Re: Till the summer garden in?
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Charlotte,
If you aren't going to utilize the garden anymore, why not plant some fall
rye or oats or some other cover crop so that you don't have to deal with a
ton of weeds when you come back?
If you are going to still use the garden, I'd take everything out except the
Swiss chard (which is pretty winter hardy) and plant fall rye on the rest.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Charlotte Bedsole <shalee@m-y.net>
To: veggie-list@eskimo.com <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Date: Saturday, October 09, 1999 12:04 AM
Subject: Till the summer garden in?
>A question for you:
>
>Should we just leave the garden "as is" with veggies still there....a few
>eggplant, a straggling squash or zucchini or two, a row of swiss
>chard..........or till it in before we leave the mountains this month?
>
>We are new at this.....going from NC to Fl...spending May through October
in
>the mountains of NC and November through April in Florida.
>
>When we return in the spring, the garden is such a job to prepare and we're
>not getting any younger....Any wonderful suggestions from you experienced
>gardeners?
>
>When we return, my husband insists on tilling ( I think too deeply, thus
>disturbing all the weeds ) but I don't have the solution. Help, if you
>can.
>
>Thanks!!
>Charlotte in NC zone 7
>
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