Re: Fall vegetables

Everyone's suggestions have me re-assessing my own planting list and contemplating increasing my beds. If you get adventurous, since you're so close to L.A. in weather, you could try planting zucchini and starting tomatoes in place from seed.  Since zucch's are so fast to the finish, they will usually produce during the warm stretches, certainly up through the year-end and that lovely stretch of early January.  And the tomatoes seem to appreciate a head-start - they seem to spend the winter putting out roots and leaves, getting ready for the first climb into nighttime 60's (15C) in April/May to produce fruit.  Of course, a cold winter may do them in...
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Alexandre Leonardo <a_m_leonardo@hotmail.com>
To: peabodys_gardener@yahoo.com; medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:08:07 AM
Subject: Re: Fall vegetables

Thank you everyone for your help.
Night temperatures of 17ºC. We have very mild winters and our temperatures
should be very similar to the ones you describe for LA.
I started some lettuces, peas, and carrots. Lets wait and see how it goes.

>From: Carol Joynson <peabodys_gardener@yahoo.com>
>To: a_m_leonardo@hotmail.com, medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>Subject: Re: Fall vegetables
>Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:19:37 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Alexandre -
>
>What are your night time temperatures?  And what will the the weather be
>like in "a few weeks?"  I'm in Los Angeles - just getting ready to set out
>cool-weather greens, brassicas, green onions, lettuces, that won't mind
>when the temperature dips below 50F (10C) at night.  Since we never get
>much below 40F (4C) for any length of time, and only rarely below 32F (0C)
>and that only for an hour or so, most things that say "as early in spring
>as the ground can be worked" seem to do fine. Of course, I sometimes lose a
>few things to a winter heat-wave....
>
>Carol
>
>``Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
>stupidity'' - Hanlon's Razor
>
>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Alexandre Leonardo a_m_leonardo@hotmail.com
>To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2007 12:51:39 PM
>Subject: Fall vegetables
>
>
>I'm thinking of starting a vegetable plot in my garden. I have no
>experience with vegetables so I would like your advice on this matter. What
>would be the best vegetables to sow at this time of year. This is southern
>Portugal and the weather is still warm, arround 20-25ºC (and likelly to
>stay like that for a few more weeks). Thank you for your advices
>
>Alexandre Leonardo
>
>
>
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