Just went out and snapped a few pics of the garden.
This is the 78 pepper plants that we saved from the Spring planting. Now that Fall has set in, they are gong great gangbusters...
This is what's left of the squash and cucumbers... They all produced really well except I battled Squash Vine Borers this Fall... We didn't have any issue with them this Spring... I'd have thought the opposite would have occurred. I was able to salvage all the infected plants by killing the larvae in the infected plants by digging them out, then covering the plants higher up their stems with soil and watering them in real heavily... They recovered and began producing again... Now though, even though we covered them when we got that one frost earlier in the month, it has taken its toll on them. They're about done, but man did we get a lot of squash... We planted all Summer squash varieties like crook-neck, Patty Pan, and 3 varieties of round squash and grenade squash... Even the yellow zucchini did well. I'll be pulling them out here in the next week and recycling the soil in the bags.
The maters are about a pretty as we've ever grown! They are lush, dark green and loaded down with maters. We covered them successfully during the one frost, and have the covers ready JIC we get another one before the maters are big enough to pick. Our plan is to move a few plants into the greenhouse and try to keep them going a while into the Winter...
This is the broccoli, cauliflower and Pak choy. These are all doing very well. The broccoli plants all have nice heads on them, and the cauliflowers have started some pretty serious curling in their centers so I'm hoping small heads are forming there as well.
The in-ground portion of the garden was hit and miss. Below are a few pics of squash and maters that came from the same seedling trays as the bag plants we planted and they were all planted the same day or within a day or two of the bag plantings. The rows were given the same soil amendments we gave the bags and they have drip tape watering systems under them for plenty of water... The bags did remarkably better than the in-ground plants, which actually surprised me, but confirmed our approach of bag gardening for most succulent plants.
This is our peas/beans. They all did the best we've ever grown. For the first time ever we actually were able to grow green beans in a quantity sufficient we were able to can quite a few quart jars and we still have probably one picking left to get. There are also 2 double rows of top pick pink-eye purple hull peas, and a double row each of two other varieties of field peas that I don't recall specifically what they are (that's my wife's department). They are all loaded down with little peas and blooms.
If I can get the corn through about 2 more weeks before we get a freeze, we should have some nice sweet corn. We planted a variety that has a short mature date. It's not very tall and we've tried to keep up with spraying Spinosad for the ear worms, but not sure whether or not we have been successful. That series of pipes/tubes is so we can throw a cover over the whole plot in the event we have a predicted frost... It's left over from the one frost we had and we were successful in saving it really well. It was not damaged at all.
As I posted above, we have carrots and onions in the ground that we expect to over-Winter... never tried that before, so we'll see how it goes and I'll report in the Spring. There are a couple rows of cabbage and beets in the ground too and they are doing well if we can get them up and mature before they get zapped by a frost...
All in all, the Fall garden was a LOT less effort than the Spring garden and I'm pretty sure we will be doing this again next Fall. Here is a panoramic shot of the main garden. Not sure how it will be able to be seen on here, but we'll give it a shot... What is not shown is our main blackberry patch which is around the corner of the fence and I could not see it from the vantage point where I did the pano...
Once we move the plants into the greenhouses we want to keep from freezing to try to prolong their life this Winter, I'll try to do another update on how that goes.
Hope y'all enjoyed following along on this fun project as much as we did doing it!!
This is the 78 pepper plants that we saved from the Spring planting. Now that Fall has set in, they are gong great gangbusters...
This is what's left of the squash and cucumbers... They all produced really well except I battled Squash Vine Borers this Fall... We didn't have any issue with them this Spring... I'd have thought the opposite would have occurred. I was able to salvage all the infected plants by killing the larvae in the infected plants by digging them out, then covering the plants higher up their stems with soil and watering them in real heavily... They recovered and began producing again... Now though, even though we covered them when we got that one frost earlier in the month, it has taken its toll on them. They're about done, but man did we get a lot of squash... We planted all Summer squash varieties like crook-neck, Patty Pan, and 3 varieties of round squash and grenade squash... Even the yellow zucchini did well. I'll be pulling them out here in the next week and recycling the soil in the bags.
The maters are about a pretty as we've ever grown! They are lush, dark green and loaded down with maters. We covered them successfully during the one frost, and have the covers ready JIC we get another one before the maters are big enough to pick. Our plan is to move a few plants into the greenhouse and try to keep them going a while into the Winter...
This is the broccoli, cauliflower and Pak choy. These are all doing very well. The broccoli plants all have nice heads on them, and the cauliflowers have started some pretty serious curling in their centers so I'm hoping small heads are forming there as well.
The in-ground portion of the garden was hit and miss. Below are a few pics of squash and maters that came from the same seedling trays as the bag plants we planted and they were all planted the same day or within a day or two of the bag plantings. The rows were given the same soil amendments we gave the bags and they have drip tape watering systems under them for plenty of water... The bags did remarkably better than the in-ground plants, which actually surprised me, but confirmed our approach of bag gardening for most succulent plants.
This is our peas/beans. They all did the best we've ever grown. For the first time ever we actually were able to grow green beans in a quantity sufficient we were able to can quite a few quart jars and we still have probably one picking left to get. There are also 2 double rows of top pick pink-eye purple hull peas, and a double row each of two other varieties of field peas that I don't recall specifically what they are (that's my wife's department). They are all loaded down with little peas and blooms.
If I can get the corn through about 2 more weeks before we get a freeze, we should have some nice sweet corn. We planted a variety that has a short mature date. It's not very tall and we've tried to keep up with spraying Spinosad for the ear worms, but not sure whether or not we have been successful. That series of pipes/tubes is so we can throw a cover over the whole plot in the event we have a predicted frost... It's left over from the one frost we had and we were successful in saving it really well. It was not damaged at all.
As I posted above, we have carrots and onions in the ground that we expect to over-Winter... never tried that before, so we'll see how it goes and I'll report in the Spring. There are a couple rows of cabbage and beets in the ground too and they are doing well if we can get them up and mature before they get zapped by a frost...
All in all, the Fall garden was a LOT less effort than the Spring garden and I'm pretty sure we will be doing this again next Fall. Here is a panoramic shot of the main garden. Not sure how it will be able to be seen on here, but we'll give it a shot... What is not shown is our main blackberry patch which is around the corner of the fence and I could not see it from the vantage point where I did the pano...
Once we move the plants into the greenhouses we want to keep from freezing to try to prolong their life this Winter, I'll try to do another update on how that goes.
Hope y'all enjoyed following along on this fun project as much as we did doing it!!
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