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what's in your 2011 Fall Garden?

Most of us are still locked in this heat wave but I was wondering what you all have or are going to have in your fall garden this year.

I haven't really planned much trying to keep up with my tomatoes has been a chore. That and trying to keep everything alive in this heat.

I still have lettuce in pots and some brussels sprouts that I want to plant. Not really a fall thin but I may take out my beans and replant since mine went down with the ship. Oh yeah and peas I almost forgot time ti plant some peas as well.

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My fall garden is "Harvest what I planted in the spring". You who have time for two crops are fortunate. I will dig the potatoes, pull the onions, and pick up the winter squash. I planted a late crop of peas the first of July, and I don't think they are going to make it. Fall garden? Too funny! :P

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Carrots- just carrots. Ran out of time, and room, to plant anything else since my spring plantings are still going ":)

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I'm trying to fill the garden up with as many plants as I can. I've started seeds for lots of broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage. I'm going to direct sow carrots, leeks, and parsnips this week. In September, I'll start onion seeds.

I have lots of room since I don't have much in the garden right now. All I have are two tomato plants, 4 Brussels Sprouts plants, and a huge watermelon plant. I didn't plant many summer crops. I hate summer and I prefer the cool season plants. I'm surprised at how well the Brussels Sprouts are doing. A few of the plants are about 3 feet tall now. I planted them around February 15.

About the only time plants are not growing here is from December 15 to February 15. Even then they grow on a few days when we get into the 50s-70s. Winter temperatures here vary greatly so they stop/start growth many times in the winter.

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Two weeks ago I extended my small garden bed so that I could plant some carrots (danvers half long) and kale (dwarf blue curled) for fall. This will be my first attempt at fall crops.

I also have a nice stand of swiss chard that has been producing nicely through the summer. I expect it to continue to produce well into fall.

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cabbage, collards, mustard greens, turnips, radish and spinach. I may try some swiss chard this year.

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I had plans for green beans, radish, turnip and maybe another try at cukes but with the heat and drought I'm not going to do it.

I plan to double dig the beds and add another couple in the mean time. I might fall plant one into clover or alfalfa for the compost pile. I'd also like to get a bed ready for comfrey too.

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Spinach... Not sure if I will have room for much else as the pumpkin has taken over and won't be done and out until it's way too late. May plant something small once the peppers are done but not sure what.

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I am working my way thru the potato patch, harvesting and getting those beds ready for Asian greens. The sweet onions will be ready for harvest in another week or so and that space will also be available. I've pulled out my packets of seeds and will begin sowing seeds for the greens after the soil has settled a little.

I've pulled this off before altho' and there's enuf variety to keep me happy but I can't help but add to it a little :). Here's what is ready to go:

What I'm most looking forward to is Komatsuna Summerfest. The plants are just as tender and nice early in the season but they bolt quickly. They won't have that problem in the fall. I've only planted it in the spring but Choy Sum is something you want to bolt because, like broccoli, the stalk and flower buds are valued. Still, the leaves are tasty too - if it decides not to develop flowers. There's also a chance that Choy Sum can overwinter and I just might allow it to do so.

I grew Beka Santoh for the first time this spring. It is supposed to be a "loose head Chinese cabbage," as is Fun Jen, which I've had in my garden for about the last 5 years. This fall will be my chance to grow them side-by-side and see how much difference there is between the 2. Honestly, they are very much like tender mustards.

The greatest number of square feet in my former potato patch will be taken up with baby bok choy. For over 20 years, I've grown bok choy and found times for sowing and harvest throughout nearly all of the growing season. I've got both green stem (2 varieties) and Red Choi.

All of these can be moved around once the plants get started. That's important since my staggered potato harvest really takes me beyond the time I can successfully get a crop from sowing seed. Therefore, the seed will go in a little heavy at first so that there are plants that can move where the last of the potatoes are coming out. They will also take the place of some of the sweet onions, which have not yet completed their season.

Finally, there are a few containers with tiny lettuce plants growing in the backyard. When the weather begins to cool a little, those plants will go into a corner of the garden that gets quite a bit of afternoon shade. Direct-seeding there might work but it helps that I can move the lettuce starts around the yard to take advantage of shade pretty much all day right now since the highs are in the 90's for awhile.

Those are my plans - take advantage of ground being freed-up by the potato and onion harvest - yeah!

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I have two beds this year, so I actually have room for a fall garden!

In bed number 1: Where the spring broccoli and spinach was, I planted more radishes as well as some beets and carrots. Where the garlic was, I put in a second crop of zucchini, as well as broccoli and brussel sprouts. And once the onions come out, I'll plant spinach. I've been sort of sticking lettuce in here and there as I go.

Bed number 2: when the peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, initial zucchini plants, and eggplants call it quits, I'll it will be time to think about prepping the bed for planting next year's garlic crop.

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My normal fall tomatoes will be included. They will be a mix of plants that survived the summer heat, plants grown from seed for the fall garden, and plants grown from cuttings.

I will plant lettuce for fall and winter harvest in late august as well as collard greens and turnip greens for a winter harvest. My garlic will be planted in mid August for a late May, early June harvest next year. I will start growing my tomatoes from seed under lights in December for planting out in early March of next year.

I want to grow some brassica like cabbage this year, but I am not sure how to grow it. It will be my first attempt and I don't have high expectations due to cabbage loopers and other pests.

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Just lots of leaves and grass clippings! Makes for good compost in the spring :P

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My fall garden will have everything from my summer garden that will still be ripening, our summer sucks, cloudy, cold, rainy... we get a rare day of 26C, but most sunny days are only 20 to 22, so disappointing. But actually, I will get some lettuce in, hopefully, and some radishes.. okay, lots of radishes, and some brassicas.

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Left the sweet corn standing even though it is done (and was VERY tasty :D ) and I am planning on garden peas in that space. I'm not sure it's a good idea, but I'm thinking I can plant the peas around the base of the corn stalks and use them as a support, they are pretty brown and dry now.

Am also hoping to replace the bush beans (Damn rabbits!!! :evil: ) with broccoli and lettuce, have not had much luck with lettuce as I can't seem to get the timing right, not much cool spring in Alabama, I hope fall will work out better....

trying to convince Little Man to let me replace his red noodle beans with snow peas too.....limited success on that front tho. He loves snow peas, but his noodle beans are HIS and he wants them to stay in until the last bean dies!! They were a GREAT kids gardening project and I think he is nearly as attached to them as he is to his pets!! :roll:

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Good replies.

James I feel for you and you short season than I think of you beautiful landscape and little to no humidity and I wake back up. :lol: You still do great though. Keep doing what you do. :D

Lot of different thing going on here, I almost feel lame for not doing more but I have been busy and IT HAS BEEN HOT!!!. I don't think many fall veggies would make it through the germination stage.

Lots of talk about Asian greens I have yet to try them maybe this is the year. I need some motivation and under 100 degree temps. :cry: My wife and I pulled a few rows of carrot the other day to make room. But I am waiting on maybe next weekend or the next to get busy. It was 102 today but it is supposed to moderate.

I have 3 baskets of tomatoes to figure out something to do with still. THey just keep coming.

Busy busy busy.

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Beets, lettuce, daikon, chard in a pot to take in latter, turnips. Had hoped not to have to do much fall gardening, but the one beet row didn't do much and the daikon wasn't white (black) and turnips 1/2 bolted of the early crop. Lettuce and chard will go into small greenhouse in pots as experiment.

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I finally got off my rump, not really I had so much other stuff going on in the garden. But I pulled most of my potatoes, they were a bust. :x Than got some peas and more beans going, fingers crossed on the beans. Oh yeah I pulled all my first planted beans as well, another bust. I also put in Brussels Sprouts I started a way's back, I will try to get some lettuce and spinach going we shall see about time and space though.

We are in the shirking garden stage. Things are coming out but than again other things are going in. It won't be long and most everything will be gone except for garlic.

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Planted my garlic today for harvest next May or June. I've replanted my summer squash and cucumbers for fall harvest. They germinate okay, but then look at the thermometer which has said 110 for a long time. They then lay over and die. I've planted the cukes three times and each time I just hope for some cooler weather when they germinate. I also have both growing under lights for planting out when it is cool enough. My tomato plants are just hanging on waiting for cooler weather. Most of them put on some small tomatoes in July, but they have stopped growing and just shrivel up in the heat. I have my beds and seed ready to plant some varieties of lettuce, but it would be a waste of time to plant it right now. Maybe early September will be better for lettuce. The nice thing about lettuce is you can harvest it until the first hard freeze arrives. The head lettuce like Romaine will get burned by the cold weather, but not killed. When spring arrives, it will start growing new heads for a spring harvest. I get a much better spring crop of head lettuce by planting in the fall and letting it freeze. I guess the roots are already established when it warms enough to grow in the spring. My carrots were so lousy this summer, I haven't decided if I will plant any this fall for a spring crop. The extremely hot weather caused all my carrots to become balls of hair roots with tiny carrots at the center instead of full sized carrots.

It should be an interesting fall garden if fall ever arrives.

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Just planted another round of spinach and a few more broccoli plants. In my area, this is being hopeful that summer will stick around for awhile longer! I know it's a little late, but my fingers are crossed that the frost will hold off long enough for the broccoli. The spinach shouldn't be a problem, but I've never done any late summer planting so we'll see.

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Is it too late for corn in zone 10? I've heard it's intensive, but Lowes has little plants going - figured in my five gal buckets I could use them for fall peas ...

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Well, I just got some free space in the garden about a week or so ago. However, first frost for me is usually around mid-October, so I think it's probably too late for a fall garden crop. However, I pick up some radish seeds for a dollar and give it a try just for the fun of it.

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I bought sweet onion seeds and I'm planning to plant them at the end of this month, I've also got strawberry seeds that I extracted from strawberries myself, I'm quite excited to see them grow.

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I recently set out 35 Brassica plants. Most of them are cauliflower, but I also have broccoli, cabbage, and mustard. Hopefully, many of them will live to maturity, but grasshoppers are eating a few of them.

I need to sow seeds for carrots, onions, and kohlrabi soon as well.

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They are very mild, I have a picture but haven't figured out how to upload pics yet. They are very prolific. Smaller than a Anaheim I think.

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LaDonna wrote:They are very mild, I have a picture but haven't figured out how to upload pics yet. They are very prolific. Smaller than a Anaheim I think.
Go to imageshack.com and simply click upload and browse for the image.
I find imageshack the bets site because it doesnt remove your images like photobucket oro ther sites.

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Radish, beets, carrots, lettuce, kale, garlic, green onions, black cherry tomato, cilantro, parsely.


Still got some serrano, red bell, and green bell growing. Some basil is still growing. I also planted some flower and herb seeds to get a head start for next year.



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