![]() ![]() For more information on seed saving check this blog.Īnd of course, let’s not forget that many varieties of herbs do very well on a sunny kitchen windowsill. That will save you the cost of new plants and yield varieties you know you can feel confident putting out in your garden. Find the beans that were your heaviest producers, or the tomatoes that just wouldn’t quit and dry the seed to store until you can start them in the spring. You can also collect seeds from the plants that did the best in your garden this year. Make sure you remove the flower heads, also known as scapes, as this would take away energy from making bulbs. You will be harvesting your crop by July. Walk away and see them pop up next April. Depending on the type of garlic, you may be able to get 6 to 15 bulbs from one head. Separate the bulbs from the head and plant them about 2 inches deep and 6 inches apart. You can wait until the spring to plant garlic as well, but planting now in the fall leads to a larger, earlier harvest. Garlic can be planted now and will set roots before the soil temperature drops to the 30’s in January. Those fresh, leafy greens and sweet, orange carrots would have kept the Minshall/Painter family eating fresh produce even as the season turned to winter.īeyond planting late season crops for harvesting over the winter, there are things you can do to set yourself up for success for next summer. Late harvests like this would have been essential when Tyler was a working farm. Here in Lucille’s garden we have a wonderful array of cool season crops growing, and we’re looking forward to bringing in the harvest over the next few months. ![]() Root crops to be left in the ground over winter: carrots, parsnips, beets, daikon, turnipsįast growing vegetables to seed now (less than 40 days to harvest): radish, broccoli rabe, spinach, bok choy, arugula By January the soil will have lost the last of the summer warmth and be about 30F.įrost tolerant vegetables: kale, Brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, leeks ![]() Lettuce, leeks and spinach can be planted with soil temperatures in the 40’s range, which will come for us around Thanksgiving. The sweet spot for cool season crops to germinate and grow is when the soil temperature is around 60F. Some will even tolerate a frost, or even taste better afterward because the starch will convert to sugar. Cool season crops like these thrive on cool nights and warm days. In this area the first frost of the winter season usually occurs at the end of October, which means that you can transplant leafy greens like kale and spinach, or seed root vegetables like carrots and radishes. Think root and leaf crops as they tend to either be fast growing or can withstand the cold – two characteristics that will stretch your season.įirst, know your frost dates. Now is the time to plant cool weather crops. Your garden doesn’t need to be done for the year! In fact, we probably have another 4 to 5 weeks, possibly 6 where you can get some great planting and harvesting in. Hold up on putting away the digging fork or the wheel barrel. ![]()
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