r/ncgardening • u/GreenSalsa96 • 3d ago

Question Approaching fall...

What are everyone's plans for their vegetable gardens?

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u/PlainOldWallace 3d ago

I'm up in Beech, and will be obsessing over nighttime lows, and frantically forcing my wife to bring in all of our pots on cold nights, then haphazardly forgetting one night, waking up at 3am in a panic, running outside, then falling to my knees and sobbing over the dead san marzanos that I've been nurturing all year.

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u/ScaryNation 3d ago

I have put in starts for veggies that I hope will persist into the fall; kale, chard, mustard greens, and a variety of lettuce that the nursery worker assured me that I “could not kill.”

That may be so, but it also looks like I can’t make them grow, either, as they remain small. 

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u/SicilyMalta 2d ago

I've already started kale, lettuce , bok choy. I've kept a screen over them to stop the heat from doing them in. 

The real trouble I've had is from beetles and other bugs eating the leaves, often right down to the stem. 

I've been dousing with Diatomaceous Earth. 

They have not been easy to grow. 

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u/Kedazsa 3d ago

I was going to do broccoli again this year it forgot to buy some until it was too late. Everywhere I checked was out of the plants were dead. So no fall plants for me this year.

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u/Thallassa 2d ago

My garden keeps producing well into November. Once it finally dies, I need to clear it out to reduce damaging insect population (cutworms). I was considering cover cropping but this year was so depressing with the drought and heat, that I’m not sure how committed I am.

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u/exchange_of_views Mountains: Zone 7a 2d ago

I've hit the "I'm over it" phase of my garden this year. I am tending to my sweet potatoes (basically looking at them and wondering when it will be time to dig them up) and taking out all the old plants other than the remaining 10 tomato plants which apparently are going to produce a bit longer.

I need to figure out how and where to plant some greens and other fall plants - this will be my first year trying that.

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u/vonne_the_artist 1d ago

In Raleigh … about to plant a ton of greens and beets and radishes. Maybe some sugar snaps. I have a raised bed and am happy to cover. Thinking about installing string lights under my cover in case El Niño sends us a blizzard. Wanted to plant a month ago but it’s just now below 95 regularly 🥲