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