Planting September 2019 Planting Guide And Chat Thread

packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

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https://www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/
1st
Excellent for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Good day for planting peas, beans, tomatoes, peppers, and other aboveground crops in southern Florida, Texas, and California.
2nd - 3rd
Start seedbeds. Excellent time for planting aboveground crops that can be planted now, including leafy vegetables which will do well.
4th - 6th
Clear fencerows, wood lots, and fields, but do no planting.
7th - 8th
Any aboveground crops that can be planted now will do well.
9th - 11th
Poor planting days. Kill plant pests.
12th - 13th
Extra good for vine crops. Favorable days for planting aboveground crops.
14th - 16th
A poor time to plant.
17th - 18th
Good days for transplanting. Good days for planting root crops.
19th - 21st
Seeds planted now tend to rot in ground.
22nd - 23rd
Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Good days for transplanting. Fine planting days for fall potatoes, turnips, onions, carrots, beets, and other root crops.
24th - 27th
Clear ground, turn sod, or kill plant pests.
28th - 29th
Excellent for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Good days for planting peas, beans, tomatoes, peppers, and other aboveground crops in southern Florida, Texas, and California.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
I may try planting arugula again this week, I planted some this spring got a great bunch but rained too much to harvest any from the garden so it bolted.

What are you planting for a fall crop?
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

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I found a pair of socks I started knitting about ten years ago, I need to find the pattern again and finish the toe on the one sock and I'm good to go! I'll try to post a photo later.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

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Well after reading several blogs and watching several youtube videos of other peoples gardens I think I'm just going to put mine to bed early this year... and do something I've never done in the fall before and amend the soil this year. Hopefully by doing so, clearing the beds, etc., things can be planted earlier next spring.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

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We amended one of the beds this year, it's filled with tomatoes, the northern half of that bed ended up with blossom end rot (need to look up how to treat) and the other half the tomatoes were perfect. We amended another bed, filled it with green beans that the slugs ate, and cucumbers which did poorly. So I need to rethink that bed for next year as well... what I really need is a load of composted horse manure! The weather was so erratic that I'm shocked that anything grew at all.
 
greenhart

greenhart

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In early July I sowed 3 different types of lettuce inside due to the heat outside. After they came up I moved them to the porch where they can get early morning sun but shade the rest of the day. They are now ready to be transplanted into the garden but it's hot and dry yet. We have a slight heat wave forecast for the next few days then a cool down with rain so I guess I'll have to wait.

This will be the first time for fall lettuce but I've grown fall planted kale and mustard greens and turnips over the years.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

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greenhart said:
In early July I sowed 3 different types of lettuce inside due to the heat outside. After they came up I moved them to the porch where they can get early morning sun but shade the rest of the day. They are now ready to be transplanted into the garden but it's hot and dry yet. We have a slight heat wave forecast for the next few days then a cool down with rain so I guess I'll have to wait.

This will be the first time for fall lettuce but I've grown fall planted kale and mustard greens and turnips over the years.
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I've yet to plant a fall crop, kinda intimidated that if I do it'll snow early and no crop. A friend is bringing me apples tomorrow, I can't wait they're a Jonathan Winesap cross!
 
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packyderms_wife said:
I've yet to plant a fall crop, kinda intimidated that if I do it'll snow early and no crop. A friend is bringing me apples tomorrow, I can't wait they're a Jonathan Winesap cross!
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Basic rule of thumb for either market gardening or subsistence growing is simple: if you don't lose at least some of your earliest or latest planted crops to frost... you're not planting early or late enough! Obviously, that doesn't mean you direct seed tomatoes in August in zone 5, but you can be surprised by how well many cool season crops can do, simply with a bit of frost protection. Also, it's not at all unusual for a killing frost to be followed by several weeks of warmer weather. At least here in southwestern NY, it's very rare for it to stay cold with frequent freezes soon after the first frost...

Summerthyme
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

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summerthyme said:
Basic rule of thumb for either market gardening or subsistence growing is simple: if you don't lose at least some of your earliest or latest planted crops to frost... you're not planting early or late enough! Obviously, that doesn't mean you direct seed tomatoes in August in zone 5, but you can be surprised by how well many cool season crops can do, simply with a bit of frost protection. Also, it's not at all unusual for a killing frost to be followed by several weeks of warmer weather. At least here in southwestern NY, it's very rare for it to stay cold with frequent freezes soon after the first frost...

Summerthyme
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Yeah, we get a hard frost or killing frost, and then can end up with temps back in the 70's even low 80's depending on the year. OC and I decided to put the beds to rest early this year and I'm going to pull everything do a little amending, add more composted manure and shredded leaves to cover for over the winter. We'll see what happens next year... I need to be more proactive on slug control/patrol. They literally ate my green bean patch overnight. I mean at 9pm the beans were still there intact and by 9am the next morning, gone every single plant chewed down to the soil. Thank heavens the local grocery store had Missouri Green Beans for 99 cents a pound and if you bought them by the bushel you got them for 89 cents a pound, so I bought a bushel to can. We buy canned goods from Aldi's as well but we prefer either fresh or canned when I make green beans with onion and bacon.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

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John Deere Girl said:
We are zone 6. I hadn't heard that, but it wouldn't surprise me.
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My friend that visited me yesterday has been gardening here in Iowa for over 50 years now and she's telling me that all signs point to an early winter this year. She lives out in the country and the bucks are in rut early this year as well. They have fruit trees and the fruit matured early as did her concord grapes and this is after a really screwy spring.
 
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