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Re: Mild-Winter Garden - What to plant now?

it might be too late to really get a substantial garden going;  it probably
will depend heavily on your light levels right now and throughout the
season.  in OR, we have a mild, rainy winter (that's just barely too cold
to grow things, but we can overwinter them beautifully!) but we suffer even
more from extremely low light levels both due to the earth's orbit and to
the heavy cloud cover.

for us, we have to get our garden full-sized by mid-october in order to
have veggies to harvest throughout the winter.  they hold well (and should
hold even better in your even-milder climate! if you're serious about your
50°F lows, even tomatoes would survive!!) but don't begin to grow again
until feb or so.

the cole crops will be easy for you, as will the root crops.  start with
those and you have nothing to lose by covering your solanaceae with plastic
(to keep the rain and colder temps off) to overwinter them.  they'll pick
up where they left off if you can keep them alive!

very lucky, you are!


thyme



>Hello All,
>
>After moderate success adapting my north-American gardening patterns to
>my new digs (excuse the pun) on the Mediterranean, I would like to
>explore the possibilities for the winter vegetable garden. Since winter
>is the rainy season here, I have long realized that I was not exploiting
>the better part of the gardening year here.
>
>I am on a mountainside with a distant view of the Mediterranean coast.
>Winter here is basically like a long, wet North American spring. Our
>CURRENT nightime lows are 13-14 Centigrade (equals about 55 Farenheit).
>That's just the low point. Days are balmy - in the 25-28 range (equals
>77-82). It rains off and on - sometimes over several days at a time -
>for the entire winter. We wake up to frost crystals on the ground a few
>days a year - two weeks in January/Feb, maybe a light snow that doesn't
>stick.
>
>So? What can I plant now in the kitchen garden? What will happen if I
>plant onions?
>
>What cottage flowers can I start now? I am especially interested in
>dianthus, godetia, and perenials.
>
>If I install those plastic-sheet hoop tunnels over my beds, what can I
>grow?
>
>Thank you warm-climate gardeners.
>
>Joshua
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