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Posted by herbgardener (My Page) on Thu, Aug 27, 09 at 17:52
I have never done a winter garden before but am planning on trying it out this year. Need some of your expert advice.
We filled in our pool this year,put in drip irrigation and it has been working out really well.
Hoping to use this area, cover with a hoop house and put in carrots, arugula, lettuce and spinach. Question, never grown spinach before - is it a cut and come again, if not when I used all that I have planted can I plant again in lets say January & February and will it start growing again.
Was going to start seeding in the next few weeks for the winter crops. Is that too early?
Winter here is similar to Seattle - so little chance of snow just alot of rain.
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RE: Help with winter gardening
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| If you don't get much frost, some vegetables like spinach can grow outside the hoop house. They are frost tolerant. Just let them thaw out before you harvest them. Others, like brussels sprouts, actuually taste better if harvested after a hard frost. I would do succession planting - a couple weeks apart. |
RE: Help with winter gardening
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| Spinach is a cut and come back veggie, along with the lettuces. If it gets too hot, it will bolt and you will have to plant again. Personally, I would plant some inside and some outside. Seeds are cheap and the knowledge you will learn is worth so much more. |
RE: Help with winter gardening
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| I have a bed of lettuce and spinach growing in my high tunnel now. I am going to start to harvest it tonight for market tomorrow. I also just planted a small 12 by 18 tunnel with spinach. I am planning on seeing how this stuff grows. I also am doing an experiment with some lettuce and spinach planted in a half 55 gallon plastic barrel. If I can get it going, my plans are to leave it in the tunnel then bring it into the house and try to maintain some greens in the winter in the house. Seed is cheap and learning you can grow in the winter is so neat. |
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