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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Just ordered some Fall seeds, albeit a little late. Everything I ordered can be baby salad greens though. The wasabi arugala is 35 days to maturity, sprouts in 5-7 days and is frost hardy so no problem there. Will have to go through my existing seeds and pull out cold hardy, greens etc. Hopefully the free packet of seeds will be in season.

Oddly, they say can grow year round in all but the most extreme climates but go on to classify it as not being frost hardy.

I imagine tossing some plastic over it on cold nights will keep it going for a while. Might grow some salad indoors too.

Winter harvest, plus it's a cabbage, but yet again, they say not frost hardy. Ought to be a big hit with my co-workers. One had a stent put in a year ago and is a health food nut now and eats "a lot of salads". The other said he loves cabbage, especially raw.(here, have a cabbage stick) Yes, three blue collar guys were talking salads/greens/cabbage.

The above two say 4-6 hours of sun. Two others say 4-10 hours and one says full sun. We'll see how they all handle short days. Can't have the garden just sitting there growing nothing.

Got a cool spell coming up with daytime temps in the mid 60s and night time down around 40. The tomatoes aren't going to like that. I already retired one tomato plant that was just done for the year.

Hmm, I'm going to have to finish that pepper/onion dressing recipe. The pepper/onion relish base should still be fine. It was canned.

Seeds will probably be here today along with another tech gadget/toy, an industrial touch screen monitor/display. Along with the industrial mini PC I got a week ago, they will be my High Tunnel Command and Control Center. LOL

With the cool weather coming, I won't mind doing the cutting/welding on the high tunnel frames. Won't be sweating and being attacked by bugs and I can wear long sleeves for some spark protection and welding rays burn protection(think sunburn).

72 posted on 10/02/2023 9:01:52 AM PDT by Pollard (The US government has US citizens as political prisoners!)
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To: Pollard

I tried some Little Gem lettuce for the first time late summer planting. Just started picking and I really like it. Wider leaves and greener than our usual romaine.


79 posted on 10/03/2023 1:23:11 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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