Advice need on Late July planting.

[Tesha]

Hello everyone,

Our zucchini plants have succumbed to the nasty little squash vine borers,
and have left a nice big space in a very fertile little garden empty, and it's
only the end of July. This has been the warmest summer on record here and
we haven't been limited on how much we can water so.....


What can I plant in zone 5/6 now that will have a chance of being productive
by the end of the season, like.... middle October?

Suggestions?

[bvar22]

1. Hi.

We are in Zone 7, West Central Arkansas.
We also lost out Zucchini to Vine Borers, and replanted yesterday.
We have never tried this before, but what is there to lose?

We are also replanting tomatoes from cuttings,
cantaloupes from seed, and more Bush Beans, Field Peas, and Black Beans.

Instead of trying to nurse along old, failing Tomatoes, we are planting new plants from cuttings, hoping to squeeze in a new crop before frost.

We have planted Field Peas and Black Beans in July in the past, and they do extremely well.... Green Manure properties, great rotational crop, heat resistant, drought resistant, pest resistant, and the beans are tasty and easy to preserve for Winter.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=246x9836

Good Luck!

[beac]

2. I just re-potted the first of my cuttings (I started them in 1 qt, nursery pots)

yesterday. Even though I'd made cuttings of the grape tomatoes at the beginning of July, I decided to give those away and pot up the Black Cherry cutting. I took that cutting on 7/10 and when I slipped it out of the pot, it had lots of nice roots looping around. I didn't bury it any further since it's getting a late start and I want it to start fruiting ASAP.

Good luck with your cuttings. I'm guessing you could just plop them right in the ground as long as you can shade them well while they get established.

[Tesha]

3. thanks for the link...

and beautiful photos!

I do have some bush beans started, but the darn varmints are lovin' them, even after I
sprayed them with this really stinky natural repellant - rotten eggs and all - and
there out the thinking I'm seasoning it for them!!!

and we've got one spot that won't grow a darned thing - and I finally found out why.
The birds use is as a bathing spot! Beautiful, sunny spot - great soil - and I'm bathing birds in it!


Spinach maybe? Kale?

[bvar22]

4. Spinach, Kale, Radish, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Peas, Lettuces, Onion, Garlic....

still too hot here.
We are waiting until late August/Early Sept for those.

YMMV...We're still learning.
This is our 4th season in this area and we are still finding out what works and doesn't work.
We finally started writing all this stuff down, and doing a more detailed, paper/pencil/calendar/almanac planning of our garden activity.

Most people in this area still do a one crop/year garden, but we see real possibility for 2 crops with many things.

It hasn't been a good year here...too hot, almost no rain, lots of bad bugs.
I had planned on doing a photo essay of local veggie gardens this year, but its very ugly out there.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

5. I just planted some sprouting potatoes

and a few onion sets that didn't make it into the soaking wet ground earlier in the summer. By October will have some nice potatoes to store and onions to fry with them!