What Are You Planting Today, This Week, This Month?

[ohiofarmgirl]

hey everybody!!

so i'm moving stuff today - i have a million volunteer yellow pear tomatoes that would grow to save their lives last year and are now taking over!

and i need to do another round of beans

thank heaven it cooled down!

 

[lupinfarm]

Woot the first raised bed is COMPLETE, 20 feet of awesomeness, I've augmented the plain ole' black earth to give it a bit more UMPF for my corn in the one end, I've got some in the weed patch, oops...I mean plot garden, that is fairly tall around 2 ft tall now, and some Sunnyvee going in the raised bed at the one end (10 feet of it, probably about 15 rows...I think I'm going to need more seeds), and the other 10 feet for salad vegetables, lettuces, spinach, and if I can get another bed in another few cukes will go in and some zukes ( I started zukes in July last year and we had quite a few at harvest!). Pumpkins are planted by the chicken coop on the edge of that garden, hoping they will run downhill toward the forest. They are doing great too.

Ohhh what else.. oh perhaps some more beans to go in, and my Tomatoes (both roma and beefsteak) have green toms on them and are doing great, the peppers are flowering (even the jalepeno on the patio and the green pepper on the patio). Rhubarb is coming in to be canned (we don't have strawberries this season so i'm buying a load locally and making a load of strawberry rhubarb jam this weekend).

Uhhh...that's all I think! ... the rock garden is going in finally, I've got 3 lupins in the ground, just another 4 left to go for this round... plus a Spirea and a couple cone flowers, mulch and find some nice big limestone boulders to go in.

Holy jeez I have lots to do! ... that's just the one section of the rock garden... I have a whole 40 or so more feet to do around the front. We live on a hill and I hate mowing on the side of it so we've got the picket fencing going up around the garden at the front for the raspberries to lean on, and I'm turning the otherside of that into a low-maintenance rock garden full of lupins and other periennials.

 

[digitS']

Today I planted . . . snow peas !

Hottest day of the year, so far, 101F but I got the seed in when it was only about 90F. Then staggered out of the garden . . .

I may be 2 or 3 days late but this looks to be a warm year and frost should hold off until the last of September, first of October.

The vines won't be the size of those from a Spring planting but there should be pea pods for stir-fry. I've picked 'em covered with frost before. And, the tendrils taste just like peas (imagine that ) and can be enjoyed either cooked or in a salad.

Steve
:tools

 

[onedozenphyllises]

I planted swiss chard and broccoli on Sunday. I just saw that my broccoli has already sprouted!!

:tools

 

[digitS']

:tools Yesterday, I planted . . . cilantro !

It's quick and the tomatoes are ripening. Okay, so I don't have any cilantro right now because all the rest of it has bolted . . .

That leaves me - finally - with lots of ripe tomatoes, mature peppers, and NO cilantro. Whereas before, I had lots of cilantro and NO ripe tomatoes or peppers!

Oh yeah, and there's plenty of sweet onions!

The cilantro just doesn't like it hot and dry. Someone told me that it is grown commercially in greenhouses. That controlled environment means that it isn't subjected to too hot or too dry, even during the heat of summer.

Anyway, the very best cilantro plants I have during the year are the ones that overwinter. For cilantro, they get HUGE!

Steve
waiting for a rush of cilantro to go with the last of his ripe tomatoes, sweet onions and peppers . . .

 

[prism]

A couple of days ago I planted..... chrysanthemums.

The summer has been so short and cool, I needed a pick-me-up going into fall.

More pictures and article here:
http://www.xomba.com/bring_burst_fall_color_your_garden_chrysanthemums

 

[rockytopsis]

Tuesday this week I will be planting Kale, Mustard, Turnip Greens and Spinich.

 

[miron28]

i just planted turnip greens, lettuce, beans, carrots, i hope i wasn't to late on plating any of this. this is my first year having a garden so i am learning as i go.

 

[HiDelight]

my beds have been limed and are waiting for garlic to be planted in October
this week I will put in

peas, chard, carrots, a few varieties of lettuce, escarole, beets and spinach ..oh and transplant my chipmunks puple cauliflower starts

also time to think about the cold frames for my beds and reenforce the make shift green house on my deck

I am determined to reach a state or perpetual gardening!

 

[Hattie the Hen]

HiDelight

You & me both (re: all year gardening)!

Our two climates have quite a lot of similarities although tour winters I think are colder as my rosemary survives outside without any problems. But I am putting in very much the same veg! The evenings are already beginning to feel colder although the days are still warm enough. I'll have to get the fleece out again soon......................!!

:rose Hattie :rose