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- To: v*@eskimo.com
- Subject: Re: fall seeding methods?..
- From: i* b* <l*@halcyon.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 14:14:10 -0700
- Old-Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 14:10:35 -0600
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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