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Brussels Sprouts
... withstands cold excellently, and can stand until temperatures start to regularly fall below 10 degrees.) This is another item with a fairly large ... : we'll try it. Planting First, and always with any brassica crop: Remember to rotate your crops! Planting brassicas, of any kinds, ... solid freezes are nearly tasteless. This is most definitely a late fall crop! Keep it going as long as you can--it might ...
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Kohlrabi
... a choice of shooting for an early-summer crop or a later-fall crop (or perhaps both). We don't (on average, that is) start getting over 75°F. till about June; thus, a spring planting made in early March should give a crop ... a fall crop perhaps around Thanksgiving. Kohlrabi, like many "roots" (though it is not, in actuality, technically a "root" crop--the ...
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Desirable Vegetable Varieties: Peas
... with Lincolns a month later.) One can also grow a fall pea crop (last year we thought of that too late, ... fall crop, because the cool days around maturity will not speed development of the crop as would long, bright late-spring or early-summer days. So we will try sowing a fall crop ... area between western Asia and Eastern Europe, are an ancient crop, used for food since, literally, the Stone Age (dried ...
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Our Climate
... matter what we grow where, since the summer (and even spring and fall) sun passes from east to south to west. Our Garden It's ... own garden, but it will to some extent illustrate the points about crop rotation and using deep-dug beds that we discussed in the introduction ... to grow cherry tomatoes for salad use plus one or two main-crop type tomatoes for sandwiches and such. And, of course, we also now ...
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Desirable Vegetable Varieties: Sunchoke
... artichokes are available year round, but are at their sweetest from fall through winter"). One source claims that there are today perhaps 200 " ... root crops, take care when digging not to damage your crop. You will have to dig pretty extensively, both vertically and horozontally ... hole. You have now both harvested your current crop and planted your next season's crop. It is said that you can expect ...
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Beans
... broad spectrum of what we lump together as "beans". Beans fall into many different classes, and the matter is complicated by ... content are strong. Beans (like peas) make a good follow crop in crop rotations to any really heavy feeders; we like to put ... crowder peas, Southern peas, black-eyed peas, and other things, a staple crop for both consumption and fodder in warm, humid areas.) Envoi Epazote ...
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Beets
... use in soups and such, you might as well let them go until rather late fall, nominal maturity dates notwithstanding. More Relevant Links Besides any links presented above on this page ... beet is essentially the history of chard, its close relative and immediate ancestor. The ancestor crop of today's beet occurs widely over the Mediterranean lands, Asia Minor, the Caucasus, and ...
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Broccoli
... primary distinction in cultivars is between so-called "spring" and "fall" types: the fall types are really for overwintering, with the much earlier spring ... . To determine the best time for setting fall transplants, count backward from the first fall frost date then add about 10 to ... to 65 days before the "first fall frost date". If we plan on planting such a second crop out on September 15th (having ...
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Cabbage
... -spring or early-summer harvest, or a "winter" type for late-fall harvest--that's why we go with the tried and true Early ... to clubroot disease; the only reliable way to avoid it is crop rotation, with a minimum four-year pattern recommended. Saving seed from ... plants with the largest leaves were selectively propagated for next year's crop. By the 5th century B.C., that continued preference for ever- ...
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Garlic
... discard the "artichoke" types and say that another ¼ of our crop will be porcelain types. And, because we have already eliminated the "artichoke" types as wimpy, the other ½ of our crop will be either rocambole or purple-stripe types--say ¼ rocambole and ... climates") Planting Timing Out here, we plant garlic in the fall--typically around October 1st (which is about, one hopes, 6 ...
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