There's an old saying that goes you win some you lose some and that couldn't be more true when it comes to something like
Vegetable gardening.
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It's always good to have you here. So we're towards the end of September
down here in South Georgia in zone 8b and
We're kind of holding off on our cool weather crops because it's just been hot
I mean really really hot for the end of September
we did have a little cool spell last week where we
Stayed below 90 for the most part but this week's supposed to get back up
97-98 which is just really hot and too hot for most of your cool weather crops. It's also been really dry
So we've been having to irrigate and water a lot and even do some overhead watering
Just to cool the leaves off a bit and today I want to show you how I've won
Some and how I've lost some so far
Late summer - early fall with some of my warm weather crops that I like to plant for fall.
Let's start off with the lost first so on one of our previous two-minute tips, probably a month or so ago
We showed you how we planted some Kentucky wonder pole beans
And the goal was to go ahead and get those up and going and by the time it gets cool
They won't be dropping blooms
Weather will be just nice and right and we'll have a nice fall crop of pole beans, and I've done this
Several times in the past planting them, you know
early September - late
August and usually the weather cooperates and it turns out it works out just right
But the weather doesn't always cooperate. Like I said, it's been hotter than usual towards the end of September
So let me show you what happened
So this is the row we planted about a 60-foot row of these Kentucky wonder pole beans and I got really good germination
Everything came up really nice and everything was looking really good
Until those really hot temperatures just hung around way too long as you can see
There's only a few of these plants that have actually thrived and started climbing up the trellis
The rest of them are looking pretty pitiful
Or either they're just dead
This heat we've had has also caused a lot of disease problems and these guys look down here
See all that rust on those leaves
That's not good. And usually that is
Accelerated by the heat. We've been having so we've got a few of them that are climbing up the trellis here
Really
Nothing to speak of pretty poor turnout here
Considering how good a germination we got how good these things were looking
Just a few weeks ago
Now I'm not gonna wait around on these pole beans to turn around and do something miraculous. I think they're pretty much toast
So I'm going to pull this trellis up and I might plant me some more in another spot
One would think as hot as it's been being that it means we're gonna have a later frost this year
We don't know that for sure for all we know it could turn around and get cold in early November
But I'd like to think that this warm weather later in September means we'll have a later frost
So I'll probably pick me another spot
And try it again see if I can still get a fall crop of pole beans in
Here but it's not worth saving these guys and it's not to say that I won't ever plant pole beans at the same time
I did this year in another following year, you know, it's not usual to get this hot towards the end of September
So we'll always take that chance. It's worth taking that chance because when it does pay off man, it is super super rewarding.
So I showed you our loss or the bad news
Now it's time for the good news or the win at least so far this fall
So on the same morning that I planted that row of Kentucky wonder pole beans. I also planted me
another row of these
wonderful
Stonewall cucumbers, these are gynoecious variety, which means they produce only female flowers and then you have a couple
polonizers in there which is an OP variety that provides the male flowers
So those female flowers can get pollinated and these cucumbers are looking fabulous
So far we're getting little cucumbers to come on there. I'll show you that in just a minute now
These have got the same treatment as those pole beans back there
Like I said, they were planted at the same time
But for some reason these cucumbers are just thriving whereas the pole beans are not now
We do have a little bit of a pest issue here that we're gonna have to deal with until it gets cold
You see all those little white specks on those leaves right there. Those are white fly eggs.
September is cotton defoliating and cotton harvesting season
Around South Georgia and even yesterday there was a big airplane flying over here spraying the cotton
defoliant on some of those fields and when they do that man
it just gets these white flies stirred up and they'll get stirred up and they'll just
Flock to these vegetable crops like we have right here
So we've had to start us a little spray program put some horticultural oil on them
We also use BT to take care of any pickle worms. We might have but
Started a pretty regular spray program. We can't eliminate these white flies completely
But with the hort oil we can at least try to knock them back a little bit
So they don't affect our crops too much. The bees have been working these blooms pretty hard in the morning
I like to come out here and just watch them do their thing and we've got cucumbers already coming on there
You can see that little one right there. That's about
I don't know about four or five inches long a couple days that guy will be ready to harvest
And there's lots of them on here lots of tiny little small cucumbers, there's another one right there
If we go down here I think there's a couple more that are even closer
Those right there are not far at all, they're probably a day or so off
So good production coming along here, and it won't be long before we'll be picking
buckets and buckets and buckets
About every other day of these nice slicing cucumbers. So you win some and you lose some
But just because you lose some doesn't mean you should ever give up or quit taking chances
Gardening is a variable thing because the weather's variable and we have no control over it. We also really have no idea
What it's going to be from week to week, but all we can do is try so we go out here
We take chances we plant stuff as soon as we think we can plant it. Sometimes it works out wonderfully
like these cucumbers
sometimes
It's just a failure like these beans, but that's just gardening. That's just how it works
We're gonna keep plugging along. We're going to keep planting stuff
We're going to take care of it the best we can and we're going to enjoy what we harvest from the garden
If you have any failure so far this year
Let me know what those are and I would also love to hear about your successes
That's the main point we should focus on here. Hope you enjoyed this video. We'll see you next time.