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Fall Plantings Start Now

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Fall plantings can be an important source of late season calories and vitamins. They don’t just happen on their own though. Even the phrasing is misleading. You shouldn’t be planting your fall garden in the fall. You need to plant it in late summer so that it’s reached maturity before all the light is lost after the fall equinox. You southern types don’t have to worry so much about hours of daylight, but you do have worry about rain more than I do. Make the plans that make sense for your area.  The important part is to make the plans.

Now’s the time to be clearing sections of the garden for those fall greens. In my garden, the swaths of lettuce that go to seed, are coming out to make room for some fall veggies. (I do keep about 10% of the lettuce going to seed, the best looking of the seed stalks.) Peas are also dying back in the summer heat. (Again, I’ve got seed saved.) So I’ll be hoeing out the straggly remaining shoots this weekend. Those two openings should be enough for my planned lettuce, swiss chard and asian greens. Maybe in your garden there’s an early carrot crop that comes out in July or August, that space could be replanted for a fall crop of something tasty.

I’ll be pulling out the garlic crop soon. That will need sorting and drying. The best of the cloves will go back in the ground this fall, one more planting that needs space. This year I’m wanting to expand that garlic crop, so I’ll be placing an order for a few pounds of seed garlic before the end of July. If any of you are planning garlic orders, I’d get them in sooner rather than later. There are a couple of seed garlic providers in my area that had a rough spring and crop failures.

I’ve heard some people can do fall plantings of peas, I’ve never had good luck with it. Radishes can do alright if the cool weather of fall lasts long enough. Have I forgotten any? Are any of y’all planning some fall gardens? Do share!

- Calamity Jane


Source: http://www.shtfblog.com/fall-plantings-start-now/


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