Corn it about 65 to 75 day crop. After you pick corn it needs to be cut down. I plant my second crop of beans where the corn was. My beans are up I had to water every day but they were up in 2 days. It is so hot and dry the beans will grow very slow but when the weather turns cool they will grow faster. I hope they make a crop of beans before it frost. I can throw a tarp over them at night to protect them until they produce beans.
Potatoes are a longer crop if you got them planted early they should be ready to dig up about now. Blight killed my potatoes but I planted more last week.
Tomatoes will last until frost kills them. When it gets extremely hot tomatoes slow down. Once the weather turns cool tomatoes will do fine again. Blight is killing my tomatoes I have been spraying them every week and so far so good but I think I am loosing the battle.
Melons and a 120 day crop once they produce they are finished.
Squash will produce all summer too if something does not kill them.
Okra is slow to grow and it does fine in just about any soil. I starts producing about mid July and produces until frost kills it. Hot dry weather has not effect on this crop it actually seems to do better the hotter and dryer it gets.
Peppers. All peppers seem to grow slow at first. The plants start producing peppers about July and will produce until they are killed by frost.
One thing we use to do on the farm when I was growing up was to plant a large enough first crop to get a years supply of food from the first harvest. If blight or hot weather kills the crop then so what. I always plant enough tomatoes to can about 100 pints and 20 quarts in mason jars by mid July. If blight or hot weather kills my tomatos I have a year supply in mason jars. I sure do love having garden tomatoes until frost. One year I had tomatoes until Dec 31 I kept them covered every night to protect then from frost.
The folks that live up north where the weather is cooler will have better luck with their garden this time of the year. Here in the south is gets so hot and dry my garden suffers pretty bad in July. I have to get my garden planted early so I can pick my harvest by the first or second week of July.
Don't fertilize your plants in extremely hot dry weather it will kill them.
I hear ya, Gary. I'm starting to get a feel for the seasonal progression of my garden as well. Most notable is the early fall bringing powdery mildew to all my squash. Hopefully the preventive milk-sprays will reduce this.
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Our cucumbers look like this too. It starts with a few specks of powdery mold/ yellow spots on the upper (mold on the lower) parts of the leaves, then kills the leaves, then the stems, then the whole vine.
Grandma calls it "the vines drying up." and claims that end of July/ August is when it happens. I guess she is right. I just wish I could defy it...
We don't drink milk. Grandma only gets the skim milk kind if she gets it at all, or mixes the powdered kind. I need another option to combat the mold.
Grandma calls it "the vines drying up." and claims that end of July/ August is when it happens. I guess she is right. I just wish I could defy it...
We don't drink milk. Grandma only gets the skim milk kind if she gets it at all, or mixes the powdered kind. I need another option to combat the mold.
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