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Garden Notes: September 2024

Thursday, September 26, 2024 0:05

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Rainfall

1st: 0.28″
2nd: 0.01″
12th: 0.18″ (Francine)
17th: 0.8″ (Eight)
18th: 0.15″
24th: 3.0″
25th: 0.65+”
Total so far: 5.07 inches

Temperature

range of nighttime lows: 54 to 71°F (12 to 22°C)
range of daytime highs: 75 to 91°F (24 to 33°C)

Garden Notes

The garden is definitely winding down.
Several items on my harvest list are “last ones” status
We’re getting a second flush of green beans
I’ve been clearing out spent summer beds for the fall garden.

Planted:

turnips
daikons
kale
lettuce
carrots
parsnips
garlic
Italian leaf cabbage
collards
winter wheat

Harvested

cherry tomatoes
slicing tomatoes (the last few)
okra
green beans
yamberries
hopniss
pears
black turtle beans
oregano
rosemary
basil
muscadines
field corn
peppers
summer squash

Preserved

green beans, canned
tomatoes, canned as sauce
pears, as wine
muscadines, frozen

Photos

typical September picking bucket

typical September salad: cherry tomatoes, green pepper, chopped squash

About those squash. I thought I had summer squash growing in the pasture, but it turns out the seed was actually sweet potato squash, a winter variety. These are excellent keepers, but now we know that the small immature ones make an excellent substitute for summer squash (which doesn’t grow well for me). We’ve been eating them sauteed, roasted, in salads, and I canned some for a quick winter veggie. Also . . .

when midsize, they make excellent stuffed squash.

Maturing sweet potato squash, to be picked soon for pantry storage

The corn is done, but the stalks still make excellent bean poles.

My peppers just puttered along all summer, and have finally decided to produce.

Katy spotted snoozing in the sweet potatoes

sweet potato flowers

Jing okra flowers. The buds are pink, but they bloom yellow.

Daikons for the fall garden. They’ll take frost and a light
freeze, but don’t like a hard freeze. But they store well.

We really like daikons. They grow well for us and the small young roots can be eaten like radishes. The young leaves are tasty in salads. I use both mature roots and leaves in my kimchi. (More in this post, Experimenting With Daikons.) And of course, the goats will eat them at any stage.

Turnips for the fall garden. Purple Tops
are our hardiest winter root crop.

Lots of rain now, making up for our dry spell earlier. It’s welcome!

How about your garden? Anyone still getting anything?

by Leigh at http://www.5acresandadream.com

Source: https://www.5acresandadream.com/2024/09/garden-notes-september-2024.html

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