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Re: fall seeding methods?..

On 7/3/97 Pat Patterson wrote:

>We have a slight advantage here in zone 7 (more or less) with fall and
>winter gardening. Basically we can grow most of the cabbage family,
>leaf lettuces, overwintering onions (usually Walla Walla), chives,
>bunching onions,  corn salad, spinach, chard, etc. almost year-round.
>Seeds are sown June to Sept. 1, transplants are set out July-Sept. I
>live over 1000', so I use a little more protection than "valley
>folks". I have had good luck with concrete reinforcing wire cloches
>covered with Reemay over with I add a covering of plastic as the
>weather becomes more severe. We will usually have 2 or 3 days below 20
>degrees in the winter, lots of mid-upper 20s.

Hello from western Washington:

I also live at about 1200 feet with similar winter temperatures. This is my
first year to garden here and I've been astonished/delighted to see my
lettuce and spinach go on and on and on...

I'm wondering what things I should be planting now to be able to overwinter
them in the sorts of cloches you describe. Would you explain a little more
how the cloches are constructed?

irene bensinger, who is encouraging her tomato plants to makes tomatoes to
go with their leaves!

irene bensinger   *    lirene@halcyon.com
      http://www.halcyon.com/lirene/
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