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Re: Cool weather crops

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Peas and broccoli can probably be planted in the next few weeks (5 weeks
before your last frost date), so use the time to warm the soil by
covering your beds with clear 4mm plastic. Carrots and lettuce will need
another week.  No protection is necessary, unless it snows.  However, I
keep the plastic cover or a row cover on until the seedlings come up and
then any nights that fall below freezing.  The plants won't be injured
by a nip of frost, but I am usually very impatient! 

BTW, lettuce can be started indoors about 3 weeks before planting out,
so if you start them now they will be ready at just about the right
time.

Good gardening!
		Cathy, zone 6, where peas have just begun to sprout



Care206@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I have been sq ft gardening for two years and am attempting cool weather
> crops for the first time this year.  I am going to grow Broccoli, peas,
> carrots and some Romaine lettuce for the tortise.  I know you should plant
> when "the ground can be worked"... my boxes are finally drying out from all
> th melting snow and rain. My question is, do these veggies have to be
> protected  (Wall o water or row cover) or can they be left as is? Or am I
> completely off the mark, and they can only be grown in a cold frame? Somebody?
> 
> Carolyn
> New York's Hudson Valley-zone 6
> 
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