Hi Garden926,
I have two huge zucchini plants, a cucumber with lots of flowers but no fruit yet, two tomato plants. One has huge green tomatoes on it. I can't wait until they turn red!! I have red and yellow bell pepper plants. Lots of chives, swiss chard, arugula (recently bolted), lots of parsely, and I have almost all the other herbs.I also have purslane which is technically a weed, but it's highly nutritious. It has the most omega-3s of any plant source and lots of vitamin E, too. Good stuff. I have some small jalapeno plants. They are still seedlings. A rasberry and a blackberry bush in pots, neither of which is producing food yet. I have one kale plant and some butter lettuce plants. I also have a black mission fig tree and a small lemon tree. I love gardening!!!
I've been composting by digging a ditch and putting the compost in and covering it with dirt. It's simple and easy.
I grateful for the space I have. I have no where near 1/2 an acre like you have, but I do have ample space.

Oh yeah, Garden926, being new to gardening, I have never heard of the "3 sisters". Why do people grow them together??

Your University Extension office can sell you a planting guide. It will give you the dates when to plant a particular veggie.

From what I've read about the three sisters is that you plant them in small (about 4x4) beds with paths between them. The beans grow up the cornstalks, and the squash smothers out the weeds.

MissMel. sounds like you have a lot. I tried seiss chard last year. Tried cilantro last year didn't do very good.
That purslane which is nutritious. maybe I should look for some in the yard. spent the first part of the week on the couch. I have low Blood pressure problem.. under 100. then too I was reading on www.revolutionhealth.com
to drink more water, wear suppose hose (yuk) getting them on in this heat. then I don't want to drink watercause having to pull up and down all day. anyway enough of that.
I have black berries too./ just starting to produce this year. Hope I can keep the birds away. I don't have netting on them they are about 8 or 9 feet growing up. thought about looking for some this red tape. you attach to a stick and it fly's in the wind.
Talk again
Garden

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Originally posted by MissMel:
Garden 926, happy gardening to you to?? What are you growing?
bill, I've gone ahead and planted two things, pumpkin and yellow squash. If they have a short growing season, so be it. Cold weather tomatoes, huh? I didn't know about those. You say you got them from CSFU? Does CSFU have a lot of plants?

Yes,I tried to obtain some hot weather ones this year.

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Monster Tomato and Pepper Plant Sale March 14-16,2008

1 Saint Pierre (I) Mid Red Heirloom France. Large, Flavorful, excellent producer even in poor soil. Wonderful flavor.

2 Tomande VFFNT (I) Italy Mid Red Hybrid Large semi-flatten fruit. Excellent flavor and great plant for hot weather.

3 Moon's Super Bush Early Red Heirloom Solid rich, red tomatoes that are big and beefy.
Excellent slicer.

4 Sunmaster VFFA (D) Mid Red Hybrid Heat tolerant plants with good sugar, acid balance. 7 to 8 oz fruit is firm, smooth.

5 Arkansas Traveler (I) Late Red Heirloom Southern heirloom that produces 6 to 8 ounce fruits. Good for hot weather.

6 Viva Italia VFFNA (D) Mid Red Hybrid Italian pear shaped fruit w/ natural sugar flavor. Sets well in heat. Disease resistant.

7 Japanese Black Trifele Mid Black Heirloom Excellent flavor from a very rare tomato. Smooth fruit with few defects. Superior.

"Next Year"
- Sun Chaser VFFA (D) Mid Red Hybrid Heat tolerant variety able to set fruit in tough conditions. Good flavor, good quality.
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My "Bush Beefsteak" is in it's third consecutive year "cold weather/perennial" tomato ??
I'm trying to root this tomato cutting in water. This tomato is a "hybrid" ---not a "open polinated or heirloom"---. The seeds from this plant is questionable/not true to it's parent.
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I just finished planting some "long cucumbers" SuhYu-type seedlings.
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Trying to finish planting some Burpee's Golden Zuchinni seedlings plants.
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My plums are finishing up.
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Good Luck on your veggies.
bill in socal

I guess Maine is pretty far removed from Southern CA but I am now planting the last of the fall crops here, the last of the beans and peas and cabbages. For practical experience, listen to Jennifer and others from your area.

Even here in the north, temperature and frost is not always the final determination as to last planting date. Even when we can keep a tropical temperature all year, as in a greehouse, our plants still react to the shorter days, as I suppose they would in your neck of the woods.

Wayne

It is never too late to grow anything from seed, it just depends on what and where. All of us could, if we wanted to expend the effort could grow many things even inside, lettuces, tomatoes, peppers, etc. and in many places your can do that outside, all year around. There are many farmers around here adapting to greenhouse growing so they have "stuff" to sell all winter because many of us want that locally grown food instead of the imported food.