From the Veggie Garden Today

[Ostrodamus]

Last Friday.

 

[Meadowlark]

No postings for a month in this thread ...time to change that.

Today, I harvested the first fall veggie of our 2024 season. Normally this wouldn't be especially noteworthy but the Bok Choy shown below was started Aug. 30 this year and since that time has endured high temps consistently above 95 deg F.

In spite of record setting heat, Bok Choy can be grown in my HK containers even in that heat but will not grow/produce in ground. I don't understand why this is, but if one lives in a scorching sub-tropical climate, such as here, these containers offer previously unavailable avenue of growing leafy veggies.

One plant will provide this family a couple of meals of stir-fried veggies with taste unlike any other.

 

[Meadowlark]

The old (cucumbers and jalapeno peppers and the new Bok Choy) harvested today:

 

[Zigs]

Looking good Mr Lark

We have a rat that's been taking tomatoes into the cold frame to eat them so I picked off the last outside ones today and then picked the Bridgwater beans that had podded up.

 

[Meadowlark]

I'm sad to report, @Zigs , that the bridgwater beans didn't survive the Texas heat. They each germinated and climbed about three to four feet, but the heat was just too much for them. Day after day over 95 deg F and night after night above 75 deg F. Record breaking, unprecedented heat through September. Thanks for enabling the attempted transfer...but it was just too hot.

 

[Zigs]

I'm sad to report, @Zigs , that the bridgwater beans didn't survive the Texas heat. They each germinated and climbed about three to four feet, but the heat was just too much for them. Day after day over 95 deg F and night after night above 75 deg F. Record breaking, unprecedented heat through September. Thanks for enabling the attempted transfer...but it was just too hot.

Aww, that's a shame Mr Lark

Probably why they're called Bridgwater beans and not Austin beans

I have trouble keeping Texas Horse Cripplers alive over here too

 

[Ostrodamus]

My final harvest of the season. I haven't brought myself to put everything to pasture quite yet, as they're still producing a trickle amount. I'm still pulling a handful per week out. This week I will officially kill off the tomato and half of the non-producing squash.

 

[Zigs]

Excellent Crop @Ostrodamus

 

[Meadowlark]

Well done @Ostrodamus !

 

[Zigs]

A fistful of Leaf Beet

 

[Zigs]

Tomatoes are still ripening, not bad for October in the UK



And we're still getting a few Courgettes

 

[Meadowlark]

A fistful of Leaf Beet

I believe that is similar (maybe same) as what I grow every winter called Swiss Chard?

 

[Zigs]

I believe that is similar (maybe same) as what I grow every winter called Swiss Chard?

Similar but not quite the same. I think the seeds they sell as leaf beet are really sugar beet. I've grown both and I can't see the difference.

We were growing Swiss Chard until Tetter's son said that his goats won't eat the stuff Goats will normally eat anthing up to and including car tyres so we dug it all out and composted it. If they won't eat it there must be a damn good reason

 

[Zigs]

I just looked it up @Meadowlark

Spinach beet, sugar beet and chard all come from Sea Beet but chard is considered to be a mutation of Sea Beet. Must admit the stems are more brittle and sweet than leaf beet. Wonder if goats will eat leaf beet now

 

[Tetters]

I don't like Chard at all - it's horrible stuff - not worth the space!

 

[Zigs]

I don't like Chard at all - it's horrible stuff - not worth the space!

I don't like it either, worked on the Town Hall there, horrible place

The Guildhall, Chard - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Zigs]

The staff are still sorting through the tomatoes, they think they've found one with eyes though

 

[Zigs]

The new sowing of Mizuna seems to be doing better in the tunnel than the earlier sowing outside.



As is the Kale, might plant these straight into the ground in the tunnel. I had kept them as replacements for the outside ones but maybe not now.

 

[Meadowlark]

First picking of green beans for this fall...many more to come. With all the heat these have endured it will be interesting to see how they taste. Think I'll go back and rob a few new potatoes to go with them.

@Mike have you had time for a fall garden?

 

[Mike]

First picking of green beans for this fall...many more to come. With all the heat these have endured it will be interesting to see how they taste. Think I'll go back and rob a few new potatoes to go with them.

@Mike have you had time for a fall garden?


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Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to do a lot of work on the garden lately. My youngest being a senior and our oldest moving back home and starting his first year coaching football has us running around like we're mad.

We do have some cabbage in the ground, along with some tomatoes and spinach, but it's looking like the only thing that might make is the spinach. We'll be getting some of that off soon I think. Also, we did manage to transplant our strawberries from the raised bed (tote) into the ground. We're probably about to get a small harvest off those too, it's looking like.

We'll soon, hopefully, start out strawberry stand, which will be a hydroponic stand. Can't wait to get that together and try it out. I'll definitely be posting here with what happens there. From what we've read, we could triple our strawberry harvest this year if it works.