N & C Midwest: September 2024

**Scorpio Rising** 9/1/2024, 7:20 am

Finally feels a little like fall today here, I opened the windows this morning for a bit! Zero rain here still, on a positive note, my yard isn’t growing! But neither is anything else.

Not much planned outside today, will probably water if nothing else. It looks like the potatoes are ready to dig soon. They are in the cold frame, so ready to get that cleared out and amended for fall.

What are you up to!?

JAM23 9/1/2024, 8:09 am

This week was rough with the heat, humidity and lots of watering. It is finally cooler today.

Going to spend some time weeding and just tinkering around.

Dragon beans are coming in strong now as well as peppers. Planted some beets in my cold frame a bit ago. I love having a way to keep a little bit of the garden going just a little longer.

**Scorpio Rising** 9/1/2024, 12:41 pm

JAM23 wrote:This week was rough with the heat, humidity and lots of watering. It is finally cooler today.

Going to spend some time weeding and just tinkering around.

Dragon beans are coming in strong now as well as peppers. Planted some beets in my cold frame a bit ago. I love having a way to keep a little bit of the garden going just a little longer.

Yes, agree! I am sick of the multiple hot days and humidity with no rain! I love my cold frame!

nrstooge 9/1/2024, 2:16 pm

Feels more like fall now - transplanted lettuce and other seedlings. The birds ate my chard seedlings so they must be tasty to them.

I've made both greek salad and caprese salad with the cherry tomatoes from mypatio.

Planning more changes in plantings for next year. I have a hummingbird that visits daily so will make sure to have some flowers

OhioGardener 9/1/2024, 3:38 pm

Removed the rest of the summer squash plant to the compost bin, spread 50# of coffee grounds over the bed, and then added a 3" layer of compost to bring the bin back up to level. That bed is ready for winter since nothing else will be planted this year, unless I decide to plant some Crimson Clover for a cover crop.

Proof that fall is quickly approaching is here since the Autumn Clematis is now in bloom.

**Scorpio Rising** 9/3/2024, 4:24 pm

I think I have some of this growing in my front perennial garden, but I didn’t plant it! I thought it was a honeysuckle of some type…hmm!

OhioGardener 9/3/2024, 4:58 pm

Scorpio Rising wrote:I think I have some of this growing in my front perennial garden, but I didn’t plant it! I thought it was a honeysuckle of some type…hmm!

If if just appeared on its own, it is probably a Japanese Honeysuckle -- we are digging those out all of the time after the birds spread the seeds. But check the leaves to be sure. The Autumn Clematis is a climber, and it it does not have a post or fence to climb on it will just lay on the ground.

These are Autumn Clematis leaves

These are Japanese Honeysuckle Leaves

**Scorpio Rising** 9/4/2024, 9:30 am

This is the first time I’ve seen the plant. I will check the leaves! I had planned to dig all the unwanted vines out!

OhioGardener 9/8/2024, 8:20 am

Our average first frost date is October 15th, but this year we got it over a month early. It is only September 8th. When I got up it was 35ºF, and everything was covered with a white frost. By Wednesday, though, we are supposed to be back up into the low 90's.

**Scorpio Rising** 9/9/2024, 5:07 pm

I still have my houseplants on the porch—will probably bring them in this weekend. The weather has been very unpredictable.

OhioGardener 9/10/2024, 5:47 pm

Harvested the sweet potatoes from the mineral lick tubs today. Got about a bushel of potatoes from the two tubs, and learned that in the future I can't use the white tub for growing potatoes. Good harvest, though.

This is the harvest from the black tub. Some really big potatoes in there, too.

This is the harvest from the white tub, about 2/3rds as many as from the black tub.

The potatoes are curing in the greenhouse for the next couple weeks.

OhioGardener Yesterday at 9:52 am

The severe drought continues, with temps in the low 90's and no rain, but the peppers and tomatoes don't seem to mind.

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