Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Summer Garden Notes, September 8, 2015

The fall garden is starting to take shape -- I've started putting out the seedlings that I've been starting in the greenhouse.  So far this week I've planted out:
  1. Swiss Chards (a few of several types: 5 Color Silverbeet, Fordhook Giant, and Luculus)
  2. Kales (again, a few of several types: Premier, Blue Curled Scotch, Scarlet, and Dwarf Siberian)



On Sunday, we direct seeded the green beans, a few rows of Blue Lake and Calima.  They should have plenty of time to produce before we get a frost around these parts.

Tomorrow I'm putting out the collard and bak choy seedlings.  A few more days and everything else should be out in the soil.  We're doing only a few rows each day, and John is setting up the auto-water for me as I go.  Early morning is still the only time to be out in the heat.

I have a real hard time getting germination with my spinach seeds.  I've started germinating the seeds before planting them between paper towels in the house, and then carefully planting them in flats once they've started showing some root.  It seems to work best for me.  These will probably be the last things I put out since they are just now getting started.


Kind of excited about these tiny celery plants -- this will be a new plant for me and there are six of these little babies.  Here's hoping they survive!

I finally am starting to see a few blooms on the morning glories!! Yea!  I did feed the plants with a bloom feed as a reader suggested and it seems to be working.  Hope to see more of these beauties soon as we are expecting some more temperate weather in the next week or so.  They are even teasing us with some rain later this week...we won't hold our breath.

The spring and summer garden is done, and we had a wonderful and productive year.  John's additions to the garden (the shade cloth, the automatic water systems and all of his muscle with preparing the beds) have really kicked our garden into high gear.  I'm hoping that the fall garden will be as successful.  Here is the final tally for Spring/Summer 2015:

Spring/Summer 2015 Garden     Pounds              Ounces
All Type  Beans, Green 11 8 4
DeCicco Broccoli 4 4 6
Early Flat Dutch Cabbage 3 2 8
Red Acre Cabbage 1 13 9
All Orange Carrots 3 0 7
Cosmic Purple Carrots 2 2 9
Green Macerata Cauliflower 0 13 8
Holstein Cowpeas 0 9 2
Blue Goose Cowpeas 1 9 1
Shanty Pea Cowpeas 0 9 4
Gray Speckled Palapye Cowpeas 0 14 7
Holland White Cucumber 3 5 4
Ashley Cucumber 32 11 7
Salad Blend Siamese Dragon Stir Fry Mix Greens 0 2 3
Scarlet Kale 0 10 7
Dwarf Siberian Kale 1 15 9
Lacinato Kale 0 0 8
Batavian Crisphead Lettuce 2 7 4
Red Romaine (3) Lettuce 0 13 4
Beck's Big Buck Okra 3 1 5
Silver Queen Okra 4 8 9
Stewart's Zeebest Okra 3 14 8
Extra Dwarf (2) Pak Choy 3 14 5
Jalapeno Pepper 7 15 0
Ancho Pepper 2 5 5
Green Pepper 2 15 8
Pumpkin (volunteer) Pumpkin 4 0 3
Mammoth Melting Sugar Snowpeas 2 8 3
Giant Noble Spinach 0 13 2
Amsterdam Prickly Seeded Spinach 0 2 3
Malabar Green Spinach 0 0 7
Golden Zucchini Squash, Summer 1 8 0
Fordhook Zucchini Squash, Summer 4 3 6
Tromboncino Squash, Summer 1 2 8
Yellow Butter Dish Squash, Summer 9 7 7
Lebanese White Bush Marrow Squash, Summer 5 0 2
Kikuza Squash, Winter 0 14 4
Butternut Rogosa Violina Gioia Squash, Winter 3 11 2
Table Dainty Squash,  Summer 21 2 9
Table Dainty Squash, Winter 16 3 7
Spaghetti Squash Squash, Winter 8 15 7
Honey Boat Delicata Squash, Winter 3 0 8
Hot Pink Swiss Chard 1 7 3
Green Husk Tomatillo 7 7 1
Beefsteak Tomato 12 4 9
Black Cherry (volunteer) Tomato 0 5 2
Cherry, Yellow Tomato 6 14 1
Cherokee Purple Tomato 9 1 5
Snow White Tomato 8 4 7
Homestead Tomato 14 15 6
Great White Tomato 5 5 9
Juane Flammee' Tomato 6 4 3
Red Star Tomato 10 5 3
Sleeping Lady (2) Tomato 15 12 2
         
  Grand Total 282 6 4


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