Fall vegetable gardens

[Old Arkansawyer]

My fall garden is looking pretty good. I have planted and
growing 2 kinds of lettuce, carrots, kale, beets, green beans.
green onions. I am waiting for a little cooler weather to plant
in the green house with another round of beans, beets, carrots
kale, cabbage, lettuce, onions and tomatoes and radishes.
My summer garden is still producing peppers, cucumbers, 3
kinds of squash. But my tomatoes are just setting with green
tomatoes that have stopped ripening???? Okra is to the point
of picking every day, also still getting a few pole beans and they
are still blooming.
How many of you plant fall gardens?

 

[Bugkiller99]

Been preparing my raised beds. Fall is THE growing season here. Though I have had success with okra in the summer. Hope to have a mess of them tomorrow. Otherwise, it's too hot in the summer for most anything else.

Just starting to put in tomatoes. Will put down a row every two weeks next month. Pole beans, carrots, towards the end of next month. Peppers going in soon.

Truly nothing tastes better than fresh from the garden vegetable!

 

[spricks]

Really a short growing season here. The window before first frost is a big deal, as well as the the sunshine arc causing less than stellar growing conditions. But I do have a second planting of spinach and radish looking good. We live off our gardens and can 100's of jars of everything from kraut to salsa and everything useful for the year.....gotta love the harvest after all the work!

spricks

 

[Jessie]

Haven't really tried a fall garden. By about this time I've used most of my canning jars and a lot of my energy tending the summer garden.
I usually clean things up in the fall and put it to bed till next spring when I'm all re-energized again and running out of last years canned stuff.

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

Haven't really tried a fall garden. By about this time I've used most of my canning jars and a lot of my energy tending the summer garden.
I usually clean things up in the fall and put it to bed till next spring when I'm all re-energized again and running out of last years canned stuff.

I hear you. My folks raised about an acre garden and after we
weeded, hoed and harvested fall was welcome. My dad always
planted turnips and I like them but am the only one around my
house who will eat them. So I have just quit planting them in
the fall. About all my fall, winter garden is low maintenance.
You might try some vegetables like greens or lettuces to get
some fresh from the garden.

 

[Mule Packer]

We have a real short growing season up here. The rule of thumb is to plant our gardens after Mother's Day or "when the snow melts off the Hogsback," a local mountain in our valley. As a result, many times gardens don't get planted until after Memorial Day or even D-Day. We're in Zone 4, and sometimes it's even Zone 3.

Our corn is just starting to come on. We've already harvested lettuce, have canned the beets, and will be canning beans and corn this week. Tomatoes haven't really started to ripen yet, although we have a good crop on the vines so far. Have finished harvesting asparagus and have been enjoying squash for a few weeks.

Hopefully we'll get some tomatoes before the first frost. We lucked out last year and Ms. Judy was able to bottle several quarts of tomatoes, tomato sauce, and chili sauce. Of course, last year we got the garden in right after Mother's Day because the snow had melted off the Hogsback by then. This year, we still had snow up there on the first of June so I didn't get the garden in until June 6th. So, I guess we'll see what happens.

We have a good plum and apple crop coming on, so, if all goes well, I'll be drying plums and apples, along with squeezing apples into cider later on this fall. Squeezed 31 gallons last year. Don't think we'll get that many this year, so I guess we'll see.

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

Mule Packer, did you not say your son had a greenhouse? If not, look
into what is known as a Chinese greenhouse, or passive solar greenhouse.
That is the style I have as it only has glass on the south facing side and
about 1/3 way on the east and west sides. Heavy insulation on the other
walls. Of course I am in zone 7, quite different than zone 4. But this style works in parts of Canada. What is your elevation and latitude?

 

[Mule Packer]

Mule Packer, did you not say your son had a greenhouse? If not, look
into what is known as a Chinese greenhouse, or passive solar greenhouse.
That is the style I have as it only has glass on the south facing side and about 1/3 way on the east and west sides. Heavy insulation on the other walls. Of course I am in zone 7, quite different than zone 4. But this style works in parts of Canada. What is your elevation and latitude?

Yep. Oldest son has a greenhouse and starts tomatoes and squash for me every year. Our elevation is 4,500 feet and our Latitude: 41° 42' 18.59" N.

I'll have to check out Chinese greenhouses.

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

Yep. Oldest son has a greenhouse and starts tomatoes and squash for me every year. Our elevation is 4,500 feet and our Latitude: 41° 42' 18.59" N.

I'll have to check out Chinese greenhouses.

I am at 35.57 N and just short of 1,000ft elevation. You would
need to orient your glass/plastic at an angle of 51 degrees plus
account for elevation, there is a formula for that but I'm not
sure what it is.
I used double pane glass for my greenhouse just because I
scored some 4ftx5.5ft free windows. Otherwise I would have
used clear roofing plastic. Good luck if you build.

 

[Bugkiller99]

I'm now harvesting egg plant, kale, lettuce, two kinds of green beans, peppers. If I can keep the $#$%#$% birds away, I'll have tomatoes any day.

 

[Peak53]

I'm jealous My garden is growing snowflakes, about 14" worth. About minus 10° this morning. Nothing better than growin' your own! Just not here. Enjoy!

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

When I was really into gardening I was washed up by about mid September/October. As all of you know about the hard work. This year was my first "container" tomatoes, and we had tomato sandwiches from mid June until about mid November. I never get tired of them.

Have a blessed day,

Leon