Fall Garden 2014 on the Brain

[applestar]

How are your Fall gardens coming along?

I sowed some peas yesterday -- it's probably too late, but I cleared the last of the cuke and melon vines and wanted to sow something that would use the trellis. I sowed red orach along the edge.
I also sowed some Gigante spinach and planted the dime-nickel sized intermediate onion bulbs that didn't bulb up well at summer harvest. Rather than frustrating myself trying to peel them and use them or letting them dry up in storage, I thought I'll see if they will grow into green onions before frost/freeze kills them.

I cleared two more spots today and sowed some lettuce/salad mix and transplanted golden beet seedlings, and sowed kale/kohlrabi mix in the 2nd area.

Also sowed some cabbage and tatsoi seeds under the protective tunnel used for squash during the summer. I decided to just keep using this tunnel and put a plastic sheeting over the spun bonded fabric later on and see how long they can keep going. I sowed some other seeds here before and some of those seem to have come up. I've been lax about keeping records, so whatever grows will be more of a happy surprise.

also cleared the remaining lettuce with seed heads from the patio windowbox and sowed some lettuce mix, arugula and Egyptian onion topsets.

Spinach, carrot, Swiss chard, lettuce, and radish mix I sowed at the end of August are up and growing true leaves.

[rainbowgardener]

A little late, but in the past week, I have planted (in the ground) seeds for spinach, kale, broccoli, a couple kinds of lettuces, and onions. In October I will plant garlic and some more broccoli and spinach for over wintering.

[catgrass]

This past weekend I planted spinach and lettuce in those long window box type planters. Got radish in the ground. Have broccoli plants to put in the ground, but it isn't prepped yet. Have sugar snaps soaking and ready to plant, too. This weekend I'll buy some cabbage plants at the Ag Center Fall sale and I'll be good for the fall/winter season, except for my fall flower planting.

[lakngulf]

I have several summer crops going strong into our early Fall: Peppers, eggplant, some tomatoes and a replanting of okra and rattlesnake beans. Also, I have planted some mustard greens and Georgia collards.

Each year at my hunting land I plant 10 lbs of purple top turnips for the deer. They are in the ground (or rather "on the ground") and got some rain on Monday. Always difficult to plan them thin enough for the roots to form.

[applestar]

Having grown through the summer, Swiss chard, leeks, kale and celery are loving the cooler weather and growing fresh tender leaves and fat thick stalks. Pulling carrots as needed. Cutting down finished plants to let the roots die and break down.

I've been sowing seeds as space opens up -- lettuce, peas, spinach, beets, radish, daikon, carrots, parsnips, Swiss chard, broccoli, kohlrabi, and onions. Multiple varieties of each with at lease one variety for each crop like Walla Walla onion that are supposed to be good for fall sowing and possibly wintering over, though I might have been a little late. I'm hoping to compensate by putting up low and high tunnels to extend the fall season if I can.