Throwing in the towel on Bok Choy

[Woody]

How's everyone's garden going? I haven't put a ton of effort into mine but I have beans, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes and peppers on the go. For the second year in a row I have tried Bok Choy. I wanted to add it to my soups that I make for lunches during the week but it bolts on me every time. I can't get it to grow enough to harvest anything before it flowers. I think I am throwing in the towel.

[katALlabs]

Never tried to grow Bok Choy probably wouldn’t grow down here in the heat.
Our tomatoes, beans and peppers (green & red) did geed this year. It’s been crazy hot down here so we’re close to the end of the growing season with the tomatoes. The peppers and beans are still going good along with the jalapeños and a few different hot peppers varieties.
We’re even trying to grow peanuts in a container just to see what we can get out of them.
Hopefully we’ll get a second chance for tomatoes in September if no hurricanes come and mess everything up.
Oddly enough my cucumbers (10 plants) never produced any but 2 cucumbers and both of them were deformed (probably from bad germination) and had worms.

[Kleb]

I was late getting some things into the ground so nothing ready to eat yet. The weeds are doing really well😑.
I did a quick look in “The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener”, by Niki Jabbour on Bok Choi, or Pak Choi. It is a cool season crop and she suggest planting it directly as early as four weeks before the last spring frost, or if you have a cold frame as much as eight weeks before last frost. If you wanted to try growing a fall crop plant eight weeks before first fall frost.
If you can borrow a copy of her book from the library I recommend it. Information about a lot of crops and techniques for extending your harvest season. I’ve had lettuce on January un a small hoop tunnel.

[Woody]

Never tried to grow Bok Choy probably wouldn’t grow down here in the heat.
Our tomatoes, beans and peppers (green & red) did geed this year. It’s been crazy hot down here so we’re close to the end of the growing season with the tomatoes. The peppers and beans are still going good along with the jalapeños and a few different hot peppers varieties.
We’re even trying to grow peanuts in a container just to see what we can get out of them.
Hopefully we’ll get a second chance for tomatoes in September if no hurricanes come and mess everything up.
Oddly enough my cucumbers (10 plants) never produced any but 2 cucumbers and both of them were deformed (probably from bad germination) and had worms.

You are way ahead of me. My tomatoes, beans and cucumbers are just starting out. I have picked some jalapenos but not many.

I was late getting some things into the ground so nothing ready to eat yet. The weeds are doing really well😑.
I did a quick look in “The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener”, by Niki Jabbour on Bok Choi, or Pak Choi. It is a cool season crop and she suggest planting it directly as early as four weeks before the last spring frost, or if you have a cold frame as much as eight weeks before last frost. If you wanted to try growing a fall crop plant eight weeks before first fall frost.
If you can borrow a copy of her book from the library I recommend it. Information about a lot of crops and techniques for extending your harvest season. I’ve had lettuce on January un a small hoop tunnel.

The weeds here are growing pretty good as well. I read on a site that it will bolt if it's under 10 degrees which is when I planted it. I might try another row next month and see how it goes.

[katALlabs]

Because we’re on the Gulf our season starts mid March and usually ends late July early August because of the heat. Last year we changed I up the way we garden, we went to a raised bed system. It was a lot of work getting there but noticeably far less weeds. We started out by laying cardboard down all over in the garden then built several beds using 2” x 6” PT wood (yes it is now safe to use PT wood did some research on it). Laid them on top of the cardboard and filled them with high quality dirt which was a little expensive IMOP. Then laid shredded wood chips around the rest of the cardboard to make a path around. We added 7 ft poles for the tomatoes and for the string beans and cucumbers did 2 rows of the 2”x 3” garden fencing the comes on a 50ft roll on the third bed. I just attached the fencing with zip ties to the poled and each other.
Here’s a quick picture of the garden.

[Kleb]

Think I’m throwing in the towel on zucchini. Yep, suppose to be easy to grow and everyone tha t grows it needs to sneak onto their neighbour’s porch in the middle of the night to drop off zucchini because of excess. Not me😑. Plant it looks great, little zukes start to form and then they drop off. Stem starts to loo like something is boring into them but I’ve never seen the culprits. What am I doing wrong? I wanted to make zucchini relish, zucchini loaf, cookies, muffins etc. Not happening, unless I sneak into my neighbours gardens and steal some😁.

[amyb]

My tomatoes, cucumbers, basil, and banana peppers have been awesome this year.