An August Analysis of My Vegetable Yard – Carol J. Michel
Correctly, proper right here we’re in August already!
Counting on how. your summer time season goes you is maybe grateful that we’re shortly approaching the “season of the pumpkin spice.”
Or probably you is perhaps in disbelief that it’s already this late throughout the season because you haven’t planted that last flat of flowers you bought throughout the spring.
Or probably you is perhaps correct proper right here in August, taking all of it in and having enjoyable with each scorching day.
I’m throughout the “correct proper right here” camp, though time does seem to clip alongside at a quick tempo, doesn’t it? Significantly if you happen to’re one among many children who needed to return to highschool this earlier week resulting from one factor referred to as “balanced college yr calendar.” Did they even have time to get good and utterly bored these last two months?
Anyway, out throughout the vegetable yard, it’s a superb time to step once more and assess the way in which it’s going, and I’ve completed merely that for The Vegetable Yard Cathedral.
The picture above reveals numerous the harvest from August 1st.
On the plus facet, this has been a wonderful yr for inexperienced beans! I’ve picked and picked and now I’m kind of ignoring the inexperienced bean vegetation on account of I’ve picked and picked. Plus these later inexperienced beans are sometimes a bit strong. Nevertheless I’ve two new rows I planted numerous weeks prior to now that can current me with numerous further inexperienced beans sooner than the highest of the season.
Moreover, the scarlet runner beans, which I planted late, are merely starting to flower.
These are going to be as pretty as marketed! I can not take into account that finding out a information on vegetable gardening written in 1926 happy me to develop them after all these years.
The summer time season squashes have been doing successfully ample—not good, nevertheless not horrible. One key to the success of those I planted from seed was planting nasturtiums alongside them, moreover from direct-sown seed.
The nasturitums are alleged to offend the squash bugs and preserve them away. I’m all for that they normally seem to have completed merely that on account of I don’t see a number of squash bugs correct now. Plus the nasturtiums are pretty and edible.
Staying in that exact same family as squash, the cucumbers have been a severe disappointment. They seem to have some powdery mildew or completely different plant sickness points. That’s the place larger crop rotation may have been helpful on account of I consider I planted them within the equivalent mattress the place I grew squash last yr. (Memo to self: preserve larger notes on what was planted in each mattress.).
I do have one cucumber producing successfully, and that is ‘Quick Snack’ which is rising in a six-inch container on my patio desk. I wrote about it in my lazy cucumber submit. I want to apologize now to the cucumbers on account of they aren’t lazy, they’re sick. I ought to easily pull them, nevertheless hope springs eternal that they’ll outgrow irrespective of is ailing them.
Shifting on…
Inside the subsequent raised mattress over from the cucumbers, the tomatoes are doing pretty good. I’m harvesting numerous every few days and have masses, though some have these splits on excessive which is expounded to haphazard watering. I’m proud of loads of the varieties too. I’ve to make one different phrase to confirm my seed stash to utilize numerous the leftover seeds subsequent yr instead of buying them as soon as extra. They’ll be good for numerous years.
The peppers are doing pretty successfully!
Correctly, all are doing successfully moreover this one plant. It’s ‘Ruby Large,’ a spread I decided to attempt after finding out that 1926 gardening information. I don’t know why this one is yellow and gained’t develop. One different plant of the equivalent choice all through from it is doing merely very good. All the other peppers are doing good, along with ‘Large Bertha’ confirmed on this picture subsequent to the ailing ‘Ruby Large.’
Elsewhere throughout the yard, the sweet corn has been laughable. It’s a small patch and produced pretty small ears of corn. I’m not even constructive they’ll be edible nevertheless I wanted to pick out them sooner than the raccoons did. (I’m pretty constructive the raccoons have been in the marketplace… I blame them for flattening numerous sunflowers to get to the seeds.)
Moreover ridiculous is the okra. I planted ‘White Velvet,’ a spread I look at in that 1926 information. I was so excited after I found the seeds for it at Southern Publicity Seed Commerce that I by probability bought two packets. (I gave one away at a chat I did throughout the spring.) I consider I planted them in an extreme quantity of shade on account of they’re most likely solely about two toes tall and have however to flower. The packet said they may develop to 10 toes tall. I didn’t anticipate that nevertheless I did anticipate taller than then two toes.
Anyway, that’s nearly how the summer time season vegetable yard is rising this season. One closing constructive phrase… I do take into account I’ll get some figs this yr.
And probably some pawpaws, if the raccoons don’t resolve them first.
How’s your vegetable yard doing this yr?
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Correctly, proper right here we’re in August already! Counting on how. your summer time season goes you is maybe grateful that we’re shortly approaching the “season of the pumpkin spice.” Or probably you is perhaps in disbelief that it’s already this late throughout the season because you haven’t planted that…