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[bamadude]

Emu=bamadude repellant

 

[Wisher1000]

Wisher, most "greens" do well in cool weather. Up here we can do cabbage and spinach and green beans and peas in the cooler months. We can also get a late crop of carrots if we plant at the right time and do some kind of cover.

I like cabbage, but so do the bugs that we have all the way up to the first heavy frost. I haven't tried green beans or peas in cooler months. I can remember shelling peas and snap beans with my grandmother when I was little. Purple hull peas are a hot weather crop, I think.......yummmmm............but I digress.....

I want to put some food crops in now, or later in the summer. I have grown broccoli and it was awesome. I will likely do that again. No one here will eat greens (but me) so I am looking for something different. What kind of beans and peas do you grow in the cooler months?

 

[vehve]

Wisher, most "greens" do well in cool weather. Up here we can do cabbage and spinach and green beans and peas in the cooler months. We can also get a late crop of carrots if we plant at the right time and do some kind of cover.

Our frozen ground prevents most funerals in the winter months... it's serious business up here.

I'm off soon to go do blueberry picking!

You could come here and pick some for me too! I don't know why, but I'm the laziest picker in the world. I love eating them, but picking, not so much. Even with a berry picker.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I like cabbage, but so do the bugs that we have all the way up to the first heavy frost. I haven't tried green beans or peas in cooler months. I can remember shelling peas and snap beans with my grandmother when I was little. Purple hull peas are a hot weather crop, I think.......yummmmm............

European cabbage moths are my biggest problem with brassicas. Floating row cover is the only way I can prevent the damage.

http://butterfly.ucdavis.edu/butterfly/Pieris/rapae

 

[Bunnylady]

I'm lazy, I guess; I like sugar snap/snow peas - stringing them seems like a lot less effort than shelling, and you get more to eat in less time. We can only grow them during the cooler months; they burn out fast in the summer heat. Summer squash and cucumbers generally get taken out by pests in June or July around here, and there is usually just enough time to get a second crop of them before frost.

 

[Alaskan]

Wisher, most "greens" do well in cool weather. Up here we can do cabbage and spinach and green beans and peas in the cooler months. We can also get a late crop of carrots if we plant at the right time and do some kind of cover.

Our frozen ground prevents most funerals in the winter months... it's serious business up here.

I'm off soon to go do blueberry picking!

We dig the hole in the summer/fall and cover it with a tarp and lots of hay. (For the cemetery)

 

[Wisher1000]

That's creepy. A hole in the cemetery just waiting on you.

 

[bamadude]

For sale: prepaid graves...get em while its hot..prepaid tombstones extra

 

[vehve]

For sale: prepaid graves...get em while its hot..prepaid tombstones extra

I would prefer the extra crispy package for myself. While I enjoy composting, it's not a very welcoming thought for my remains.

 

[Lacy Blues]

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Great tutorial! Thanks! Our ground rarely freezes, and snow? Huh, maybe a couple of inches, for a couple of hours, every other year or three. The 'freeze line" for pipes is actually only about 6" deep. Would I plant in the fall, or wait till spring? I'm looking forward to it now..........


See above! I can check around and see what others are doing, I think I will try the carrots this fall, though. Anyone know of any more fall plants besides carrots, broccoli (my fav) and collards?

I think green beans are a summer crop but like someone else suggested, greens... lettuces, spinach, that kind of thing. Leafy stuff that take a lot of water. Summer heat wilts them in a hurry.