Re: N&C Midwest: September 2022

OhioGardener 9/15/2022, 7:31 pm

Scorpio Rising wrote: Next year! I know….dreaming

No garden is ever as good as the one I am going to have next year! Very Happy

JAM23 9/15/2022, 7:42 pm

OhioGardener wrote:
Scorpio Rising wrote: Next year! I know….dreaming

No garden is ever as good as the one I am going to have next year!

i love this OhioGardener! So true!

JAM23 9/19/2022, 7:32 am

This weekend I had to pull my cucumber, summer squash and fall peas. My fall peas had a lot of powdery mildew on them (which is something I didn't know could happen to peas). I did get a few pickings from them so I am taking this as a lesson learned and I will try again next fall!

My jalapeno and serrano are still going, as well as, my cherry sized tomatoes and pole beans. Lettuce looks good too!

Parsley has been OUT OF CONTROL this year in my garden. I already have two bags of it in the freezer and made some parsley pesto this weekend and froze it in an ice cube tray. Might have to do that again (a few more times) to use up all the parsley! Freezer is getting quite full!

Butternut squash still looks good although the leaves look terrible. I read that I need to wait until the stems turn brown before harvesting, so I am patiently waiting (maybe) for that to happen. Hopefully soon! LOL

OhioGardener 9/20/2022, 2:38 pm

Today I shut down the drip irrigation system and winterized it. Cleaned off a couple beds a mulched them with wheat straw for the winter. Still harvesting a lot of peppers, kale, chard, lettuce, spinach, zucchini, and pole beans. The tomatoes are about done, a few more to ripen and they'll be finished. Fall is in the air...

OhioGardener 9/25/2022, 4:07 pm

The tomatoes are slowing down, but the lettuce is loving the cool nights we've been having. We're having highs in the 70's during the day, and lows in the 40's at night. Perfect weather for the lettuce, kale, chard, and other cool weather vegetables.

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JAM23 9/26/2022, 6:17 pm

Sooooo.....the overnight temperature around here could dip as low as 39 degrees this week. I am concerned about my buttternut squash. Should I harvest them just in case it freezes?? The stems are somewhat brown and I think they might be ready??

Thoughts? Thanks!

OhioGardener 9/27/2022, 8:20 am

JAM23 wrote:Sooooo.....the overnight temperature around here could dip as low as 39 degrees this week. I am concerned about my buttternut squash. Should I harvest them just in case it freezes?? The stems are somewhat brown and I think they might be ready??

You can probably wait a while to pick the Butternut if you want to. The plants should start turning yellow and dying back. 39ºF won't be cold enough to hurt the squash. But, if the Butternut squash have turned tan or light brown they can be harvested. Ensure you keep as much of the stem on the squash as possible in order for them to store as long as possible. I often cut the squash vine off of the squash stem so that the entire stem stays on the squash.

OhioGardener 9/27/2022, 4:19 pm

Pulled the rest of the Danvers carrots today so that I could start preparing that bed for the winter. Still have a lot of Kyoto Red Carrots growing in another bed, but they are a good winter carrot and can stay in the bed until well into December.

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OhioGardener 9/29/2022, 5:50 pm

Prepared 3 of the 7 beds for winter. Cleaned them off, topped off with 2" of compost, and then topped with wheat straw for the winter. The beds will be an earthworm feast tonight! Very Happy

Had planned on getting 4 beds done, but other work got in the way. Three of the beds still have cool weather crops in them, so they won't be ready to winterize until after we start getting frost.

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JAM23 9/29/2022, 5:57 pm

Nice! I am going to try and get some of that done this weekend along with planting some garlic. We had a low of 36 degrees last night, so I need to get going on winterizing the garden.

**sanderson** 9/29/2022, 6:14 pm

Really nice! Thank you for sharing what a good, winterized bed looks like.

OhioGardener 9/30/2022, 8:31 am

sanderson wrote:Really nice! Thank you for sharing what a good, winterized bed looks like.

One of my favorite sayings on gardening is, "Planning on what I can do with this garden next year is the best thing I can do for it this year."

OhioGardener 10/1/2022, 4:56 pm

Finished up winterizing the 4th bed. Added a couple inches of compost to bring the soil level back up, and then topped off with wheat straw to protect it from the winter blasts. The arbor at the back of the bed still has pole beans growing on it, and we are still harvesting beans from them. But, they will soon be at the end of their season, too.

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