help name the plant

[tito_santiago]

Hi I got a little garden at our towns community garden I know name of some that I have others no idea can you guys and gals tell me what they are thank you

 

[Beth_B]

Looks like several varieties of lettuce that reseeded from last year to me.
Welcome, and whereabouts do you live? Or what's your USDA zone?

 

[Chuck]

Hi I got a little garden at our towns community garden I know name of some that I have others no idea can you guys and gals tell me what they are thank you

I think what happened is that someone planted a lettuce/spinach blend. That large leafed plant looks like large flat leafed spinach and most of the other plants looks like bibb lettuce, leaf lettuce and smaller varieties of other spinach

 

[tito_santiago]

This is how it's stands today any thing I should do to make it better I'm a rookie left to right sweet banana peppers, green and red cabbage, rosemary, Italian leaf parsley, lettuce or spinch the type I don't know in the back are fantastic tomatoes and behind those I don't know, I'm in central mi.

 

[Chuck]

This is how it's stands today any thing I should do to make it better I'm a rookie left to right sweet banana peppers, green and red cabbage, rosemary, Italian leaf parsley, lettuce or spinch the type I don't know in the back are fantastic tomatoes and behind those I don't know, I'm in central mi.

From the pic it appears that the planting box is 4'x4'. Fantastic tomatoes are an indeterminate plant which means they will get very large. They should be between 2 1/2'-3' apart. The cabbage a minimum of 1 1/2' apart, the banana peppers at least a foot apart. You are WAAAAY too crowded, but it is what it is. The plants will overgrow each other, shading each other thus reducing sunlight and growth leading to leggy plants and reduced or non-existing production. Even more, they will restrict ventilation or air flow and this will lead to fungal problems. I am saying this in order for you to know what to expect and to help with next years garden. There are 2 things you can do. Leave it like it is or take most of the plants out. You can take the rosemary out and put it into a container and grow it there as it is a perennial. As for the spinach and lettuce it will be harvestable shortly and you will be thinning it out as you use it. You can also transplant most of the other plants into containers like 5 gallon buckets. Sorry to rain on your parade but any gardener who has not made mistakes has never had a garden. We all had to start somewhere

 

[tito_santiago]

From the pic it appears that the planting box is 4'x4'. Fantastic tomatoes are an indeterminate plant which means they will get very large. They should be between 2 1/2'-3' apart. The cabbage a minimum of 1 1/2' apart, the banana peppers at least a foot apart. You are WAAAAY too crowded, but it is what it is. The plants will overgrow each other, shading each other thus reducing sunlight and growth leading to leggy plants and reduced or non-existing production. Even more, they will restrict ventilation or air flow and this will lead to fungal problems. I am saying this in order for you to know what to expect and to help with next years garden. There are 2 things you can do. Leave it like it is or take most of the plants out. You can take the rosemary out and put it into a container and grow it there as it is a perennial. As for the spinach and lettuce it will be harvestable shortly and you will be thinning it out as you use it. You can also transplant most of the other plants into containers like 5 gallon buckets. Sorry to rain on your parade but any gardener who has not made mistakes has never had a garden. We all had to start somewhere

Not raining on my parade as I said I'm a rookie lol I knew I should have went with a bigger box now would the cabbage ones do OK in 5 gallon buckets or the peppers? I'll be looking for some buckets and make some room for the rest

 

[Corzhens]

It looks like the Chinese pechay which we cook by stir fry together with Chinese suasage. I has a Chinese name but I cannot remember since I am not fond of that. But the flowers look the same as that Chinese pechay I am saying. It can also be used in cooking Chinese noodles.

 

[Chuck]

Not raining on my parade as I said I'm a rookie lol I knew I should have went with a bigger box now would the cabbage ones do OK in 5 gallon buckets or the peppers? I'll be looking for some buckets and make some room for the rest

Cabbage will do fine in a 5 gallon bucket, in fact everything will. Having said that. I am unfamiliar with your climate, how hot it gets, when it gets hot, when your first frost is etc. Cabbage is a cool weather crop and so is the spinach and lettuce. Here is what I would do. I would transplant everything into 5 gallon buckets except the tomatoes. With the tomatoes I would move them, one to each corner of the box 1' in and use stakes to hold them up. Use those little cages for the peppers. Leave the lettuce and spinach alone as you will be eating them shortly.

 

[tito_santiago]

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Cabbage will do fine in a 5 gallon bucket, in fact everything will. Having said that. I am unfamiliar with your climate, how hot it gets, when it gets hot, when your first frost is etc. Cabbage is a cool weather crop and so is the spinach and lettuce. Here is what I would do. I would transplant everything into 5 gallon buckets except the tomatoes. With the tomatoes I would move them, one to each corner of the box 1' in and use stakes to hold them up. Use those little cages for the peppers. Leave the lettuce and spinach alone as you will be eating them shortly.

If I can get another box same size how would you arrange the cabbages and peppers and I'm not so sure about when our first frost is and all that and as of now the hottest its gotten is in the 80° and how would I go about harvesting the lettuce, spinach ( I know not to just rip up from the roots lol ) thanks for the advice I certainly will be applying all this to any future gardening I do everything is all in there as is now because didn't have chance to look up info box was donated as was the plants had to hurry and jump on it or some one else would have.

 

[Chuck]

Cabbages get to be fairly big plants and 1 1/2"minimum between them so that would be a maximum of 5 per 4x4 box. On the peppers you can crowd them a little and do ok at 1 ft spacing but 1 1/2 ft is better, so that would be 12 pepper plants started 6" from the end of the box. On harvesting the lettuce. Your lettuce and the other leafy vegs appear to be planted too close together too. Allow about 2" for each plant and when they start to really grow you might have to remove an entire plant, especially the bibb lettuce because that is how you harvest it. On the stuff that looks like large leaf spinach you can harvest it one leaf at a time if desired. It might not be spinach as another poster has said. It also looks like Bok Choy but what ever it is you can still harvest it one leaf at a time. The only thing you don't harvest one leaf at a time is heading, semi-heading and bibb lettuce, that is unless you don't care if it makes a head or not. You will be able to tell which is which as it matures a little more

 

[tito_santiago]

Cabbages get to be fairly big plants and 1 1/2"minimum between them so that would be a maximum of 5 per 4x4 box. On the peppers you can crowd them a little and do ok at 1 ft spacing but 1 1/2 ft is better, so that would be 12 pepper plants started 6" from the end of the box. On harvesting the lettuce. Your lettuce and the other leafy vegs appear to be planted too close together too. Allow about 2" for each plant and when they start to really grow you might have to remove an entire plant, especially the bibb lettuce because that is how you harvest it. On the stuff that looks like large leaf spinach you can harvest it one leaf at a time if desired. It might not be spinach as another poster has said. It also looks like Bok Choy but what ever it is you can still harvest it one leaf at a time. The only thing you don't harvest one leaf at a time is heading, semi-heading and bibb lettuce, that is unless you don't care if it makes a head or not. You will be able to tell which is which as it matures a little more

Thanks on the info I will try to get another box or at least the buckets and will post an update when I do