Last fall when lookin for cauliflower starts that I raise through winter down here I was at a big box store (Lowe's) when the Bonnie Plants delivery guy was a making deliveries. I asked him when they would be getting cauliflower. He did not know, he just delivers what they give him. But I...
The Mom 'n Pop I used in Arkansas was in a small town and had been in the family for generations. They started a lot of their plants in their own greenhouse and had a supply chain that was not Bonnie. I think I was lucky to find them.
I've always found the squash, melons, and such hard to...
When I was in Arkansas, about the same latitude as Tennessee, I'd set the onion and garlic bulbs in the fall, two or three weeks before the first frost. They'd set roots and be ready to take off as soon as spring hit. Most years I'd mulch them a little but nothing extravagant. Some years I'd...