what next

[Mini Horses]

The pumpkins do take a few months to mature, so you should plan that...as well as huge vining but -- great taste and they store ok when hardened for winter.

More melons? Very tasty!
More corn? It will still grow well in heat -- just water it.
Beans that you grow for DRY bean use -- kidney, pinto, etc.

You got started earlier than here but, I look at this once crops are at or nearing "done" -- WHAT do I want more of to eat fresh, or can. The variety you have covers most everything, so I'm thinking along the line of "more of". In your temps it's a little early to plant cole crops but, you can think about them. Some need to be started mid/late summer to mature before a heavy winter -- which some people do have. LOL

 

[Chic Rustler]

what area/climate/conditions/soils do you have?

i'm just getting beans planted (some of them could have gone in a few weeks ago but i've been a bit too busy with other things).

north Texas. Sandy soil. zone 7 I believe. weather can be crazy. it should hit 100s in the next month or so. right now we are having an unseasonably wet and prolonged spring. it won't get cool until Oct. we still have plenty of growing season and I was thinking of planting more root crops and greens around sept to grow threw the winter.

 

[Chic Rustler]

I was going to suggest purple hull peas. I have a cool weather patch that is done now, I need to pull up everything, weed, prepare the soil again and I will plant it in purple hull peas. I think I will can at least some of them this year. Typically, I prefer them frozen, they just taste fresher. I'll can some and we will give it the taste test.

How do you get carrots to grow well for you? I really suck at raising carrots. I would be glad to take pointers from you, maybe a step by step for carrot dummies? LOL

I just grow them in raised beds full of compost. they do ok but it takes forever! slow growing crop for sure

 

[flowerbug]

I was going to suggest purple hull peas. I have a cool weather patch that is done now, I need to pull up everything, weed, prepare the soil again and I will plant it in purple hull peas. I think I will can at least some of them this year. Typically, I prefer them frozen, they just taste fresher. I'll can some and we will give it the taste test.

How do you get carrots to grow well for you? I really suck at raising carrots. I would be glad to take pointers from you, maybe a step by step for carrot dummies? LOL

might be pretty difficult to get them going in sandy soil as they do like fairly even moisture to get sprouted. perhaps the burlap bag trick will work for you. get your seed bed prepped and plant the seeds at the recommended depth and then water them in gently (ahem ), wet down some burlap bags and put those over them. a few times a day check to make sure things are still damp and then at the time when you start expecting sprouts check to see if any are poking up. of course you do have to remove the burlap once you start seeing some sprouts - they'd be funny shaped or hard to harvest growing through burlap...

 

[Chic Rustler]

oh... I forgot I also have
mustard greens
collard greens
sweet corn
beets

 

[CrealCritter]

Zucchini, winter squash. With a bunch of Palmolive Original Green.

 

[Chic Rustler]

oh yeah I got zucchini too.

 

[flowerbug]

turnips are just about played out. the lettuce is bolting. I should habe a fairly large area to plant something in when I clear that stuff out. not sure what I want to plant next.

any good crops to sew in June? that I don't already have going?

what I have:
cucumbers
yellow squash
crookneck squash
acorn squash
butternut squash
tomatoes
peppers
potatoes
green beans
carrots
onions
garlic
melons
herbs

what area/climate/conditions/soils do you have?

i'm just getting beans planted (some of them could have gone in a few weeks ago but i've been a bit too busy with other things).

 

[CrealCritter]

ok, thanks, yeah, any of the cowpeas should like the heat. okra and eggplant are two others that come to mind.

the root crops do best here in cooler weather but Mom basically doesn't like them if they are not potatoes or carrots. i've tried turnips and other things but she doesn't like them enough for me to devote a lot of space to them. i mostly use them as cover crops like the diakon radishes.

she will eat beets but i think it is too late for them and last time we grew them some animal took a shine to them so she was upset by that and doesn't want to grow them again. i like the beet greens along with the beets and also the various chards but Mom hates chards. lol hard to find things she likes. thank goodness she likes beans and peas.

Eggplant is the ONLY plant I use seven dust on else the next day they are eaten up...

 

[Lazy Gardener]

Kale, broccoli, cabbage. More zucchini. Can never have too much of that. And, yes... I'm serious! Sugar snap peas (best wait till cooler weather for them.