Gardensong » fall vegetables http://gardensong.net Getting your garden growing! Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:22:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Planting a Fall Vegetable Garden http://gardensong.net/planting-a-fall-vegetable-garden-133/ http://gardensong.net/planting-a-fall-vegetable-garden-133/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:29:56 +0000 Garden Grrrl http://gardensong.net/?p=133 One of the strange things about gardening is that everyone plants in a brief period in the spring and harvests in the summer and fall, no matter what kind of climate we live in. I live in a the Northwest and yet it’s still difficult for me to remember to plant fall garden. This is my first year gardening in Oregon, so I’m still getting use to the climate here. I couldn’t believe how long my peas lasted. I was still eating peas from my yardshare garden in July.

This week my mom visited from California and we spent some time weeding the garden. Sadly, the garden is overrun by bind weed. It’s nasty stuff. We pulled up the peas and potatoes, making room for some fall crops. Then we planted carrots, beets, radishes, turnips, arugula and bulbing fennel. I’m trying to use up all my older seeds so I’m not sure whether or not everything will sprout. So far the radishes and arugula have come up.

Another challenging element of planting a fall garden is getting seeds to germinate during the heat of July and August. I laid down some row cover, flat against the ground to help keep the soil moist. Carrots are the especially slow to start, so I’m hoping that I manage to get some to come up.
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