I would be interested in your recommendations for Asian vegetables that are suited for fall -winter growing in central North Carolina. It's too hot here for summer cultivation, and spring is very risky, (very short spring) so I'd like to try fall.
Our earliest frost is 15 October. January gets to low 20s or teens, but I can provide some cover for something like a cold frame. I would be using a raised bed on the south side of the house.
I am particularly interested in the following, but I solicit suggestions, in particular varieties that do well in a long fall that starts out pretty hot. I am prepared to germinate indoors, to have a cooler-than-outside temperature for germination. So, included in my request for advice, is how cool does it need to be when I set them out?
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My fall season is not too different from yours. I am growing more and more things as fall crops. Most Asian greens are members of either the mustard or cabbage families, both of which tend to bolt in hot weather. It is best if they mature during cooler weather. Radishes and turnips also are good fall crops.
Asian vegetables which would not be good fall crop candidates are melons, gourds, eggplant, okra and the like, which grow require hot weather.
I grow a host of Asian vegetables all winter long, but there are so many you can now also grow in heat and humidity. I like the descriptions that Bakers Seed uses because they will tell you if the vegetable grows in tropical weather - then you know it will grow well in the South. Some of the other Asian seed sites will also tell you if the vegetable grows in a tropical climate.
