re: 2026 Fall Garden Thread

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If you ever make it around Vermilion parish would be happy to give you a bunch of seeds.

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that would be worth a drive. Thanks I’ll take you up on that soon.

Ours was certified by Hilltop Arboretum (LSU). I sent her home with a seedling of our giant black eyed Susan and a bunch of basket flower seeds

I successfully sprouted foraged comfort root seeds (Hibiscus aculeatus) so I’m excited to get those planted in a few weeks. Waiting on some Hibiscus coccineus seeds to germinate as well. I dug up some of the blooming hibiscus roots from the side of the interstate in manchac and those are sprouting now but I don’t think they’ll bloom again until next year. I assume that’s what you have…do you know what species those are? White and pink blooms, they were all blooming several weeks ago

I think they are Hibiscus lasiocarpos

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H. laevis aka Halberd-leaf mallow

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thats the one. I think that’s what I found

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Prime time for seed collection of your silphium, liatris, gaura, most rudbeckias, mints, etc will be in about another month or so

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man I would love to come collect some seeds. If you are ok with it lets exchange info

excellent

Here’s the sprouted mallow from the roadside last month, I think it’s halberd leaf. I had to bare root them so I didn’t transplant any ditch weeds so they shriveled and resprouted from the roots



I also spotted some more comfortroot this morning and grabbed some seeds. These have yellow flowers with a red eye and are still in full bloom. Scabrous leaves and stems

There was some blooming meadowbeauty in there so I pull some up as well. Productive morning LOL

My wife wants to plant some fall lima bush beans if I can get rid of the dang racoons that keep invading the garden.

When the cream peas, bell peppers and tomatoes quit producing we will be planting some turnip greens. We got good greens last year, but no turnips. I can get turnips from Walmart, but not good greens.

Do you plant hollyhocks? Mine have been champs, and they produce a ton of seeds.

Next year I am going to plant the dwarf variety and see how they do.

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Do you plant hollyhocks?

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my mother gave me a bag of seeds from hers earlier this summer i was going to plant them this fall

My wife planted some lima bush beans this morning. This is our first attempt of these.

She has bagged six quarts of cream peas from the small 4' x 8' raised bed. It would have been more if not for the racoons getting in there ripping the roots up. It does appear that they may be growing a second crop. This is the bed we normally have turnip greens in so they may be planted late.

Well, after mine laid empty all spring and summer due to my having a hand surgery and not making a garden, it got overgrown with weeds.

Last week I got out there with my weed whacker and cut it back to about 2 inches off the ground and exposed the inner stems and them hit the whole area with weed killer to knock it out. Took 2 applications in some areas but got it done.

I got out yesterday and hit the garden with the tiller to start loosening up the soil and again today to get it a bit deeper and tilled a little finer. Next step will be to pull some rows, lay down cardboard between them and cover that with organic matter to hold the cardboard down and help with weed control, water retention and letting that stuff decompose to turn under in the spring.

Still too early in N.O. to put in seeds and starter plants with this damn heat, but I'll be ready when the time comes.

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The second 4' x 8' raised bed has tomatoes and they are still producing to many to pull them up also.

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I just noticed your location listed as NW Arkansas, so still having tomatoes this time of year makes more sense. Mine are toast by late June-early July in the N.O. area.

Got tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash, beans, and zucchini out in New Orleans. They’re doing fine with the heat, so far.

Damn beans are 10” tall and I put seeds down last Thursday.