Some of the things in your fall garden can be planted now. Most of the greens will be fine. Cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts need for the soil to be around 70 degrees or less to get reliable germination. If they are being planted, it should be plants instead of seeds. Onions should wait a couple more months.
Beans, okra, egg plants and peppers should bear well until the 1st frost. Tomatoes are probably slacking off a little. Lots of water and a liberal side dressing of compost and organic fertilizer will stretch the season on them until frost, but with a reduced yield. Squash and cucumbers from the 1st planting are on their last leg if they haven’t already given up. The later planting will take over. The problem with the later planting is that the pests that like the cucurbits are well established. They may wipe out the tender young plants unless they are controlled early.
The main pests to watch for are cucumber beetles, pickle worms, stink bugs and other bugs from these families. BT will control the pickle worms. Stink bugs and other members of this group need to be picked off by hand. Neem oil will help some, but not 100%.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
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