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Working in the garden today I was able to harvest onions, celery, pole beans, beets, a couple of bell peppers, and a few tomatoes. Not a total loss. The yard needs mowing and there is lots of weeding to do. It is a nice day today a little warm and humid but that's life.
 
Is this a good time to plant Swiss Chard in the Fall, it is my first time.
"The best time for Swiss chard fall planting is July 15 through August 15. The exact time will depend on your zone. Areas that expect early freezes should plant earlier and use a hoop house to give the developing plants some shade and keep them from bolting"
 
joel said:
Is this a good time to plant Swiss Chard in the Fall, it is my first time.
"The best time for Swiss chard fall planting is July 15 through August 15. The exact time will depend on your zone. Areas that expect early freezes should plant earlier and use a hoop house to give the developing plants some shade and keep them from bolting"
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At least here, you only have to plant chard once - let 1 go to seed and you'll have plenty ever after.
Bacpacker said:
I picked a 5 gallon bucket of cukes and maters. Another gallon of taters.
Those tomatos are so tasty
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We are way behind you - looking forward to cukes and toms.
 
Put in my "replacement" potatoes today. Also set up the sprinkler for when I go to the cabin. One of the tenants in the building will be taking care of it while I'm away. It's a win-win for both of us. I get someone who will water everything and keep an eye on the property so I don't worry while at the cabin and they get a fenced yard to run their dog and harvest anything that is ready. I'll bring home some veg from the amish farm or maybe some wine for them.

We have three rain barrels and have decided to add another two. They'll be connected to one over in dad's yard and the other will be connected to the one in the fenced garden area.
 
LadyLocust said:
At least here, you only have to plant chard once - let 1 go to seed and you'll have plenty ever after.
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I have the Rainbow mix, wonder if it will come back true.
 
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Oh poor me & poor Hubby~ I had just mentioned that the extra tomatoes I had planted out back of the sitting area were looking nicer than some in the tomato patch. Hubby got the torch to take care of some weeds and torched 3 of the 4 extra tomatoes - he "forgot" they were there. He likes torching. Oy! One is totally gone, two I will hold little hope for - we'll see.
 
joel said:
I have the Rainbow mix, wonder if t will come back true.
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I've had different ones over the years. They are all easy to grow. I also like to dehydrate some and crumble them into soups and other dishes in winter for extra greens in winter meals.
 
Tommyice said:
I'm jealous. I hate the heat it's still in the upper 70's at night and my apartment is like a kiln.
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friday morning at 6a.m. the day started at 75f...and so humid you wouldnt believe it ! i felt it too !


edit..its been 90ish and hot and dry for awhile too.
 
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Yesterday I worked in the garden till after dark, I got the last of my raised beds prepped and hooked up the irrigation lines around it. Only have to install emitters and put in plants and it will be good to go. This bed has been out of service for 3 years, partly because it is very close to the house and partly it was a home to building materials during the remodel of the kitchen in 2020. I had actually prepared the bed for planting back then, amended the soil and was just getting ready to add irrigation and plant when the kitchen remodel was sprung upon me. The only thing I could do was cover the whole bed with black plastic, put 2X10 cross supports across the top and then it started keeping lumber off the ground while we did the build.... I was pleased not to find any weeds or bugs when I removed the plastic yesterday, the soil had compressed about 2" from when the black plastic was full of water, but other than that it is good to go. I am thinking it will be a good lettuce bed once I get some insect netting over the top of it. It does not get good sun in winter so it will be a summertime only box.
 
I managed to get the last of my okra planted, then I decided to direct sow some spinach, beets, and green onions seeds in my last raised bed. There was just enough room in there to add a yellow squash plant that I didn't know what to do with. This bed is shaded most of the day and I put the spinach in the most shaded part hoping that it will avoid bolting.

The small salad tomatoes are now producing about 2 a day, but there are lots more showing now. The San Marzanos are clumped like big grapes, almost the size of small pears, I am trying to figure out how to support the plants with such a heavy load... The heat now is really hard on the plants, if I miss even 1 day of watering they look like they are going to die...

The wife keeps telling me about her fathers' garden back in OHIO, She tells me how big it was and how his tomato patch was bigger than our whole yard... And then she tells me he didn't grow this or that.... It sort of wares me out....

Sorry, got distracted had to break away to pull some carrots, onions, basil, oregano, bay leaves, and parsley... We're having some Lasagna, we make it in 8X8" pans, we will get 3 pans, eat one, and freeze 2.. ;)
 
Got some pics of my plants, since I'm home and have no motivation.

At the front I have green peppers (raised by my SIL). There's more on other side, 10 plants in all.
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Pepperoncini I got at flea market
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Potatoes (first time growing them)
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Then my front raised bed, tomatoes and marigolds around the perimeter.
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Back bed is eggplants
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And cukes I train up the trellis I made from an old ladder that belonged to DH's grandfather and was no longer safe.
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And lastly along my side yard, raspberries and rhubarb.
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Harvest a bunch of cukes and maters. Wife got several serrano peppers. Also got another couple gallons of taters, from 3 hills. Some of these yukon golds areas big as a decent size kennebac. Also picked a few more blueberries. I'm down to 2 plants to go, they'll be done soon.

My berry cuttings I took last year didn't make it. I think I waited too late in the year and got shoots that had hardened too much. I'm gonna take a couple stems that are younger and more flexible this weekend and try yo get them rooted.

I also have a tomato cutting in water and it has rooted in just a few days. I'll put it in a big pot and put it in the kitchen window to try and have some thru the winter
 
This morning I woke up early to do some work in my growing station and made a few discoveries:
I had 1 starter cup of bib lettuce that needed to be transplanted into individual cups, 19 individual cups...
I had 2 starter cups of squash that didn't come up so I replanted them adding new soil...
I had a starter cup of Roma Tomatoes that I didn't need and decided to pull them out and plant some cherry tomatoes... seems I'm ahead of myself, the starter cup was cherry tomatoes so I transplanted the 6 best and threw out the half dozen of so weaker plants.

I am watching my little indoor tomato plants (Siam?) like a hawk, they are loaded with nice size fruit that are great in salads, but the seeds are almost impossible to find and they cost like $1/seed, so I have decided to let 1 fruit from each plant stay on the plant till they fall off on their own and I will collect seeds those in hopes of having between 4 and 6 of these plants for my winter garden, well that's the plan.
 
Bacpacker said:
I also have a tomato cutting in water and it has rooted in just a few days. I'll put it in a big pot and put it in the kitchen window to try and have some thru the winter
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How do you do the tomato cuttings? I have never done that but it might be worth a try on these hard to find plants....
 
joel said:
Is this a good time to plant Swiss Chard in the Fall, it is my first time.
"The best time for Swiss chard fall planting is July 15 through August 15. The exact time will depend on your zone. Areas that expect early freezes should plant earlier and use a hoop house to give the developing plants some shade and keep them from bolting"
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I have seedlings in the polytunnel- I was going to put them out but the slugs are chronic this year. They aren't in shade though. This is my first time growing from seed. I'd be in your 7-9 zone, looking at the temps. I guess it depends where you are, and if you can cover them.
 
Magpie said:
I have seedlings in the polytunnel- I was going to put them out but the slugs are chronic this year. They aren't in shade though. This is my first time growing from seed. I'd be in your 7-9 zone, looking at the temps. I guess it depends where you are, and if you can cover them.
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Have you tried beer traps for your slugs? Just take a plastic cup (or old tin), wipe the inside with cooking oil (so they can't climb out) and bury it in your garden to almost even with the soil, pour in a shot of Beer, you can cover it with a plastic bowl to keep rain out of the trap, just don't seal it so much that the slugs can't get in... It helps, I have an ongoing war with those critters. ;)
 
hashbrown said:
Jake and I hauled an awfully nice plant out of the grow room to the chickens. Turned out it was a male, I bought feminized seeds but that’s not a 100%. A hell of a lot of time an energy for chicken food!

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Lets hope you got it early enough!

Thought

Take cutting from the other plants and clone them under 24 hr light to force them into vegetative state. If the other females got pollinated you will have backups started AND if others go hermaphroditic you will know which cutting to keep.

Just a thought

Ben
 
Neb said:
Lets hope you got it early enough!

Thought

Take cutting from the other plants and clone them under 24 hr light to force them into vegetative state. If the other females got pollinated you will have backups started AND if others go hermaphroditic you will know which cutting to keep.

Just a thought

Ben
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I’m going to finish the other plants I have going I have 2 budding at the moment and grow auto flowers for the fall and winter. I’ll start some photos early next spring.
 
UrbanHunter said:
How do you do the tomato cuttings? I have never done that but it might be worth a try on these hard to find plants....
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I just cut a limb of one of my plants, cut off the lower leaves, and stick it in water for a few days. This one rooted in less than a week.
If you want you could dip the stem in rooting hormone. When you plant if, bury it up to the lowest leaves left. The entire stem will root.
 
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