Fall Garden

Fall Gardening -Starting My Seeds On Labor Day

So, I am determined to grow fresh vegetables for us this fall. I have procrastinated a bit because of the unbearable heat. I did manage to get the cucumbers seeds planted last week and they came up on Saturday! 

Here they are on Labor Day. I'm going to wait a few days and thin them out... leaving the strongest ones.

I also planted some seeds on Labor Day.....  broccoli, cabbage, green beans, carrots, and potatoes. An ant mound kept me from planting the squash! I think I took care of them and hopefully I can get those in the ground tomorrow as well as some herbs.

I sectioned off the areas so I wouldn't over plant the seeds. 

Above is the carrot section. I made 3 rows of 20.

This section is about 5 feet long by 1.25 feet wide.

The section on the left has broccoli and cabbage. Here I did 4 cabbage and six broccoli. (If I remember! We'll see them in a few days I hope.)

The plants you see are leftovers from the summer. 

In the back of the photo is a bell pepper plant and a serrano pepper plant. In the front of the photo is a habanero plant. (Around the habanero plant will eventually be herbs.)

They seem to be doing fine so I am just going to leave them alone.

This is the opposite side of the garden. In the large rectangle, I planted 2 rows of 6 green beans.

 In the smaller rectangle is 2 rows of 2 lima beans. I'm not the biggest fan of lima beans, but I had some seeds so we will try them out.

Behind the small rectangle, we are doing an experiment. I had like 8 small yellow potatoes from the grocery store that were beginning to get eyes on them, so I threw those in the garden to see if they will come up! Time will tell! But, I don't have high expectations for them! 

That's all I could do on Labor Day as I ran into two piles of ants on the other side of the beans. I treated the ants and couldn't continue until Wednesday, September 4th. 

Wednesday, September 4th, 2013

Inside the circles, I planted 5-6 zucchini seeds. The circles are to remind me where they are until they come up. It seems like a lot, but last time when I tried to grow from seed I didn't have a single one survive! So this time I am trying to increase my odds! I will have to thin them out if there are too many. I might just have to find them a new home. We love squash in this house!

Well I have 2 small sections left in the raised bed. I am going to try Fall tomatoes again this year in one. The other will probably be some herbs... like thyme or parsley... So I'm off to the Nursery to see what they have!