Fall garden

I have a 4 x 12' raised bed, a 1 x 8' raised bed, and a 16"x 16"x 8' planter box.

In the raised bed I'm kinda doing the square foot gardening method. Currently have 3 Carmen peppers, 3 Jimmy Nardello peppers, 2 Shishito peppers, and 2 bell peppers. I have a kale plant, 3 broccoli plants, and 3 cauliflower plants. All of those have been going for a couple weeks now. It rained every day for two weeks after I planted out my peppers, so I was a little worried about them. They seem to be doing fine now though. This weekend, I'm adding some lettuce, chard, carrots, and purple/yellow cauliflower to that bed.

In the 1x8' I have nothing but cucumbers and chard. I have 6 sweet success plants and 10 (I think) pickling cucumber plants. The plants are spaced 1' apart with two per hole. I have a couple of chard plants on the outside edge of the box as an experiment to see if they'll grow in the tight space. All seems to be doing well, and I'll say the sweet success cucumbers are ridiculously fast growing and productive. I had four ripe cucumbers on a vine two weeks after transplanting.

In the planter box I have one shishito pepper plant, 4 mohawk pepper plants, and three dwarf tomato plants (red robin). I also have some herbs in a staggered small box on the side of the planter, and some lettuce in a little 36"x 10" box on the side.

I have 8 tomato plants in grow bags. 1 Sweet 100 (cloned from a spring plant), 2 Sweet Million, 3 Cherokee Purple, a Celebrity, and a Better Boy. I also still have a jalapeno plant and an Anaheim pepper plant producing really well from the spring.

I just started growing stuff earlier this year so I have no idea what I'm doing for the most part. Got lots of help from the OB earlier in the spring.

planted yesterday beforw the rain (south ms)

2 types of mustards
turnips
kale
green onions

Prob about a 50yd x 30yd garden

After my squash did terrible in the spring and early summer they did well at the very end of the summer. Need to pull them and plant something else. Pumpkins at the end have taken off. Hopefully all the rain won't rot the little pumpkins that have started to form. I have quite a few green bean plants on the other end that are doing well, but not sure if they'll produce.

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2 Shishito peppers,

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Did you start those from seed? I can’t ever find a started plant and I want to grow those so bad.

I should have plenty more before the frost, so I’ll give that a shot next. This plant is going crazy. I probably picked 500 to make this batch of sauce and there’s still 100 green ones with more blooms every day.

Same, my kids want to grow them this year.

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I’ve been watching YouTube videos about growing them but will take all the advice you’re willing to share.

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The best I can do is to say to be sure to top the plants before they get too tall. That way more energy will go to making the sprouts fill out.

The sprouts will get bigger from the bottom up as they are the first to form on the stem. To encourage more of them to fill out, lop the top of the plant off and that energy goes to producing larger sprouts farther up the stem.

Does anybody know what may be wrong with this cucumber plant or how/if I can fix it? This is a leaf I cut off. A few of the leaves have this black dust like substance on the tops and on the stems, and the corners of the leaves will curl under and die off. The left part of the leaf that's broken off was because of me, FYI.

I treated the plant with a peroxide mixture so we'll see if I can kill it off before it demolishes my plants. I always water the roots, but it rained every single day for like three weeks straight after I planted these out.