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Fall Carrots / Plantings
Today I planted some fall vegetables. All except the carrots are the same spring variety’s I planted earlier this year. I did plant two types of spinach earlier in the year but today I just went for the 45 day variety. Hoping to get it in and up and harvested in this short fall season. I also put more peas in along with a couple lettuce variety’s.
As for the carrots, the spring planted carrots are the ones I will pull and eat all winter, as you can see in this picture I am still thinning and these made a nice quick snack earlier. I store carrots in the ground during the winter and just use them right out of the garden. They actually just get sweeter as it gets colder. The type I planted today are new type for me, they are the Merida Hybrid from Territorial Seed and they are an overwintering carrot. Planted today, at a 240 day maturity I will be eating these early next summer after the spring carrots from this year are all gone and the spring carrots next year are just getting started.
To have year round vegetables means year round planning and planting.
Still to go in this weekend are onion sets, leeks and garlic. I do have onions and leeks already in from earlier this year but I am trying to get year round vegetables. I am hoping to have mature leeks this winter just in time for some yummy fall risotto’s.
I am going to plant a cover crop in where the beans, corn and tomatoes are all out to dig that in next spring for soil nutrients.
Posted by Valria on September 8th, 2007 under Garden Planning, Harvest & Succession Planting, Year-Round Gardening
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