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After the glorious tomato harvest, what next?
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Posted by cowper z10/Sun15 SFBay (My Page) on Sat, Nov 14, 09 at 16:50
| This summer, we had a wonderful time eating a bountiful number of Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes and Cherokee Purple tomatoes: Nothing like pasta cooked with fresh tomatoes and basil. Now with the cold season, the fruit is taking forever to ripen and is split from the rain.
As much as I hate to take out anything that looks green and happy, I'm thinking it's time to replace our two tomato plants so we can continue our small but tasty gesture to the locavore movement. Anyone have favorites that you can grow in a small space? We already have a couple of Romanesco broccoli plants and an artichoke plant from the summer (lovelier than words--I have no idea if it will fruit again but it is so gorgeous I am hoping it will last through the winter).
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RE: After the glorious tomato harvest, what next?
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I grow lettuce and radishes in the winter.
Renee |
RE: After the glorious tomato harvest, what next?
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- Posted by hoovb z9 Southern CA (My Page) on
Sun, Nov 15, 09 at 18:11
| Broccoli, spinach, mesclun, carrots, radishes are all easy here. Peas do well also, but we have to plant quite a lot of them to get a good harvest. |
RE: After the glorious tomato harvest, what next?
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| Artichokes will keep producing from year to year. I bought two just because I thought they were interesting looking plants. They produced more the second year then the first. I left some of the chocks on the plant and found that the flower is really nice. I cut some off to use for dried arrangements. |
RE: After the glorious tomato harvest, what next?
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- Posted by mrclint z10SoCal Valley (My Page) on
Sun, Nov 15, 09 at 23:11
| Try some Fava Beans. They are easy to "shoehorn" into small spaces and work well as a background or centerpiece plant. The tender tips can be used in salads, the flowers are attractive and fragrant, and best of all you'll have a high-protein crop growing through the winter. Plant Favas and fill in the rest of the space with your other edibles. Other small space centerpiece plants are Red-Russian Kale and Swiss Chard. Good fillers for small spaces are the various greens and root crops that do so well through winter. Otherwise, plant what you like or try something new to see if you like it. |
RE: After the glorious tomato harvest, what next?
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- Posted by dicot Los Angeles (My Page) on
Mon, Nov 16, 09 at 16:08
| I will add that most cole and root crops can be planted now. I just planted out 100 each of onion sets and garlic as well as lots of beets, potatoes, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and carrots. Herbs prone to bolting like cilantro can do well in cool weather too. |
RE: After the glorious tomato harvest, what next?
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| onions onions onions. Big box stores have sets now. Yum Yum in late winter / early spring. |
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