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Corn & Tomatoes IN THE GROUND!

We used one of the best planting days this past week-Crab-The Breast-Cancer to plant 5 rows of corn and 106 tomato plants! Whew!

Seems like every weekend has been too wet or fell under the wrong sign for us to get the corn planted. The Deer Hunter announced we had to plant it after work-even if we were all wore out. I was dreading it something awful!

But it wasn't so bad. The Deer Hunter's new tractor tiller made the corn planting go lickety split. Waiting on someone to plow the long rows with a hand tiller seemed to take forever-but in 10 minutes it was done-thanks to the new tiller attachment.

The tractor left the dirt so powdery soft that it was a breeze for the rows to be laid off (well it was a breeze for me because The Deer Hunter did them!)

We planted Silver Queen, Golden Queen (Pap and Granny like for their corn to mix) and a half a row of field corn so Granny can make hominy out of it.

First The Deer Hunter plowed the area we were going to plant in; then he laid off the rows with a lay off plow; and we dropped the corn into the rows.

Then we walked along the rows dragging each foot so that the row was filled with dirt-covering the seeds. The girls like the covering part-because they are usually barefoot and they love how the dirt feels on their piggy toes.

Right when we were finished dropping the corn Chitter said "Oh is it time to pack in the corn? I want to pack the corn in can I? Can I?" Pap got a kick out of that. 

In no time flat-me, The Deer Hunter, Pap, Chatter, and Chitter planted 5 rows of corn. I was so excited about how quick we got the work done that I said "Lets go home and plant tomatoes!" And we did.

The Deer Hunter had the raised beds ready and waiting-so all we had to do was dig a hole an plop the plants in. We added a spoonful or so of Epsom salt to each plant's hole, like we did last year. A local old timer told me he and his Mother swore by adding Epsom salt when they planted their tomatoes. Since we had the best crop of tomatoes ever last summer-we decided to go the Epsom salt route again. 

We started all of our tomatoes from seed. All but two of the tomato varieties came from Sow True Seed-who is sponsoring our garden this year. One variety-Cream and Sausage is from seed I've saved for several years. The other variety Ox Heart-came from a Blind Pig reader, Cee. I'll tell you more about the Sow True Seed's varieties as they began to grow. 

I was so worried about getting the tomato seedlings started later than usual-the firs of April this year. But in the end-it worked out fine. The tomato plants were just the right size when we planted them the other evening.

The hybrid corn-Silver Queen and Golden Queen came from the local feed store. My Uncle Lucky shared the field corn seed with Granny since he knows how much she loves hominy. 

How's your garden?

Tipper

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Aliens In The Yard?

Over the last few days there have been some strange happenings around the Blind Pig house. 

Oh well that was just The Deer Hunter talking to the chickens-so maybe that wasn't so strange. Or maybe I'm the weird thing happening since I'm taking creeper photos. 

But just look at this-doesn't it look like an Alien hatching from its pod?

And worse there seem to be lots of them hatching!!! 

Okay enough with the silliness-what you're actually seeings is my very own multiplying onions. A Blind Pig reader, Bill Dotson, sent them to me well over a year ago. The onions are just now beginning to take off.

Many people call them Egyptian Onions because of the weird way their seed pods open up-like you see above. This is the first year we've eaten the onions. What do they taste like? Exactly like regular green onions you plant in the Spring only we didn't even have to plant them because they spread/multiplied over the winter. (Thank you Bill!!)

As I was out admiring the alien pods I decided to check on my Salsify. Maybe you remember me telling you about the Salsify seeds I got from Sow True Seed. Salsify is a root vegetable.

Salsify is commonly called oyster plant-because people say it tastes like oysters. I love oysters-so I'm hoping it really does-but I've heard other folks say while it is tasty it tastes nothing like oysters. So mostly I'm just hoping my plants grow enough for me to find out myself. 

As you can see from the photo, when I checked on my Salsify plants I noticed they were about to bloom.

After seeing the bloom I started worrying-thinking that's probably not even Salsify; silly me I've probably been cultivating a weed!

I googled around and discovered Salsify does indeed bloom. And even better I discovered the greens of the plant are also edible! Click here to read the Salsify info I found. 

So there are weird things happening around the Blind Pig house-but thankfully they're all weird in a good way.

Recently, one of my friends was talking about how she had gotten in the habit of walking around her yard every morning to see what had developed over night. These days I don't get to walk around the yard every day, but when I do I always see something interesting or lovely to brighten my day. 

Tipper

p.s. Go by the Edie's Cookies booth on Saturday at the Depot in Murphy (10-2) and mention the Blind Pig & the Acorn for a free cookie. BTW-Edie makes the best cookies EVER!! Go here for more info about Edie's Cookies.

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Planting By The Signs May 2013

I've been dreaming about fresh tomatoes, bright yellow squash, and eating a cucumber still warm from the sunshine sprinkled with salt. Hopefully by the end of May my dreams will be closer to coming true-you know when I've actually got all those things planted! 

Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce

Our Spring garden is going strong-we have lettuce, onions, cabbage, sugar snap peas, radishes, and asparagus. Most of which we grew from Sow True Seed - they signed on to sponsor the Blind Pig garden again this year. 

Our tomato seedlings are coming right along too. I was worried we got a late start with them-but I think they'll be ready just in time. Having to change the plastic on the greenhouse may have been a blessing in disguise-as the new plastic allows a whole lot more light to get through.

I've been working with Sow True Seed on a very interesting project-hopefully I'll be sharing more of the details with you in the weeks to come.

How's your garden coming along?

Tipper

p.s. Today is The Deer Hunter's birthday. Back when we were first married one of his friends would tease me-asking me if I didn't think I should trade up in husbands. Every time I would tell him-no I've seen whats out there I think I'll keep what I've got. All these years later I still feel the same way-I've seen whats out there and I'm pretty sure I got the best husband out of the bunch.

Brian Blake sent me his original poem, the Green Man. I'd like to share it with you-and dedicate it to Deer Hunter as well for his birthday.

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The  Green  Man

For Gretchen

Spring quickens! Earth warms to the beam of Father Sun.   

Blushing, thrusting shoots toss winter’s cloak aside:            

The Green Man comes!                                                      

Leaves and vines entwining embrace the year begun.          

Soul of the world, birthed sure as the flood tide,                 

“To Life!” he cries.

Arbors bloom, pastures ripen, fast sweet waters run.           

Nymphs of creation forth to the summons stride.    

“To Love!” he calls.

A lingering kiss, enfolding, passionate, done!                      

Apples on the bough, we two, I lie beside    

My One. She’s you.                  

 

Brian P.T. Blake

Shelton, Connecticut

December 29, 2010

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Annotations 

Title.  The Green Man: Pagan god of fertility, ripe fields and plentiful herds. 

Line 1.  Father Sun:  The male creative principle, antecedent of Christian God the Father, God the Son. Cognate with Egyptian god Amun-Ra, the Great Sun, giver of life.  Pan pipes nature’s lingua verte, the Green Tongue of birds and dragons. Aries, first sign of the zodiac, is the Radiant Sun. 

Line 6. “To Life!”: Jewish wedding toast, invoking joy in the new generation now beginning.

Line 8. Nymphs: The female creative principle, celebrated in Greek and Roman art.

Line 12. “Apples on the bough, we two”: Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden; W.B. Yeats, “The Song of Wandering Angus,” of a fairy goddess “with apple blossoms in her hair.” American folksong, “Don’t sit under the apple tree/ With anyone else but me.” 

Line 13. “My One”: Two in love make one, equal in the sight of God.

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How Does My Garden Grow

Sow True Seed has signed on to sponsor the Blind Pig & the Acorn's garden this year again-and I couldn't be happier!

A few weeks ago, Chitter and I planted Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce, Detroit Beets, Dwarf Grey Sugar Snap Peas, and Sparkler Radishes.

We have several small garden areas and a few raised beds at our house, then we share the big garden with Pap and Granny. The Deer Hunter usually uses a tiller to break up the ground in our bigger garden spots around the house-but my impatience to get early spring veggies in the ground usually means I turn those beds over good with a hoe when I first plant in the spring.

Sometime last fall, The Deer Hunter invested in a new (old) tractor to try and keep our driveway in better shape-of course taking care of gardening chores was also in the back of his mind. And a few weeks ago he was able to purchase a tiller attachment for his tractor.

I'm not sure my life will ever be the same...I mean how did I ever live without that tiller attachment?

I was about to tackle the beds with my hoe when he said "Why don't I use the tractor?" I said "Just for that little bit?" He said "Well ain't that why we got it-to use it?" I said "OK."

Me and Chitter moved the rocks and logs I had separating the small beds-and lickety split I had a plowed garden. All that back breaking work done-in no more than 7 or 8 minutes time. And oh how nice it made the dirt-loose, light, and deep!

Skip back ahead to this past weekend, after fighting a miserable cold all week, we finally pulled ourselves outside Saturday. Everyone else beat me to it-I laid down and fell asleep on the couch. When I woke up I was all alone-with no one left to answer my shouts of "Where's everybody at?" 

I pulled on a sweatshirt got a glass of water and went to find them. I didn't have to look far-they were working in the greenhouse-cleaning out the grass that had grown up inside over the winter. 

I sit in a chair and watched them until I was inspired to help. In a couple of hours we got all our tomato plants started. We planted: Cherokee Purples, Mountain Princess (the best tomato producer we've ever grown-with great taste too), Yellow and Pink Brandywines, and Cream and Sausage. Thanks to Sow True Seed-and to Cee we're getting to try a few new Tomato varieties as well: Green Zebra, Black Cherry, and Ox Heart. 

I was anxious to see if the seeds me and Chitter planted a few weeks ago, survived all the consecutive nights of freezing temps-I know spring veggies can stand the cold-but it's been really cold here in southern Appalachia. But as you can see from the photo above-the seeds are up and doing good.

After the girls made us a quick lunch of left over deer meat wraps we all felt energized to tackle another project. The Deer Hunter worked his magic with his new tractor attachment and before you knew it we had a brand new garden patch. We mixed in a couple wheel barrels of mushroom compost and planted 2 rows of onions around the edges-Chitter is studying on what she wants to plant in the rest of it-I'm pushing for watermelons but we'll see.

By this point we were all about to drop-but I said "You know it's supposed to rain tomorrow, it'd really be good if we could get Granny and Pap's little gardens plowed too." 

After a general pep talk we decided we could do it-so me and the girls headed down to move all the rocks, boards, and poles from Pap and Granny's gardens and The Deer Hunter followed us on his tractor. 

We got lettuce, peas, and 8 rows of onions planted for Pap and Granny. I don't know who was happier Granny thinking about how good those fresh veggies will taste or all of us for having the chore finished.

There were a few rests along the way. Granny scolded Chatter for laying on the cold ground saying she'd catch her death of cold-Chatter said "In the current situation I don't think that will matter much Granny." 

We were beyond tickled with everything we managed to get done-especially since we had been feeling so bad. I think it did us all good to be out in the fresh air surrounded by the beauty of spring. The only downside to the whole thing is-after me and Granny seen how well The Deer Hunter's new tiller attachment works-there may not be a piece of yard left within a few square miles. 

Tipper

p.s. If you live close enough-come out to the 2nd Annual Martins Creek Jamboree. Listen to good music (I hear The Pressley Girls will be performing), eat some good food, and pick up some bargains-all to help the community center raise money for much needed electrical work on the building. Saturday April 6 -starts at 8am.

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Planting By The Signs April 2013 & A Special Birthday Wish

Can you believe April is here? I managed to get a few things planted in March-even with our colder than usual spring they all seem to be doing good so far. Over the weekend, we got an impressive amount of work done-even though most of us felt miserable with a bad cold. We drank lots of water, took freqent breaks, and kept on trucking. Granny says we probably took cold from going out in the snow without enough warm clothes on last week.

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A few weeks ago, a little bird told me today was Charles Fletcher's 91st birthday! I got the girls to sing for him and thought you might enjoy the tune too.

(*Before you watch the video you need to stop the music player-the music controls are along the top of this page on the far left side-just under the Blind Pig logo. Click the center round button to stop the player.) *For those of you who have trouble viewing the video-go straight to youtube to see it by clicking here.

 

Happy Birthday Charles!

Drop back by tomorrow and I'll tell you about the gardening we did over the weekend.

Tipper

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Planting By The Signs March 2013

(click on Calendar to see a larger version)

March seems to be roaring in like a lion here in Western NC-but I know Spring is just around the corner and it's time to start thinking about this summer's garden.

Sow True Seed has signed on to sponsor the Blind Pig garden once again this year-I'm so excited!! I was so pleased with all my Sow True Seeds last year-that I know this summer will be another banner gardening season for us. 

If you've never heard of Sow True Seed-they are located in Asheville NC. They also have a great website you can order from. A digital catalog is available online-so you can browse through it and see all the goodies Sow True Seed has available (go here to see the catalog).

With an eye on the future, Sow True Seed has taken a stand to help insure the purity of open-pollinated and heirloom seeds-so future generations can continue to grow their favorite veggies-save their seed from year to year and continue the circle of growing that our ancestors have handed down to us. You can read more about their endeavor by going here.

Sow True Seed has an impressive selection of vegetable, flower, herb, and cover crop seeds.

• They offer open-pollinated, non hybrid, and untreated seed-meaning you can save your seed from year to year with each new plant's yield staying true to the original yield.
• Much of their seed production is USDA Certified Organic-and they're striving to increase their organic varieties each year.
• Heirloom seeds-which are always open pollinated-make up most of Sow True Seed's inventory.

Sow True Seed also offers programs such as:

• A Wholesale Rack Program for retail stores
• A Fund Raising Program for schools and other organizations
• The Community Seed Exchange offers a great opportunity for gardeners local to the Asheville area.

In addition you can get seed collections, seed garlic, sweet potato slips, seed potatoes, and a variety of how to/gardening books from Sow True Seed. And there are many free resources offered on their site such as a planting guide and a seed saving guide.

Sow True Seed has a great blog-where you can learn all sorts of interesting things about gardening. You can subscribe to the blog-which is FREE. If you're on Facebook-Sow True Seed has a page on there too-which is a great way to find out about their special sales.

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This year the Blind Pig & The Acorn's Planting By The Signs Test is going to be radically different. After the weather woes of the last 2 growing seasons, I decided a broader approach would benefit our testing. 

I'll share a calendar-like the one above for each month from now to August. If you decided to play along you can use the calendar to plant your seeds. At the end of the growing season you can give Blind Pig readers a general overview of how attempting to plant by the signs helped or didn't seem to help your garden production. And if you're not interested in playing along-you can see how my garden turns out as I use the monthly calendars and share the details here on the Blind Pig. 

Stick around for more gardening posts-coming soon!

Tipper

p.s. Hopefully I'll have the music back soon!! And Jann was the winner of the CD! Please email your address to me Jann at: tipper@blindpigandtheacorn.com 

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Greenhouse Update

Back in the summer, I told you about the hail storms that damaged our greenhouse. Between then and now-the plastic disintegrated into a bunch of ghostly looking pieces that flapped in the wind.

Every time I walked out to feed the chickens I tried not to look at the greenhouse-it was in such shambles that it made me feel guilty-like all our hard work was for naught.

We ordered the plastic to recover it a while back-but you know how it goes-first one thing then another came up and we never got around to fixing it-until this weekend.

The Deer Hunter said we should look at having to recover the greenhouse as a learning experience-as a chance to change things we wished we'd done differently the first go around.

This time we bought a better quality of plastic specifically made for greenhouses. The first time-we bought standard 6ml plastic. I'm positive the new plastic isn't hail proof either-but I do think it will hold up better under the weather.

Once the hail had damaged the first plastic-it began to give way at all the pressure points. After studying on the issue for the last few months The Deer Hunter came up with an idea-he used foam pipe insulation to cover the pipe/wood areas that came in direct contact with the plastic. The pipe insulation will also help protect our spring seedlings as it seals off some of the air gaps too.

I think we may be prouder of the greenhouse now-than when we first built it. It always feels so good to get something done that you know needs doing. And before you know it-it'll be time to start my seedlings for next summer's garden.

If you want to see how the greenhouse is constructed-you can click here.

Tipper

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Results From The 4th Annual Planting By The Signs Test

The 4th Annual Blind Pig & The Acorn's Planting By The Signs test kicked off in May of this year. The growing conditions the participants endured have been varied. In my neck of the woods summer start off with a heat wave. We had several days of over 100 degree weather with not a rain cloud in sight-a very unusual occurence in my area. Other places have had so much rain their plants have almost floated away! Such is the way of Mother Nature.

October beans were this year's test plant. The seeds were generously donated by Sow True Seed. My bean plants were very interesting to watch. My bad day plants were almost twice as big as my good day plants from the start. The good day never did catch up in size to the bad day plants. Both day's plants seemed to produce the same amount of beans over the course of the summer.

I went to check on the plants one last time about 3 weeks ago. The beans had sufficiently dried enough for me to pick and hull them out. The strangest thing had happened to the actual plants. Something had eaten every last leaf off the bad day plants-they were completely bare. But the good day plants-growing less than a foot away had not been touched by the munching leaf eater.

I had a few participants send me their results from the test:

• Warren: Our entire garden was a bust this year. My beans started out great but the dry heat took over and we just couldn't water sufficiently. We got a few squash and a single mess of green beans. The only thing that seems to be still somewhat ok is the sunflowers. Anyhow, I cannot comment on planting by the signs this year because nothing was going to help.  
• Ron Creager: Three out of four seeds emerged from both the good and bad planting days. All produced heavy loads of pods about 2 weeks sooner than 1/2 runners I planted about the same time. Not anything scientific but I would judge a slight advantage to the good day seeds both in size and production. We suffered a long and severe drought this summer so the seeds proved a hardy variety. I allowed the pods to mature and have been hulling them out. They produced a large, pretty white and purple bean that I will save for seed.
• Barbara Gantt: The good day beans did far better than the bad day ones. I am saving my beans for seed for next year so we can have a whole row. Hopefully, they will get planted on the good days.
• Quinn: This has been a difficult planting season for me...either days and days of rain, or very hot and humid. I confess, those h&h days are when farm stands seem like a very fine idea to me! I did get out and plant both vegetables and flowers on a day in between the rainy spells, but not one seed has come up that I've discovered! I think the seed must have rotted...or maybe they were even washed downslope in the rainy days that followed? Kind of disappointing, and I've been no help at ALL in the planting by the moon project...sorry, Tipper!
• Jeanna Morgan: I will have to go look but my husband forgot I planted them and started a ridge over top of them. He then realized what he had done and took back  off some of the dirt he had put on them. So mine are a bust. I hadn't seen but two small sprouts and one was a good day one and one a bad. So anyway I guess mine are a no go. 
• Linda Kerlin: My beans did not do well at all the good day beans died -----for awhile the foliage was beautiful blossoms and then the next day dead---the bad day beans followed shortly---to be honest as well I ended up not taking very good care of my garden this year so perhaps some of what I lost was my fault --did not even get to water some days---my Dad fell at the end of June and spent wks in the hospital and then when he went home he needed much care.
• Tammy Fletcher: I planted on May 23 (good day) and May 26th (bad day). I got 50%  germination on the May 23rd planting and 100% on May 26th. May 23rd planted beans seemed to yield more per plant.

So there you go! Do I dare say our experiment didn't amount to a hill of beans : ) Oh well we had fun-and that's what matters most!

If you participated in the test-please feel free to leave your results in a comment. If you're interested-be on the look out next Spring-I'm sure I'll find something for to use in another planting by the signs test.

A big THANK YOU to Sow True Seed for sponsoring my test-and to all the folks who played along.

Tipper

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How Does My Garden Grow 3

Our garden is still going strong. This is the first year we've tried to stagger our plantings in an effort to extend our harvest season. Our first round of corn is almost gone-but our second round is coming on strong. The unusual high temperatures and dry weather we experienced at the beginning of the summer was hard on our first corn. The more moderate temps and frequent rain we've had recently seem to have been perfect for our second planting of corn-it looks lovely.

We still have beans galore-peanut and white-half runners.

Our zucchini plants have done so so this year. And for the second year in a row our yellow squash plants have been almost a total waste of time. The plants grow great-they just don't produce.

Remember my plumgranny from last summer? I planted the seed I saved-and have several growing-I can't wait to see if they smell as fragrant as the one from last summer.

My blueberries have been few and far between this summer. Last summer some unknown bird ate every last one of them! This year they just haven't produced much. I think I need to trim the trees around them-and prune the bushes a little too.

Green peppers , banana peppers , and cucumbers are all still going strong.

That early dry heat took a tole on our watermelon and cantaloupe plants. The ones in the big garden were so pitiful The Deer Hunter tilled them up back in the first part of July. Now at this late stage in the game-one of Chitter's watermelon plants has decided to produce. She's so excited about it-but I told her it may not have time to fully develop-she said she'd eat it anyway!

The tomatoes are still producing so well that I can barely keep my kitchen counter clear of them.

All in all we've had a super garden season. It started out on the right foot when Sow True Seed signed on to sponsor the Blind Pig garden-and just kept getting better from there. The only real failure was our squash-I even tried planting it in a totally different part of the garden this year-but that didn't seem to help either. We've grown bookoos of squash in years past-just not in the last 2.

If you were a participant in the 4th Annual Blind Pig & The Acorn's Planting By The Signs Test-please send me your final results at tipper@blindpigandtheacorn.com

How does your garden grow?

Tipper

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Planting A Fall Garden

The last few days have brought slightly cooler temps to Western NC with just the tiniest hint of fall. My summer garden is still producing but my mind is already thinking of what I'll plant in my fall garden.

Today's guest post is courtesy of Sow True Seeds which is an open-pollinated, GMO-free vegetable, herb and flower seed company specializing in Southern Appalachia varieties.

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Fall - Winter Gardens written by Sow True Seeds

After battling weeds and garden pests all summer, a fall-winter garden can be a delightful reprieve from those garden stressors, and fill your veggie basket or crockpot full of delicious produce. The key to a successful fall and winter garden is planning, so though you may be feeling overwhelmed (and delighted!) with the current avalanche of tomatoes and peppers, now is the time to plan and plant. With just a little bit of forethought you can be harvesting fresh vegetables in the snow.

In fall and winter, gardeners should be aware of two factors that will affect their harvest success: temperature and day length. As the days get shorter, plants slow their growth until finally going dormant in the deep winter months of December and January. Greens can still be harvested but they won’t rebound until the days get long again. While outdoor gardeners can’t control the day length, they can plant more plants then usual and expect longer maturity times to account for the slow growth.

Changes in temperature have a much more dramatic effect on gardens. Some plants tolerate a light frost and actually taste sweeter after the cold like carrots and kale. Others, like lettuce, are more easily damaged so keep an eye on the weather, particularly nighttime lows. Early cold snaps can kill young starts, so be prepared to protect vulnerable plants with row covers if the night temperature dips below freezing before your vegetables are fully mature.

The trick to planning a fall-winter garden is making sure the plants are fully mature before the days get too short and the nights too cold. A good rule of thumb is to find your first frost date and then count backwards the days until maturity information on your seed packet.  Frost dates can vary up to a month in WNC so check with the NC Cooperative Extension Agency for the date specific to your micro-climate.

For example, radishes are an excellent fall-winter garden choice because they mature quickly. Our French Breakfast Radishes reach maturity in 24 days, so if you were planting them in the Asheville area you would look at the frost date Oct 23^rd on a calendar and count back 24 days – giving you the window of now until September 29^th to sow radish seeds in your garden.

But don’t wait until September to start planting radishes! To extend your harvest, use succession planting. For lettuces and root crops like carrots, beets or radishes, direct seed a few feet every couple of weeks and you’ll ensure a bounty of vegetables throughout the fall and early winter.

Would you like to try something new this fall?  Many folks think of peas as an early spring variety, but shelling, snap, or snow peas like Mammoth Melting or Super Sugar Snap peas do quite well direct seeded in a fall garden – don’t forget to add a trellis as these varieties love to climb. Plant onion seed soon for spring harvest (intermediate or short day onions work best for the Asheville region, try our Red Torpedo onion) and seed garlic in late fall for early summer harvest.

If you haven’t already started some of the slower maturing varieties like broccoli, cauliflower or brussel sprouts, purchase these as starts. Sow True Seed will be offering a selection of fall and winter starts in our retail store beginning in early September.

Even if you don’t plant a fall and winter garden, consider seeding a fall cover crop, like our Organic Fall Planted Soil Builder Mix, into your unused space. Cover crops are a great way to enrich tired soils by incorporating vital organic matter and adding nitrogen, while also protecting bare ground from erosion, suppressing weeds, and improving the overall structure and water storage capacity of your soil.

With proper planning and a just a little bit of maintenance, fall and winter gardens can provide the home gardener with a bounty fresh vegetables throughout the cold season without the same headaches (read: weeds and garden pests) that we experience in the warmer weather. Happy growing!

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Sow True Seeds sponsored my garden this year-and The 4th Annual Blind Pig & the Acorn Planting By The Signs Test. If you were a participant in the test, please email the results of your test to me at tipper@blindpigandtheacorn.com

I hope you enjoyed the thoughts Sow True Seeds shared on planting a fall garden. Even though my kitchen counters are still full of garden bounty-their guest post makes me want to start making a list of fall garden items to plant.

Do you plant a fall garden too?

Tipper

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