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WSing Vegetables and Succession Plantind -- will this work?
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Posted by emysue zn5 IL (My Page) on Tue, Feb 9, 10 at 13:15
| I've done a little wintersowing over the past few years but I want to get more serious about it.
I also have a small garden at this point -- mostly vegetables. I would like to do succession planting with my veggies. Will wintersown veggies mature in time for me to do this?
Specifically, I would like to plant some cool season crops (lettuce, peas, broccoli, beets, cabbage, spinach, radishes, carrots [does anyone wintersow carrots?]). I'd like them to mature in time to do a second crop in that same area of a short season corn.
I am in zone 5, in the Chicago suburbs. I take Mother's Day as our last frost, although sometimes I decide our last first is earlier in April, if I'm feeling daring. :)
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RE: WSing Vegetables and Succession Plantind -- will this work?
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emysue, If I'm following you correctly you want to plant behind a short season corn? If that is correct then I think that you would have no problem direct sowing any of the crops that you want to plant, with the exception of perhaps cabbage and broccoli, As far as last frost is concerned, it really doesn't make much difference as corn should not be planted until the soil is over 50deg. The seed would not germinate properly and have a good chance of rotting in the ground. Anyway you shouldn't have any problems with the plants you want. Cabbage and broccoli you might want to get
these started from young plants instead of direct seeding. It's often difficult to find seedlings at that time of year. I don't see that you will need to winter sowng anything for this type of planting. Again, if I didn't understand your question correctly, I apologize Luke |
RE: WSing Vegetables and Succession Plantind -- will this work?
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| I want to do cool season crops *before* a short DTM corn. So, I thought I would wintersow the lettuce, peas, broccoli, beets, cabbage, spinach, radishes, and carrots. Then, as they come out I would plant the corn *following* those veggies. My concern was that, from reading the forum, it sounds like wintersown plants are sometimes a little slower to mature than nursery plants or seeds started indoors. So, if my greens and radishes and things take too much longer it wouldn't leave my second crop enough time to mature before our first fall frost. I'm not sure if that is explained any better -- I'm a long time dabbler but still pretty much a newbie. |
RE: WSing Vegetables and Succession Plantind -- will this work?
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| I think that your cool weather crops will do great with the wintersowing. Because they are grown in the containers, they warm up a little bit sooner and therefor sprout a little bit sooner than any that are direct sown in the garden. If you are not sure they will mature in time, you could always do 1/2 of them, and save room for some corn in the other part of the garden. Good luck! |
RE: WSing Vegetables and Succession Plantind -- will this work?
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| Hello neighbor well zone wise, Rock Island here. And what you are proposing will work if you do a companion planting. Carrots and Radishes are hardly worth trying to winter sow and transplant. I usually try to sow succesion crops of lettuce and radishes in my late corn for a fall crop. jim |
RE: WSing Vegetables and Succession Plantind -- will this work?
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| I WSed Berligum, Danvers half, and Little Finger Carrots this year, and they are all sprouting. |
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| Posted by kriswrite zone 8 (My Page) on Wed, Feb 10, 10 at 22:58 I WSed Berligum, Danvers half, and Little Finger Carrots this year, and they are all sprouting I did not say that they would not come up They do not transplant well and do not do well in hunk sowing, plus seeds can be sown early in garden. My comment was to mean just what it said, simply hardly worth the effort. jim |
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