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Post by grungy on Aug 5, 2008 13:36:42 GMT -5
Just love us, Mike. Just like we do you guys.
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Post by canadamike on Aug 5, 2008 15:54:41 GMT -5
We do my dear, we do
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Post by Jim on Aug 5, 2008 20:48:09 GMT -5
are there any other cold hardy greens that I could still grow this year?
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Post by canadamike on Aug 5, 2008 21:17:50 GMT -5
spinach and winter lettuces. maybe some leaf if you are ready to cover them, peas, early ones, cabbages, like january king, I seed carrots this week too, with the warm octobers we get now, all I can risk is 1$ of seeds
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Post by lavandulagirl on Aug 5, 2008 22:23:10 GMT -5
Kale, mustards, broccoli, brussels sprouts. Think of it this way, CB... grow stuff you want for it's leaves or immature flowers, not for it's fruit. A lot of these will stand up to the cold and even snow quite well. Carrots, too, like Michel said. Also, radish, and parsnip, and beets. Those french breakfast radishes are great, and they mature in less than 30 days, I think.
Don't forget, too, you can seed your onions and garlic in the fall as well... you just won't get them til next year.
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Post by canadamike on Aug 5, 2008 23:15:53 GMT -5
Lav, I was considering sowing my onions later this fall, so they can just get their roots started, but I am very much afraid of weeding problems in the spring. Have you ever done it? I start threm in February usually for a head start, wintersowing them is an idea I like. Are they big enough to fend for themselves in the spring? Weeding can be very erratic depending on the conditions of the soil or the weather...
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Post by Tom Akers on Aug 6, 2008 0:59:08 GMT -5
Let me just add that my wife has never even tasted ANY chard, no matter what color. She doesn't do greens, only broccoli, and it better not be purple. Over the years I have grown all types of greens and I like most of them, but if I want them cooked by my wife, they must be red.  WTF?  Happy Gardening, Tom |
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Post by lavandulagirl on Aug 6, 2008 8:20:46 GMT -5
Tom - that's funny that she won't cook green greens... you know, though, that we wimmenfolk like to mess with your heads. ;D
Michel - I have had good luck with fall sown onions, but my zones have been warmer than yours. To keep the weeds down, I use rotted straw mulch between the onion rows.
Here's a link to Trudi's site... I'm pretty sure she has a list somewhere on there of good varieties of wintersown plants for different zones. www.wintersown.org/
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Post by canadamike on Aug 6, 2008 13:42:10 GMT -5
I will contact Trudi. I think I can't resist ;D
In between the rows is not a problem for me, since I want seed started onions, I was just worrying if they are strong enough to fend for themselves in the row itself, as they are smallish plants for quite a while... nothing like trying I guess...
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Post by grungy on Aug 6, 2008 14:59:48 GMT -5
Mike, just plant them thickly and then thin. You can always take the thinning and replant them also.
We start with a single 10 foot row and end up filling a 3X30 foot bed using the thinnings. Let them get about 6" tall and just where you can see the white bulb just starting to form, before you transplant them about 4-6" apart both ways.
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Post by canadamike on Aug 6, 2008 20:27:25 GMT -5
This will be done , mon capitaine!!
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