re: 2024 Fall Garden Thread

took advantage of a cloudy morning and cleaned up a row in the garden. Even with the clouds, it was brutal with no wind. The bad thing about mulching between your rows is that eventually that mulch breaks down enough for weed seeds to start and grow in it. About 4 weeks til we have a chance for a cold front.

That turned out really nice. Great work.

Nice. That looks great.

I turned over and added compost to two of my raised beds yesterday. It was absolutely brutal with the heat. I'm going to try to plant lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, and chard this weekend. Not sure if I'll do anything else for the fall. Maybe broccoli. I also cut back a lot of my peppers to try to encourage them to have a good fall run.

I was starting to think I’d get lucky and avoid them. But, the vine borers finally found my butternut vines. Dang things were covered in eggs when I went check in on everything this afternoon. Butternut is supposed to be pretty resistant to the borers but I’m not taking any chances. Picked off as many as I could find and sprayed Bt and liquid Sevin.

Planted them a few weeks ago. They’re still a little small but growing fast.

picked an adult moth off my cucumbers yesterday. Don’t see any eggs yet but I’m sure they are there. I checked them good this morning and thankfully saw a bunch of ladybugs on the leaves

Impressive stuff in this thread, garden dojo is awesome and something to inspire to....thought my planters was a big undertaking

I have received my seeds! Green Magic Broccoli and Danvers 126 half long carrots! As suggested in this thread, I got some "cowopots" for the broccoli and I also received my soil analysis, progress!

More questions:
My soil analysis has 1lb nitrogen / 1k SF, 0 phosphorus, 2.1lbs potassium. 50lbs/1k of lime, pre-plant. Any fertilizer with that ratio the board would recommend? Similar question for side dress, recommended 1-0-0 ratio

I am going to try to stagger planting of the seeds, but I was going to attempt something like every 7-10 days, four consecutive times, or something so I am not just overwhelmed with a large yield at once. I have 200 carrot seeds and 100 broccoli seeds, so was just going to do my best to do 25% each time. It seems doable, but a fine needle the thread (Planting after it is too hot, harvest before it is too cold), so I may lose some but I think my family will be able to actually use more vs. trying to give it away. Any pointers or advice before I get started? I have the first batch of Broccoli in cow pots and plan do the next batch next week.

First time okra grower. Planted seeds on July 4 after pulling tomatoes. Plants are 3-4 ft tall now and flowering. I noticed the first couple of baby okra turned yellow and they aren't growing and will likely fall off. Starting to get some now that are growing. Is this normal?

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Planted seeds on July 4 after pulling tomatoes.

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I always put my okra seeds in the ground in April and by late June to the time I pull the plants, I am picking okra daily. They are still producing when I pull them in late September-----early October to put in the fall/winter garden.

I'd think the summer heat got to the young plants but they may start producing as they grow larger.

Thanks. I figured it was normal to lose a couple early on. Looks like they are growing well now.