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| I've got 2 rows of carrots 1 ft apart - not doing well. Seeded after the holiday per Johnny's calculator, germinated very quickly. I tried to keep them covered with damp burlap on the 90-degree days but lost some and others are growing very slowly. So since these are in a tunnel, I'm going to seed more in the 24 ft of empty beds I have - what can I put in the middle? I think I'll have to keep those beds covered until the carrots germinate, but it might be cool enough during Aug that I can leave the original ones uncovered now. Something that will shade them for the next couple of months like summer squash? Or something low-growing (and shallow rooted) like lettuce? It's a little early for lettuce yet, but about time to seed tatsoi, mustard, kale (late for kale according to Johnny's but in the tunnel should be OK). |
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| I have used buckwheat as a nurse crop for fall carrots, but planted it ahead of the carrots, so that the carrots were sown in openings made in the buckwheat planting. This worked quite well, since buckwheat is so easy to pull out and compost. It looks trashy, but I cover my summer-sown carrot bed with a wire fencing arch topped with an old sheet, attached with clothespins. It's fully ventilated but provides enough shade to get the seeds up and growing. After mid-August, the carrots want full sun. |
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| I have hoops taken off the strawberries, have old sheets (have to see if long enough) just thought wet burlap would be better on the hot days instead of hoops and white sheets. Left the burlap off yesterday AM - hope they haven't burned up today but it's not that hot, did get sunny (but they're in east bed with tall tomatoes to west). Since this is in tunnel I was looking for cash crop not cover crop. |
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