I now have 5 out of 6 of the rectangular planters filled with fall veggies- Bok Choy, Lettuce, Kale and Swiss Chard. I think they're looking quite good, although today it's like, 90+ and sunny and humid and everything is looking a little limp and sad, including me. The Swiss Chard looks really nice, and the first set of lettuce is pretty full, but not very green, for some reason. When it's cooler, I'm going to cut back a lot, and see how it comes back. I did that a few weeks ago and made a teeny tiny salad for myself, but now the Romaine are starting to form little heads.
I think next year I could do the 3 big planters with something fast, like lettuce and radishes, and then it will be all finished by May, when I would put in the Green Beans. I don't think I would even need to clean the plants out, I would just plant the beans in there near the end of April, when the lettuce should be finishing, and they'll just succession-grow themselves.
At Home Depot, I bought some Coreopsis, which were 3 for $12, and I'd been thinking about putting them in the sad bed. Right now the grasses are so huge I feel weird about putting anything in there. But I will. I would do it today if it wasn't disgusting outside. I also got a new Hibiscus from Terrain, because it was on sale, and put it in a bigger pot. Yet another plant I can bring in over the winter.
I'm starting to pull off any new flowers on the tomato. It's not that we don't have time to get them ripened up, but I am sick of the ugly plant. And I want to clear out some space for the next round of planting. I want to get more Kale up in there.
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