When do you give up on your vegetable garden?
08-15-2010, 06:56 AM
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Sounds like some of your crops are ready to till under. I don't plant nearly as much anymore (family is grown) but still have tomato plants and cucumbers. Neighbor furnishes zucchini and get sweet corn at farmers market. Will can pears later as our tree must have 20 bushel on it this year. all the neighbors will love me. grin
08-15-2010, 07:13 AM
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When the sight of it brought tears to my eyes. I lost everything to the heat, disease,critters and bugs. Never had a season like this one. Did manage to put some up before the catastrophe, though.
There's always the Fall garden and next year to look forward to.
There's always the Fall garden and next year to look forward to.
08-15-2010, 07:46 AM
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Mine is in full bloom with veggies but it's in square foot boxes, 4'x4' on the ground in the dogs enclosed yard so no problems with the deer this year, yet anyway. Because of the size, should they predict an early frost, I can just throw an old sheet over each box to cover them for the night.
08-15-2010, 09:59 AM
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It is so hot here in Texas that everything is burning up and the grasshoppers have eaten everything, but I still water the plants and now I am getting new tomatoes coming on my plants. Peppers too. Gave up on all the rest. Maybe some will survive for fall. Never Give Up.
08-15-2010, 12:38 PM
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Don't give up. Pull what is ruined. Plant peas and carrots and lettuce and spinach. They are all cold weather crops.
Originally Posted by Favorite Fabrics
Is there a point in the growing season when you basically give up on your vegetable garden?
I've about hit that point. The cabbage is diseased, the weeds are taking over, the broccoli's shot, the beans got rusty, and the squash vine borers have found my squash (plus powdery mildew is setting in).
In theory, we're about six weeks from the first frost. Not enough time for another crop of anything except maybe lettuce or turnips.
I'm about ready to start yanking up everything that's not performing.
On the upside: the tomatoes are coming in, the onions are ready to pull, the peppers are doing well, and the second crop of raspberries is starting to ripen.
I have one eggplant coming, too; this is my first attempt at eggplant. (Do you think six weeks more is long enough to get it to grow full-size?)
I've about hit that point. The cabbage is diseased, the weeds are taking over, the broccoli's shot, the beans got rusty, and the squash vine borers have found my squash (plus powdery mildew is setting in).
In theory, we're about six weeks from the first frost. Not enough time for another crop of anything except maybe lettuce or turnips.
I'm about ready to start yanking up everything that's not performing.
On the upside: the tomatoes are coming in, the onions are ready to pull, the peppers are doing well, and the second crop of raspberries is starting to ripen.
I have one eggplant coming, too; this is my first attempt at eggplant. (Do you think six weeks more is long enough to get it to grow full-size?)
08-15-2010, 01:34 PM
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We have a very short growing season where I live. We have been experimenting different veggies as to what will grow and what won't. DH wants to be able to raise something should the country get worse.
Got some green beans, but, just this morning pulled plants. Had to pull one tomato plant, tomatoes just would not grow. Other 2 tomato plants are loaded with tomato just, none red.
I have jalepeno peppers and green peppers, some squash. Radish and turnips were a no go. Corn is beginning to almost be ready to harvest, but, not large ears.
Don't have to water, in monsoon season here
Grape tomato grows the best here, next season will try another type of corn. Will also have a raised garden (less weeding to worry about)
Got some green beans, but, just this morning pulled plants. Had to pull one tomato plant, tomatoes just would not grow. Other 2 tomato plants are loaded with tomato just, none red.
I have jalepeno peppers and green peppers, some squash. Radish and turnips were a no go. Corn is beginning to almost be ready to harvest, but, not large ears.
Don't have to water, in monsoon season here
Grape tomato grows the best here, next season will try another type of corn. Will also have a raised garden (less weeding to worry about)
08-15-2010, 01:53 PM
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Who would guess it would be too hot to grow chile peppers? Mine are looking really peaked right now. They are burning up.
At my house, we take vegetable plants out when the produce starts tasting funny (bitter, whatever). Many not-so-pretty plants will still produce sometimes to an amazing extent. Diseased plants are another matter. It would depend on whether or not it is something that might infect the rest of the garden. Plants will grow long past what we expect if we put them to bed at night (cover them) when you start getting freeze warnings. Otherwise, I'd wait and see. I've had plants survive a few days of snow (I am in central Texas so we don't get much of this) and produce into the next year. It really depends on exposure. My husband heavily mulches everything in sight.
At my house, we take vegetable plants out when the produce starts tasting funny (bitter, whatever). Many not-so-pretty plants will still produce sometimes to an amazing extent. Diseased plants are another matter. It would depend on whether or not it is something that might infect the rest of the garden. Plants will grow long past what we expect if we put them to bed at night (cover them) when you start getting freeze warnings. Otherwise, I'd wait and see. I've had plants survive a few days of snow (I am in central Texas so we don't get much of this) and produce into the next year. It really depends on exposure. My husband heavily mulches everything in sight.
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