Fall Garden Is Coming Along

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I've done a fall garden off-and-on, but the last few years I've really been concentrating on it. After a summer like this, it's nice to see green things going again. I've got some flats of lettuce and cabbage I started several weeks back going in the ground. Carrots, bush beans, beets coming along. A bunch of radishes started, and I'll do another succession planting or two. Garlic is in. I plan to keep lettuce, cabbage and radishes going under hoops in one bed after it's cold.

Anybody out there do any fall gardening, and if you do, what?

[jdmidwest]

I still have maters and picked my first pieces of Okra last week, then it was flattened by the windstorm last Fri. Squash looks good but not producing anything but blooms. Lettuce and radish coming along. Green beans are putting on and green peas are about 4 in hi. Getting some peppers still.

I tilled a patch up in the back yard and planted alfalfa for the bees last weekend and it has come up nice. Mustard and clover in the parts of the garden that is not planted.

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My summer stuff that's left isn't doing a whole lot. Maters are putting on some fruit, but they're probably never gonna ripen. My Anaheims and anchos have been a bust, but the bananas have had a great year.

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Parts of my veggie garden are still plugging along under the hoops. Ended up doing two beds that way (plastic over 1/2" bent pvc), and laid my cold frame over a third bed. Still getting lettuce, radishes, beets (too many), and carrots. Started spinach too late. Cabbages are getting some decent size, but about half of them are pretty eaten up by cabbage worms. Biggest problem is getting out there to water since it's dark when I leave and when I come home from work. I haven't been out there to see what these temps in the teens have done to things in the last few days.

This has been a lot of fun extending the year like this. Fresh veggies in December is a new one for me. The natural thing to do now is get stuff outside earlier next spring.

[jdmidwest]

I picked a few strawberries last week. The dry weather made them go dormant, the rains brought them back out and they started blooming some. Bugs had eat on them.

I still have lettuce, radishes, and mustard. Turnips did not do much. Snow peas are blooming but not setting pods. Dill finally came up in Oct and is about knee high now.

The bees were still finding some orange pollen last week, somewhere.

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I still have lettuce, radishes, and mustard. Turnips did not do much. Snow peas are blooming but not setting pods. Dill finally came up in Oct and is about knee high now.

The bees were still finding some orange pollen last week, somewhere.

Talk to me about the snow peas. One of our favorites, but I didn't even try thinking inside the hoops only gave me room for low stuff.

[jdmidwest]

What's left is winter hardy for the most part. We have had several frosts, but my stuff is still going uncovered. Of course, I am a few clicks south.

The Alaska Snow Peas are growing along the fence I put up around the green beans. They are little over knee high. In spring, they grow taller. I like them in stir fry and salads, very sweet.