What vegetables to plant in late summer?
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I live in the California wine country, which is about 60 miles north of San Francisco. At this time of year we are still likely to have a few more hot spells before the weather starts cooling off in September. And there is no danger of seeing any frost until mid December, so the growing season is very long.
So my question is what can I plant this time of year? It seem like it’s still too early to do lettuce and other cool weather plants, but too late to plant melons or tomatoes.
I included a picture of my seed stash, since the selection of vegetable seed is pretty bad at this time of the year.
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Verthandei wrote:
I’ve been wondering the same thing… I live east of the Berkeley/Oakland hills, and it’s practically guaranteed we’ll get a few more hot spells (like Wed-Fri of last week – holy cow!) Plus we almost never get below freezing (and when we do my solution is to just cover everything up for the night – I haven’t had anything die from cold yet…) Anyway. It seems like everyone is talking about fall planting but it hardly seems like it’s time. Yet, I know my CSA (located in Capay Valley) has already planted out their transplants of leek, fennel, kale, collards (no more collards!), and cabbages, and have started direct seeding of the fall spinach, carrot, bok choi, radish, lettuce, (which will continue through Nov!) and soon will be doing fall peas, onions, and garlic (if they haven’t already started). This probably means that I should have been doing this already too. :)
Posted on 17 Aug 08 (about 4 months ago)
Cmagnus wrote:
I would find a local nursery or farm market and see what they have in stock. They’ll probably have things that are appropriately timed to plant now, even if you think it’s too early for fall crops or you’ve missed some seed starting window. Or you could just put in some traditional fall crops but don’t use all your seed. See how they do. If it was too early, you’ll know next time and have seeds for a second batch. If it wasn’t too early, you can plant more later and call it succession planting.
Posted on 17 Aug 08 (about 4 months ago)