Mid Summer Planting

Last year I got a copy of Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long which is an excellent book, but I got it too late in the year to actually do anything with it.

This year, the very rainy June knocked out a few plants with root rot and the peas and the lettuce, both of which are early season varieties, are drying up and going to seed leaving me with a decent sized empty space.

Seeds of Change had some good suggestions on their web site for late season planting and I dug out my seed box looking for varieties that I had on hand that would be ready in 60 days or so. I planted pole beans, swiss chard, and some summer squash and all have sprouted very quickly. I also transplanted some Ramapo tomatoes which had not been doing too well in pots on the patio and they have almost doubled in size in just one week.