Now that October is here, most of our temperatures will be below 100 F (38 C) during the day, and the nights will finally cool off into the 60's and 70's. So over the past week I have put in my fall vegetable garden. I purchased one Early Girl tomato plant and two zucchini plants.
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| zucchini |
I have two rhubarb chard plants from my spring garden plantings that managed to stay alive through the heat of the summer, and they are growing again. I also have planted more chard seeds.
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| rhubarb chard |
From seed packets left over from my spring garden, I planted organic buttercrunch lettuce, a couple of rows of loose leaf lettuces like black seeded simpson, royal oakleaf, and green and maroon lettuce called prizeleaf. Additionaly, I purchased and set out four red leaf lettuces plants and four bibb lettuce plants that will have a head start on the seed planted ones.
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| red leaf lettuce |
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| bibb lettuce |
I sowed a couple of rows of spinach called baby's leaf, and a couple of rows of little finger carrots that grow only three to four inches long. I had about eight radish seeds left over from spring that I also planted in my square foot garden. This spring was the first time I tried square foot gardening, and I don't really like this method of gardening. To me it's restrictive. I can get much more out of a garden that's planted in rows, instead of these squares. I will probably go back to row planting next year.
Nice to see your vegetable garden taking shape. Aren't there benefits to square foot gardening? I don't really know, because all I do is container gardening and THAT is really restrictive. Though, it's the easiest option for me as I only have a roof and a balcony for my gardening activities.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping your crops taste as delicious as they look. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteLee,
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping they all make it. We've been back up to 100 F every day for a week.
Anita,
ReplyDeleteYour gardening space does sound restricted. There's not much advantages for me in square foot gardening which assumes that the row gardener tills the entire garden, uses 3-foot aisles between rows to walk on, and plants long rows of a single crop. I don't do any of those things. I only till the row itself, use tiny aisles every three rows, and never plant a whole row of anything.