Fall/Winter Garden 2019 - September 29 Two more garden beds done!

I've been working non-stop the past two days to get more of the fall/winter garden in. I've finished Bed C2 with kales, beets and some more onions/garlic. 

If it looks like I'm packing it in in these beds, that's because I am. I don't want to give weeds a chance to see daylight! Also, this may sound like a lot of kale, but there's only one foot of each variety. I have so many and I love kale, so why not!

Bed C2:

• Garlic - Bought at local farm stand, just one bulb's worth
• Troncuda Kale - Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
• Red Ursa Kale - Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
• Bear Necessitities Kale - Adaptive Seeds
• Casper Kale - Facebook Garden Group
• Yod Fah Kale - Facebook Garden Group
• Siberian Kale - The Seed Guy
• Russian Frills Kale - Adaptive Seeds
• Westlandse Kale - Facebook Garden Group
• Yaponskaya Rusalochka Kale - Nikitovka Seeds
• Red Russian Kale - Seedsnow.com
• Dazzling Blue/Curly Roja - Facebook Garden Group
• Thousandhead Kale - Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
• Badger Flame Beets - Row 7 Seeds
• Detroit Dark Red Beets - The Seed Guy
• Chioggia Beets - Seedsnow.com
• Fuer Kugel Beets - Facebook Garden Group
• Avalanche Beets - Facebook Garden Group
• Mixed Beets - Some of the leftover seeds I had
• Golden Beets - Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
• Sweet Spanish Onions - The Seed Guy
• Veselka Onions - Nikitovka Seeds
• Red Welsh Onions - Farmacie Isolde

Today I planted Bed C3:

Hong Tai Pak Choy - Facebook Garden Group
Yellow Heart Choy - Facebook Garden Group
Extra Dwarf Pak Choy - saved seeds
Ching Chang Bok Choy - Facebook Garden Group
Shanghai Choy - Facebook Garden Group
Red Venture Celery - Trade Winds Fruit
Tendercrisp Celery - Facebook Garden Group
Red Mountain Celtuce - Facebook Garden Group
Verona Red Chicory - Seedsnow.com
Rhubarb Swiss Chard - Burpee
Kohlrabi, Early White Vienna - Facebook Garden Group
Carrots, Red Rose - Nikitovka Seeds
Carrots, Dances on Fire - Nikitovka Seeds
Carrots, Shin Karoda - Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Carrots, Krasnyv Velkan - Nikitovka Seeds
Blushing Bunching Onion - Burpee

Only one more bed, C4, to do later this coming week. Tomorrow I plan to finish the Squash House. The peas are already coming up!

Fall/Winter Garden 2019 - September 27 One bed down, three to go!

Well, I finished putting in the C1 yesterday. The heat is still just brutal. I can only be out there for about an hour at a time.  

I finished planting all of the spinach:

• Zimny Gigante - Nikitovka Seeds
• Pinetree Spinach Mix - Pinetree Seeds
• Red Kitten (F1) - Johnny's Select Seeds

At the end of the bed I finished up with some shallot/onions:

• Cuisse de Poulet (a pink torpedo shape) - Farmacie Isolde
• Tropeana Lunga - my Facebook Seed group

A few of the peas are already starting to show up!

The second bed is filled (thanks to John!) and ready to go - I'll be planting it on Saturday!

Fall/Winter Garden 2019 - September 24 Finally Started!

I've officially planted out for the first time -- that felt so good to get started! John's been working on the new raised beds in Garden C for me. 

We had to basically do a restart in that bed since it's the one that drowned in the Spring and weeds just took over. There will be three 3'x8' beds and one 3'x10' bed there. 

While he's been doing that, I've reworked the soil (adding new soil and my mix of bat guano, worm castings and azomite rock dust) in the Squash house and started planting the fall peas:

• Oregon Sugar Pod - Seedsnow.com
• Sugar Snap Peas - Seedsnow.com
• Sugaree Sugar Snap Pea - Adaptive Seeds

I'm hoping I'm not too early with these peas since its still so hot, but there is shade on the squash house, so hopefully they won't suffer.

I planted a few greens along the outside of the larger beds in front of the peas:

• French Corn Salad - Seedsnow.com
• Dutch Corn Salad - Seedsnow.com
• Jefferson's Corn Salad - Monticello Gardens
• Green Curled Endive - Seedsnow.com
• Catalogna Punterella Dandelion Radicchio - Face Book group

It was very hot and humid today, so only got 1/2 of the first bed done, and one side of the Squash house.  More tomorrow. Trying to beat the heat by going out early and again late in the day, but it's still been unbearable. 

Spinach planted today in bed C1:

• Galilee Spinach - Baker Creek Seeds
• Bloomsdale - The Seed Guy
• Merlot Nero - Baker Creek Seeds

I have my little cole plants under the shade of the peach tree right now, and they seem to be happy there. They're putting on their second (and third) leaves and hopefully will be ready to plant out next month. I'll be giving them a dose of HastaGrow this week to keep them happy.

And finally, I started about 24 cells of various herbs last week and they're starting to break through.  I have them on the side porch, and will be transplanting them, as they show up, into larger cups soon! Most likely these will be in the greenhouse all winter.

More garden progress tomorrow!

Fall/Winter Garden - September 1, 2019

Today was an exciting day, I started some of the seedlings for the fall garden!

Cauliflower, Amazing - Baker Creek 

Cauliflower, Candid Charm (F1) - Territorial Seeds

Cauliflower, Green Macerata - Baker Creek

Cabbage, Chiriman Hakusai - garden group 

Cabbage, Pai Tsai - garden group

Cabbage, Red Dragon (F1) - garden group 

Cabbage, Cour Di Bue - garden group

Cabbage, Golden Acres - garden group

Cabbage, Copenhagen Market - garden group

Broccoli, Raab - garden group

Broccoli, Calabrese - The Seed Guy

Choy Sum, Purple - garden group

Cauliflower, Snowball - The Seed Guy

These trays are inside now, it's just too hot in the greenhouse right now. Once they sprout, I'll put out in the potting garden in the shade and they should be fine! Looking forward to putting in the fall garden in a few weeks!

End of the Spring/Summer Garden

Not the most productive garden I've ever had, but considering the over-abundance of rain in the early spring, John's multiple trips to the hospital, and the under-abundance of rain in the summer, I was lucky to get anything! My biggest regret is letting the weeds take over, it's been hard to wrangle the garden back from them.

We had a terrible fruit year - the peaches were barely there. Very few mulberries and elderberries. A fairly nice blackberry year, though, it was a bright spot!

Tomatoes, just about 76 pounds! Happy with them this year, so hopefully I can build on what we did this year!

Here's my end of the season list:

Produce Type	Variety	Pounds	Ounces
Beans	All Dried Types	6.00	14.00	4.00
Beans	Jade	5.00	10.00	4.00
Beans	Japanese Sword Beans	0.00	9.00	6.00
Beans	Purple Velour	0.00	0.00	1.00
Beets	Golden
Beets	Chiogga
Beets	Red Cloud
	(Combined all beets)	3.00	6.00	6.00
Celery	Kintasi Chinese	0.00	0.00	3.00
Celery	Pink Plume	0.00	1.00	1.00
Celery	Red Venture	0.00	1.00	2.00
Cowpeas	Reagan Crowder
Cowpeas	Sugar Daddy
	(Combined all cowpeas)	0.00	14.00	3.00
Cucumber		0.00	4.00	2.00
Eggplant	Little Prince	1.00	1.00	3.00
Okra	Mixed Volunteers	0.00	15.00	8.00
Onion	Bunching	0.00	0.00	8.00
Pepper, Hot	Aji Cachucha	0.00	5.00	2.00
Pepper, Hot	Aji Jobito	0.00	0.00	8.00
Pepper, Hot	Big Jim Hatch	0.00	3.00	1.00
Pepper, Hot	Black, Small	0.00	0.00	6.00
Pepper, Hot	Feher Ozon	0.00	12.00	6.00
Pepper, Hot	Frigitello	0.00	13.00	7.00
Pepper, Hot	Jalapeno (Unknown)	0.00	11.00	1.00
Pepper, Hot	Shishito	0.00	12.00	4.00
Pepper, Hot	Spanish Padron	2.00	6.00	7.00
Pepper, Hot	Total Eclipse	1.00	11.00	1.00
Pepper, Sweet	Criolla de Cocina	0.00	9.00	2.00
Pepper, Sweet	Doe Hill	1.00	10.00	9.00
Pepper, Sweet	JR Pepper	0.00	0.00	7.00
Pepper, Sweet	Leysa	0.00	1.00	4.00
Pepper, Sweet	Leibsefpel	1.00	4.00	0.00
Radish	Mixed	0.00	0.00	2.00
Squash	Black Beauty Zucchini	0.00	8.00	2.00
Squash	Yellow Crookneck	1.00	1.00	7.00
Tomatillo	Gigante Verde	0.00	13.00	0.00
Tomato	Aussie	0.00	14.00	5.00
Tomato	Black from Tula	4.00	11.00	6.00
Tomato	Butter Apple	11.00	7.00	7.00
Tomato	Early Susubakus Aliana	5.00	9.00	0.00
Tomato	Faelan's First Snow	0.00	3.00	3.00
Tomato	Holy Land	0.00	5.00	5.00
Tomato	Hundreds and Thousands	1.00	6.00	7.00
Tomato	Kumato	4.00	5.00	5.00
Tomato	Michalyk	3.00	12.00	8.00
Tomato	McMurray	0.00	4.00	8.00
Tomato	Monkey's Ass	3.00	10.00	6.00
Tomato	Persimmon	0.00	4.00	6.00
Tomato	Pink Stuffer	8.00	1.00	8.00
Tomato	Pink Thai Egg	7.00	11.00	9.00
Tomato	Pinnochio Orange	0.00	0.00	2.00
Tomato	Purple Bumblebee	3.00	2.00	0.00
Tomato	Spoon	0.00	3.00	9.00
Tomato	Sweet Millions	4.00	6.00	9.00
Tomato	Texas Wild Cherry	0.00	10.00	9.00
Tomato	Tomatoberry	3.00	7.00	4.00
Tomato	Valentine	9.00	2.00	7.00
Tomato	Volunteer Red Grape	0.00	4.00	1.00
Tomato	White Currant	0.00	9.00	0.00
Tomato	Yellow Micro-Dwarf	0.00	1.00	9.00
Tomato	Zapotec	1.00	7.00	8.00
Watermelon	Sugar Daddy	3.00	11.00	7.00
FRUIT
Peach	Loring
Peach	Red Skin
Peach	Sam Houston	7.00	11.00	2.00
Peach	Rio Grande (3)	1.00	9.00	6.00
Peach	LaFeliciana
Peach	TexStar (2)	4.00	8.00	8.00
Apple	Gala
Apple	Pink Lady
Nectarine	Suncoast (2)
Plum	Methley	3.00	2.00	0.00
Plum	Gulf Beauty (2)
Plum	Santa Rosa (2)
Loquat	Japanese Plum
Elderberries	York (2)	2.00	1.00	6.00
Elderberries	Adams (2)
Elderberries	American
Elderberries	Sampo
Blackberries	Brazos
Blackberries	Chester Thornless (1)	2.00	6.00	4.00
Blackberries	Aztec Thornless (5)
Blackberries	Sweetie Pie Thornless (3)
Blackberries	Arapaho Thornless (2)
Raspberries	Black (3)
Raspberries	Glencoe Thornless (2)
Fig	Brown Turkey
Mulberry	Dwarf Everbearing (2)	0.00	0.00	1.00
Mulberry	Russian (1)
Pear	Orient
Pear	Warren
Pecans	Choctaw (2)
Pecans	Pawnee
Pecans	Kiowa
Strawberries	Everbearing	0.00	12.00	3.00
Lime	Key Lime Tree	0.00	0.00	4.00
Grapes
		136 lbs.	3.	9 ounces