This is a public-interest archive. Personal data is pseudonymized and retained under GDPR Article 89.

Cindy Tx

Cindy Meredith & Mike Szwarc wrote:
> 
> >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
> 
> Well, Joshua, you can have a great garden this winter with collard greens,
> kale, lettuce, spinach, broccoli, cabbage, beets, onions (from starts, too
> late for seeds), fava beans, carrots, radishes (if you have deep enough
> soil for the root crops),mustard, pak choy, tatsoi, and herbs like chervil,
> sorrel, fennel, dill, parsley and thymes. As for flowers, dianthus will do
> well along with calendula, perennial salvias, petunias, pansies,
> snapdragons. Also, you can seed things like poppies, larkspur, and lupines,
> just to name a few.
> 
> You also could try bush snap beans and sqash, too. And, as for plastic
> tunnels, they'll work great. Just make sure if your crop needs pollinating,
> you either open the tunnel or hand pollinate.
> 
> Those are some of the things I grow in my winter South-Central Texas
> garden, except for the beans and squash, it's too cool for those in our
> winter.
> Good luck,  Cindy in TX.
Cindy: You mentioned Tatsoi, I have been toying with "Mesclun" type
items. With respect to Tatsoi, do you direct seed or plug-tray then
transplant? Also what about flea beatles, do you apply floating row
cover, if so is it neccessary for (more or less) on a continuous basis
after emergence? One last question about density, the typical 10 to 12
inches between plants or is it much closer?
                                                Best Regards Steve M
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index