What did you learn from your 2023 garden?
Good morning! A bit of snow for us today. Sounds like a more serious snow for Tuesday.
Have a question for you, are there any Hellebores that do well here in southern Wisconsin?
Been seeing them in my “gardening” searches on X. Mostly they are pictures from gardens in England where the arctic cold usually stays away.
From what I have read, they need some shade.
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What I have learned is not to plant things that cabbage loopers love, and when I do, to plant them late, but not TOO late! (Which I did last year.) If you do plant them do not plant really tall plants, but short ones that you can still grow under covers. (Which I did.)
My winter broccoli is still growing under cover. I fertilized it again 2 days ago. Some heads are 3" across. I do not expect any rapid growth but I am not going to pull them up at this point. I dug up and used some leeks last week. They are perfectly happy with our 20F to 30F current low temperatures without any cover in the garden.
Garlic and multiplier onions are in the ground for next year. I think I will be cutting back my total plantings. Turnip and beets to the extent I can protect from squirrels. Some tomato plants (Thorburn's Terra Cotta and and a few other determinate varieties I have yet to decide on.) So maybe some bet alpha cucumbers that can grow without pollination under cover, some lettuce too.
Might start a pot with leeks soon. (Medium in larger size pots, sprinkle with leek seeds, water, put some hardware cloth over it to keep the squirrels out, put them outside in the garden in the shade look at them again in the spring.)
my problem is sometimes my seeds don't come up or are slow to come up and I panic when I'm at the garden store and buy "extra" plants just in case...of course then my seeds just take off....