I've been away from my garden for the past 2 weeks. The whole family has been on a long overdue, extended tour of the Pacific Northwest visiting relatives/inlaws/friends. I've managed to appease the gardening fiend by taking pictures of plants, stealing seeds from friends' gardens, and logging on to DG. (Thank heavens for the internet.) Still have 5 more days to go before I'll be back home and I'm just dying to do some planting and gardening as soon as I get back. What kind of vegetable seeds could I start planting around August 12th or so? Suggestions for flowers are also welcomed.
I really should have openned this post with "Hi, my name is Quyen and I'm a gardening addict." LOL
Fall veggies?
cucumbers (muuuuuuuuuuuummmmm) homemade pickles for the holidays. Tomatoes any variety with the right care. Lettuce.
good luck
broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, peas, still time for bush beans, radishes
RAdishes? Great idea how in the great world could I have forgotten those little red devils. Got to have them. hehe
Lettuce? I was going to give up on lettuce till next spring.
Lettuce? sow now in the house and plant in the cooler part of the month of Oct. At least I think in CA it starts cooling off then. A harvest can be achieved before winter sets in.
" Nice crispy lettuce"
calvin
Alrighty! I am home! Have watered the kiddies, tisked about a few brown tomato plants, clucked over the harvest, and marveled about the recovery of one pepper plant that I sprayed before leaving. Now I'm ready for some serious planting and sowing.
Thank you for all the suggestions, folks. I sowed a few Black Krim and First Lady II seeds. I will definitely try the lettuce, radishes, and cukes. I'll also sow the rest of the bush beans that I have b'c I don't think they'll be good next spring. I've not had good luck with broccoli and cauliflowers...a bit too slow growing for my impatient style of gardening :-p
I don't know about CA, but here we get our first frost around mid-September. I know lettuce is a cool weather plant, but winter weather??
Just finished up planting my Fall veggies on Sunday. Planted Simpson lettuce, Flame lettuce, India Mustard greens, Tendergreen Mustard greens, Beets, Ital. Broccoli diRapa, and 2 varieties of Chinese BokChoy.
Also have a Kimberly tomato plant about to start producing as a late planting since I didn't have room for it until I took out a Campbell 1327 determinant that had "done it's do". Love the cooler days & nites of Fall.....
LarryD
Hi everyone...I thought this thread would be the perfect place to introduce myself because I'm new to your veggie forum...I'll start planting my fall garden in about 3-4 weeks & I can't wait. It's so nice to see so many other vegetable garden enthusiasts!! I look forward to sharing with you all....~Kim
welcome aboard. I'm fairly new to DG myself.
At the moment I'm looking at the seed packets and looking at the starter flats and wondering how to plant more seeds than I have space! LOL. Gets me every year.
I have a hard time taking down the summer vegie plants when they are still producing.
My DH says Oct 1 the winter vegies are going in. I'll try to be brave.
gothic garden & garden_mermaid...... WELCOME to the DG family!! Lotsa nice folks here and only ONE ol' sorehead who has popped up ocassionally, but not recently. There are many who love to talk garden and ask & answer questions. Join the fun!!
LarryD
Thanks Larry. I've enjoyed the garden talk and learned lots of interesting and helpful things. My husband wants to know if I'm developing an addiction. LOL!
If a sorehead pops up, I'll suggest herbal remedies for him/her to try. *wink*
Hi, LarryD: I thought it was still too hot for the lettuce in our area. Do you use a shade cloth on the lettuce or not? Thanks
~Kimberly
kimberly..... good to hear from a fellow DG'er...just up the road (RT. 422) a piece from me!! No, I don't find it necessary to use a shadecloth on my Fall veggies. Have discovered over the past 30 years of gardening in this neck of the woods that lettuce, mustard...in fact, any greens... will do quite well since they will be growing into the shorter daylight hours & somewhat cooler temperatures of late summer to early Fall in this locale.
Good luck!! Great to hear from you!!
LarryD
Howdy Larry, and others...
I just finished digging the last of the taters today. Before the day was over I sowed a 100ft row of "brown-eye 6 week peas" and another row of "pinkeye purple hulls".
Will broadcast a mixture of kale, turnips/turnip salad, mustard on Sunday for our Fall/Winter greens. (Soon after that the transplants will go in, e.g., brocolli, collards, maybe Brussels sprouts.)
Won't plant anything else until November after all that is done (except for cover/green manure crops).
Shoe.
SHOE.... yummmm...... blackeyed peas & greens with a chunk of cornbread to soak up the "pot likker" . My kind o' food......good for body & soul in the waning days of Fall...
In TX back in the 50s, my Mom & Dad always planted Cream Crowder peas.
Ever hear of them??
LarryD
I am getting ready to haul everything out of the veggie garden and wait for the winter to come and go. Any suggestions for a winter cover I can till in to the ground for a spring crop?
calvin
nivlac...... How about Winter Rye???
LarryD
I thought about that but was wandering if there was others. I have very rich raised bed soil and I do not want to raise one level of any 1 ingrediant higher than another and then hav to add more in the spring to conpensate.
How does winter rye affect ph, and mineral content and such?
calvin
Cannot imagine you'd have anything to worry about but if your raised beds are in such good shape you might not want to upset the balance you have.
LD
Cream crowder peas, eh, Larry? Yep, I've grown 'crowder peas' but not sure if they were "cream" crowder peas. And I bet your Mom's were delish!! And yes on the blackeye peas/greens and cornbread! Yummy!
Calvin, I grow Crimson Clover as a cover crop/green manure crop (except this year I'll probably also grow oats in certain areas). The clover is nice 'cause it stays green most Winters, really protects the soil from heaving, and when it blooms not only is it pretty but it really brings in the pollinators.
And now, early morning so heading off to mkt.
Happy Day to All.
Shoe.
I have a flat of mixed cabbage, broccoli and lettuce ready to set out. I just need to clear up a space and get them in the ground. I also plan to sow some mixed lettuce and spinach, any day now. With the help of row cover, I will be able to harvest through Christmas, unless we have drastically unusual weather. Also going to put something in my Garden's Supply "Earth Boxes" on the deck.