Posted: 9/6/2009 7:01:06 AM EDT
| This will be my last try at cabbage, broc, cauliflower and brussels. Can't keep the bugs off them in the spring and they get on there almost too late to spray with Sevin. If the dang bugs latch ahold of them one more time I will official buy these vegs at the store. Planted the transplants last night as well as some turnip seeds for another test. The last option will be a PITA row cover which makes it not worth while to mess with. |
We're passing on the fall crops.
Got a bunch of winter squash cooking, but that's gonna be it. Not enough time here......too much ground to prep for next year and too many other things competing for our attention. The only thing blossoming on our homestead right now is my worklist. 
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LOL, my radishes were planted a month ago......no radish balls, just stem and leaves. I thought kindergarten kids could even grow radishes.
But, I've got some of the nicest lettuce going that I've had all year. I put a raised bed under a tree that gets two hours of sun a day. Made a wilted leaf salad last night that would make you want to smack yo mommy! 
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| Any suggestions on some good fall crops for the central VA area. My mother in law is staying with the wife and I until mid to late October. She came out to help with the baby that is due any day now. She loves to work outside and doesn't speak English, so since we don't have a Vietnamese channel on Comcast, she wants something to do with her time. Since arriving Tuesday night, she has raked my back yard, trimmed down the overgrown wild grape vipes along the fence, washed my trashcan, and today she took apart and cleaned the gas grill. Any suggestions would be appreciated and oriental vegetables would be a plus. |
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Any suggestions on some good fall crops for the central VA area. My mother in law is staying with the wife and I until mid to late October. She came out to help with the baby that is due any day now. She loves to work outside and doesn't speak English, so since we don't have a Vietnamese channel on Comcast, she wants something to do with her time. Since arriving Tuesday night, she has raked my back yard, trimmed down the overgrown wild grape vipes along the fence, washed my trashcan, and today she took apart and cleaned the gas grill. Any suggestions would be appreciated and oriental vegetables would be a plus. You mind if I borrow your mother-in-law? I've got a long chore list. |
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I've got three different patches of turnip greens going.
One that's about 3 weeks old and "almost" ready to pick a small mess from. (For the Mrs.) One that's in one of my raised beds from which I have just cleared the remains of green beans and sweet corn. And one large patch (mixed with some Kale) out in the back pasture. (Hopefully to keep the deer occupied and out of the other two.) Thought about putting in some fall cabbage in another raised bed but I still have a few cherry tomatoes and peppers that are producing in that one. I think I might skip the cabbage this year and put in a little lettuce / mixed greens instead. I need to get some manure in this bed though before that though. My strawberry bed is exploding with plants. I put in nine plants this spring, and did the whole (pinch off all the flowers) thing, well mostly anyway, and now the little runners have put out and the bed is almost full. Probably around 20 or 30 plants in there now. Next year we will have to thin them out some ore add another bed. MIKE |
| ReelDoc I have found in the Fall there seems to be less of a bug problem on veggies. The bugs that hit the Spring plantings are usually done with their cycle and gone or close to it. My Fall Cauli and Broc last year had maybe one little hole in a leaf per plant last Fall without any chemicals on them. |