What's In your Fall/Winter Garden? (or do you have one?)
Submitted by Jdayh on Sat, 10/17/2009 - 20:58
Just wondering if any of you avid gardeners ..(or new gardeners) have a fall garden.
If so ....what you planting? Or what have you successfully planted in the past fall gardens you may have done? (Do you plant and grow inside first ?)
PLEASE SHARE (for the benefit and inspririation of those who may not think there is much growing to be done in the fall...)
THANKS!!!
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snow . . . LOL!
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
covering leaves in some beds, green manure in others . . .
and, unfortunately, snow covering the cold frame--
BUT . . .
snow also covers the garlic that has been planted--
and all the MOST 'tender' herbs have been winter-prepped . . .
they survived last year; let's see if they do next year--
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Mine's confused
I'm in a city known for its very un-extreme climate. Some days, the low is the same as the high, and it doesn't vary much from winter to summer, either. (check weather averages for ZIP 90232, if you're interested) Next spring's paperwhites and irises are already 12" tall.
My almond tree has a few blossoms on it, having just lost its leaves. We've just had a couple of good rain storms after a couple of years with very little rain. The pineapple guavas took off as if it was spring, producing fruit and blooms at the same time, and the mockingbirds are singing up a storm.
My zucchini, which alternately struggled, then thrived, depending on the "June gloom" coming and going in May and August, is still blooming, but the days are too short for the fruit to set. I think my basil has re-seeded a new crop.
The compost pile is almost as tall as I am, but I hope the rain will help it "cook" down. The banana trees and sage are blooming, and the hummingbirds are glad. The neighbor's avocados are ripe and the pits are showing up under my cedar trees 200 feet away. (Thieves steal them from the squirrels that own them, and eat them in my yard.)
The oranges and lemons are almost ripe. Raccoons and opossum party every night. Weeds are everywhere.
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Collards, beets, turnips,
Collards, beets, turnips, snap peas, carrots, japanese radish, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, lettuce, spinach, and peas are all doing very well. Thanks to our great SoCal weather even lots of tomatos still, and we just got our last good sized Italian squash. I swear by this stuff:
http://www.ecoorganics.com
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Collards
is just about the only I still have going in CT. BUT I simmer them for hours with a veal breast and some garlic and crushed red pepper.... The broth is fantastic....No one can resist these greens.
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YACON!
well it's not actually growing but it's over-wintering now in the garden. But this plant is AMAZING!
It's one of the lost crops of the Incas. A tuber that tastes like a cross between an asian pear and a potato. Sweet & very juicy. You can eat it raw, cook 'em up, juice 'em, or let them sweeten in the sun. Said to be pro-biotic. And they store up to 8 months (I've read). Contains inulin which is good for diabetes and the leaves can be used to make a healthy tea. We just harvested our first ever plants last week and got about 80 lbs (35 kg) of tubers from just two plants. EIGHTY POUNDS! Highly recommended!
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Sounds very interesting!
Where do you get them, and where can I find out if my climate would grow them?
Horizon Herbs, Williams, Oregon
you can order it from Horizon Herbs, Williams, Oregon
http://www.horizonherbs.com/product.asp?specific=1009
http://www.horizonherbs.com/product.asp?specific=1984
but there are others who sell it. I've seen UK blogs on growing it so apparently it can grow in colder climates.
Oca is another lost Inca crop we tried this year. So far I've only tasted one raw (nothing great) but still have to try cooking with it. Another heavy producer tho!
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update on Oca
put olive oil, salt & pepper on some and baked them up. They're great - like french fries sort of. Tastes like a mini baked potato with the sour cream already on it. A great potato substitute.
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Hey, that's really interesting
Regular potatoes make crappy juice.
"said the guy that wanted to market Tater-ade"
I need to look into this..
Pretty hardy?
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hardy?
you harvest them after the first frost and they need some 6-8 months growing time. They start growing after the last frost and the tubers start forming in the fall. They wilt in temps above 80 or so but recover. They're related to the sunflower so if you can grow those you probably can grow yacon. They even form little tiny sunflowers :-)
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I'm not a "new" gardener
but everything froze.
In greenhouse temp @ 8 deg. F. so no garden currently "growing".
If it is 8 in the green house what is it outside?
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I gave up running the propane after midnight for a few nights. Chickens all made it though.
We had 22 below the other night
no global warming I have seen here.
22 below! Where the heck are ya?
North Dakota? I lived ( survived) there once for two years ..sometimes with the wind chill it got to 80 below!
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Today is a heat wave comparatively speaking, got up to 31.
Probably all that global warming
My soil to fingernail ratio is getting lower than I like too.
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nail to soil? ... we just thawed and all the lawn is black and muck. eww. Even doogie no likie.
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"Feds to limit gardening?"
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"Feds to limit gardening?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwEib4FcD24
"The End of Local Food"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkaNR-bqlrY
"Criminal Food Bill Passed"
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"The End of Small Farms?
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any update on the feds limiting gardening?
That video was from March.. just wondering..
thanks
This is what I found, so far.
I think a big concern now is H.R. 2749. Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. This bill has passed the House according to the link below.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2749
Also, here is a related video (I posted earlier, but I guess you didn't watch it).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH8Tchm4NKQ
A related article, "HR 2749: Totalitarian Control of the Food Supply"
http://www.infowars.com/hr-2749-totalitarian-control-of-the-...
Also, you can go to the link below and type in H.R. 2749 in the Serach Bill Summary & Status.
http://www.thomas.gov/
As far as H.R. 875, it seems that not much has happened based on the link below. But please, correct me if my assumption is wrong.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-875
Also, you can go to the link below and type in H.R. 875 in the Search Bill Summary & Status.
http://www.thomas.gov/
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You've got it right, Greed.
This is a comment I made to my representative about HR 2749--"It is obvious to me that HR 2749 which passed the House will codify ‘international standards’ under obligations to ‘international agreements’; will do nothing to improve food safety, and will impact farmers and ranchers struggling to stay in business. When many families are struggling to make ends meet, it is not the time to increase taxes and regulations and penalties that will in turn raise the cost of food to the consumer."
I don't think it has come up in the senate, but I could be wrong. When it does--this would be a good comment to send to senators, as well.
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anyone have good success with planting clover..or some other
type of plant in the winter/fall.. to introduce more nitrogen into the soil.. for the spring planting?
If so does this work?? Any Success?
peas & fava beans
is what we grow to replace nitrogen. Better tasting than clover ;-)
Guess it depends tho on where you live, but there are a lot of varieties which might work for your area.
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For a cover crop I use chickens :)
I have a few garden spots that I rotate different crops in. 2 at home and one behind the store. At the store I plant crimson clover and then when it is about 18" high mow it down let it sit a day to dry a little and then till it in.
At home I use a portable electric fence, and a chicken coop built on an old utility trailer. See http://www.kencove.com/fence/Electric+Net+Fencing_detail_NSP...
The garden is set up where the rows run from north to south, one year (or growing season fall/summer garden) , the chickens will have the run of the north end, the next time the south end. I just move the fence and pull the trailer to the new spot.
In the fall when I plant my green fields for deer I plant some of that mix in the chicken run also, they eat some the rest gets tilled under along with all the chicken poop the next garden.
Right now, the chickens are where the summer garden was, (the south end) and I have onions, peas, garlic, collards, spinach, lettuce, planted where they were this summer (the north end).
Any legumes or beans will attract some nitrogen out of the atmosphere, so even in the summer you are adding some nitrogen back in.
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