Doris wrote:stephgouv wrote:Oufff that much !?
At home I think it's too late in mid-August to produce because we feel that the weather is declining and suddenly the vegetables are "on the spot".
it all depends on the particular situation, I try like this because two years in a row I made the same observation: following hot weather more prolonged dryness (more marked in 2019 than in 2018) I had plants that during the summer have little, if any, given, and which in mid-August, when the conditions were better, were exhausted. From the same vegetable I had seedlings in spontaneous emergence or planted very late, which started to produce in early August, and which gave a satisfactory harvest, in 2018 until October 2019 (date of the first frost) and in XNUMX until early November. My bet is therefore precisely that from the second ten August, even if it can still be very hot, in my sector the weather begins to change: the nights are cooler, the air becomes more breathable, and many other things. If I have plants that are reaching maturity at this time, and that are in good shape, I actually extend my season. But with you it's certainly not the same at all, and you have to space less.
in the north and I am at the Belgian border, we have a more "regular" weather, it rises less in high temperature and it also goes down less low, with peaks in one direction as in the other
so August can start to be wetter than elsewhere and sometimes no frost before November, so this is what I will put in place this year, a winter cover doubled with a greenhouse tarp, and thus finished fear of frost below -2 or even -3 ° C which will really lengthen the season
at home Doris it's drought plus very draining soil that will make you fall flat in summer