What can I plant now

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I have some room to plant. The cabbage area, some of the potatoes and the garlic soon.
Could I start cabbage in the house and put out later? Greyhound 63 days or should have already started them a month ago?

I am pulling the little bit of peas and could I put pole beans? Rattlesnake 70 days or more peas?

I have small kale plants and bok-choy. I want to try the bok-choy in a shady cool area and just see if I can get anything. If this is too early then when would I plant it?

Escarole? Start outside or start inside and plant later?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Try looking through this.

http://www.ufseeds.com/Idaho-Vegetable-Planting-Calendar.html

 

[digitS']

I wonder if that zone planting chart varies by location. In other words, you see Coeur d'Alene's first frost listed as September 16 but the USDA map and chart refers us to zone 6 hardiness. When do we really run out of time before the continuing cold nights shut down plant growth .

Good news, not yet outta time for me!

I'd use the zone 5 chart, and not just because it was the designation prior to January 2012, when the new maps were drawn. And, not just because I have one garden in a very exposed area, much more so than my own backyard.

I could go thru and list what I have no experience with, quite a few but, mostly, I wasn't optimistic to try them. Some things require special circumstances but let's start with beets. Maybe they would sprout in the summer but they really failed as a late crop when I tried that.

Carrot PELLETED seed sprouted and grew to harvest when sown right through June! It worked so well for me that I tried July. Then they failed.

I bet a planting of Quickie or Fleet sweet corn would make it. Do I have experience there? Can't remember.

I have already mentioned on another thread cucumbers and summer squash planting right now. I have noticed little difference in the cucumber production. Zucchini and such could use more weeks in the fall but produce some. What I like about zukes is that they need just about the same amount of room as early cabbage. So, as that cabbage goes, the zucchini fills in.

Back to the beans ... BUSH beans. I once thought that I could get crops from anytime-in-July plantings. A couple of failures convinced me that it's best to stop on the 15th. They follow the peas in those beds.

The SNOW/SNAP pea seed can go in again as soon as the first, several potato plants are out of the way. In another 2 or 3 weeks will be the start of that early potato harvest will begin. Some years, light frost will occur before I can get any pods off the vines but it hasn't hurt them.

Sowing of Asian greens begin at the same time. I grow the "baby" varieties of bok choy and, actually, have zero experience with the larger types. I'll continue sowing seed every couple of weeks well into August.

This year, I want to include orach in those July and August sowings. It will self-sow in September but that will be for 2017.

Steve

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I think our zone 6 is strange because I used to be zone 5b when I ordered things and and now I am 6b and the same for my friend in Kansas. We not get a freeze, but we do not have heat. In Kansas in September it can still be in 90s and 80s during the day and depending on what year, we will be 60s, but I looked at Accuweather for Sept. and we will be 70s and 80s until about the 15th and then goes into 60s. I tried the beets in July and it did not work. I am try the snow/snap peas. The baby bok-choy, is it seeds in the ground or plants started in greenhouse? I am going to go put a few more cucumbers in and some yellow squash. I am going to start about 6 greyhound cabbage seeds here in the house and plant outside later and just see what happens. I will put some bush beans in and use the 15th as a stop date. The list that Ridgerunner posted, I have used it and I agree it is zone 5, but a couple of years ago, I think we were zone 6. I will try some spinach too. I may put some carrots in. I have those colored carrots Thistle talked about.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Try looking through this.

http://www.ufseeds.com/Idaho-Vegetable-Planting-Calendar.html

I think it is a good list. Thank you.

 

[digitS']

The baby bok-choy, is it seeds in the ground or plants started in greenhouse?

Over the course of about 3 weeks, I completely dig out the potato bed. As I go along, I refill with compostables and cover with soil. After the soil settles with one or two waterings, I begin sowing SEEDS, starting with pea seed - setting up a teepee trellis. Then, Asian greens of several types.

I'm tempted to include broccoli this year but since it's SEED, maybe it could be broccoli raab.

Steve

 

[ducks4you]

Brussels Spouts!!!! They aren't bitter when you plant now. Harvest late October through December. They are a 2 year crop and will set seed next year.