Carrots can go in now. Spinach is a maybe though I usually plant it in September and it has always overwintered for me without mulch. Generally I just let the late spinach planting alone and wait until spring to start harvesting. I did plant a short row of spinach the other day that I might transfer to a coldframe in October.

Never had much luck with fall peas but I think now would be a good time. You might look for a spot that gets some afternoon shade.

I imagine that the peas I planted a week ago are up today, Cat'.

I was out there and forgot to look. I'll check tomorrow and may post a picture.

The last week of July has been my time to plant snow peas these last several years. I always get a few pods but the vines will slow to a stop if it begins to freeze. A twice-a-week frost in September will just put them in suspended animation. Still, I always have a few pods to enjoy and will harvest the tendrils with their flowers for salad or stir-fry.

I know that the bok choy has sprouted in the same bed with the peas. I will be moving those and they really are my best fall crop. If you like turnip greens, you might want to try those also. All one family - turnips and bok choy.

Steve

I'd have to do a real closeup for you to see the peas, Cat'! They are just coming up (and still have that green "fingernail paring" look ;o). Oh, and the tiny green plants there in the middle -- those are the bok choy. I'll get them spread out in the garden when they can be moved. I doubt if under the peas will be a good location for any of them.

This is the first time I've built a little trellis for the fall peas. I'll have to get some string on it. They hardly grow tall enuf for a trellis.

This was my potato bed. I'm about half way down it in my harvesting. As I dig the potatoes, I bury "compostables" behind me. That is what these things are growing on! There's about 8" of soil on top of green material. I don't remember planting the peas on the re-purposed potato bed but the bok choy does just fine in this kind of setting.

The soil will have to settle a little more and the dirt (& rocks) in the path on either side can be used for leveling.

Steve

So I did get 3 rows of peas out August 7th I think it was. They are already poking their little heads up! I hope they grow fast and I get a fall crop!

We planted peas and beans on 7/27 and they are both coming up. I heard that's too early, but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be afraid of - if something goes crazy, I can always plant more seeds, right?

We planted more beets this week.

Soon I will put in a batch of fall spinach and maybe some lettuce. We'll have room after we eat more of the gorgeous beets that we planted 3/31. We had leaf miners briefly bothering our spinach, beets and chard during spring and earlier this summer but they seem to be done.

GLiz, I suspect you will find your 7/27 peas just about right.

This is what Territorial Seed Co. says about Oregon Sugar Pod II Peas (what I'm usually sowing at that same time: "70 days spring sown. 250 days fall sown." Okay, they are in mild, maritime Oregon. I can't even get Austrian Winter peas to survive but anyway . . .

What is happening in Boulder 70 days from 7/27? By the way, that would be October 5th . . . That would be just past the average 1st frost date for my garden. 7/27 is too early? I don't think so.

Steve