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Post by littleminnie on Jan 6, 2011 18:24:32 GMT -5
Last spring a lot of stuff survived and went to seed for me to save which was nice. This La Nina season is so cold that I don't expect the same stuff to survive- like carrots, parsnip, spinach, etc.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jan 6, 2011 19:19:43 GMT -5
No changes for me... Any biennial that I want to save seeds from is dug and stored inside or buried in a deep cache until spring. My fields are strictly annual, meaning that I till everything under every fall. If I want to grow a biennial crop I dig it in the fall and replant it in the spring. If I grow perennials I till them under in the fall, and put any that survive into a row the next spring.
I routinely plant spinach, lettuce, and parsnip seeds in the fall. They seem to do fine.
My winter so far has been notably mild.
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Post by littleminnie on Jan 8, 2011 18:31:08 GMT -5
We are having such a winter here! and it is still so early. I just say all the time that I am glad I am no longer a meter reader. When I was and we had a snowy winter I hurt my hip from walking through deep snow. Anyway we have a lot of snow to help insulate stuff but the wind is bad a lot and blowing off the snow. The poor animals!
I'm not worried about the garlic or shallots but do think that stuff like root veggies will not survive.
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Post by castanea on Jan 8, 2011 19:23:43 GMT -5
The problem I had was that our summer was so cool that melons and watermelons had a difficult time maturing. So I got no seeds at all from some of them.
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