Do you plant anything in the fall? Winter garlic and winter

@writersedge (22563)
United States
September 18, 2009 7:08am CST
onions are about all we can plant that will survive up here. People with gentler climates or who have green houses or high tunnels can plant other things if they keep their stuctures warm. Some people have window sill gardens for winter. Others are still harvesting. So what are you up to in your garden this fall?
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6 responses
@Baluyadav (3643)
• India
18 Sep 09
Hi,i didn't know your seasonal climatic temperatures which are suitable for different crops in main field and in kitchen garden.But i can help you in the case of pest and disease incidence occure to your garden,i can prescribe pesticides and fungicides to control them as i completed my postgraduation in Agriculture.All the best and happy mylotting.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
18 Sep 09
That's nice, did you learn the organic ones, too?
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
18 Sep 09
I'm thinking of planting some grass - because my back yard is a mud pit and the grass needs the winter sun to get started - since the summer is so shady
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
18 Sep 09
as IF I could get a picture to post! dern it!
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
19 Sep 09
You don't have any kind of camera or is it that you have no way to scan it in?
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
18 Sep 09
Sounds like a plan. I would like sweetgrass seeds if I ever did that. But mostly I would just want really, really short plants so I wouldn't have to mow lawn at all. Maybe you could do before and after pictures plus start a discussion about it. Thanks and take care.
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@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
19 Sep 09
I still have tomatoes and peppers. Weather is not too cold here yet. They need more attention than I am giving them, though.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
19 Sep 09
We have 50, 40, and occasionally upper 30 degree nights (lower in the mountains, I'm in the valley). Days are 60, 70, or 80. That's understandable, you've been very busy. I had to give up on my garden when I took care of the couple, too exhausted, even when I was home they were calling me and I did 60 hours one week plus their phone calls.
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@laglen (19759)
• United States
18 Sep 09
We are still harvesting and for late fall, we grow, onions, brussel sprouts, broccoli, peas, carrots, potatoes, squash and pumpkins.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
18 Sep 09
Wow, you must have a very late fall, we have a short one and then snow. We can only harvest in fall. Except the people that grow winter onions and garlic, we're done in the fall unless we have a green house or high tunnel or window sill garden. Thanks for your response, I've never grown brussel sprouts, but I do know they grow here. We had an incredible squash and pumpkin season.
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@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
18 Sep 09
Garlic...nothing but Garlic, as it is the only crop that I can be assured that it will Survive...as the winters have been so unpredictable lately! In past have planted others, but am so depressed, even tho' mulched with straw, that I lose them! This year I plan on putting in about 300 garlics..a variety of hard neck and soft neck! I just love having my own garlic, knowing that it has NOT been gassed to prevent it from sprouting. I share with my son! I am still harvesting tomatoes, cukes, scarlet runner beans..and the last few zucchini aren't making much of a statement. Not a cucubit year! Happy weekend...and Cheers!
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
18 Sep 09
Wow! 300, that is sooo cool. I'd like that many elephant garlics. I have Egyption onions and those babies are tough! They make it through our sub-zero winters just fine. Soft neck make it through winter? I was told only hardnecks do. I don't know scarlet runner beans. Please tell me about them.
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• Canada
21 Sep 09
Sorry, dear girl, for taking so long to respond! Yes, we NORMALLY do NOT get much frost, so soft-necks have a happy life here. I normally use the soft-necks for fusions....but the hard necks are my love. If I got off my butt, and built some more garden beds, I would even grow more...as it is so easy to sell here...and so maintenance free! I change the plantings every year, so that I don't get diseases! What I really want to grow...believe it or not is Horseradish, but I can't seem to source any plants here, and I can't get them thru Customs from the US! Scarlet runner beans, grow on a vine, sorta like Jack & the Bean Stock, they have lovely scarlet flowers, and are almost identical to a Kidney Bean! I like them so much better for dehydrating, and they take up so little space growing horizontally. Sure do miss gardening in the winter. I forgot to say, in my fallow beds (where I don't have Garlic) I plant Fall Rye - high nitrogen producer, and rototill it in in the Spring. A great Green Manure! Hope your weekend was spectacular...the coming week, even better. Cheers!
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
22 Sep 09
Thank you for the explanations, sounds great!
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@djonghs (560)
• Indonesia
20 Sep 09
Lucky me, I don't have any cold season to worry about.... I waiting for my Melon to bare a fruits....but sadly I only see 3 flowers that able to turn to fruit......I hope I do more lucky next time. BR.b
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
1 Oct 09
Well three melons are better than no melons and maybe the rest of the plants are just slow producing flowers. Let us know how they turn out. Thanks for responding.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
6 Oct 09
I do hope you get the one. 1 year, we had many, but the night before we were to pick them, raccoons ate them all!
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@djonghs (560)
• Indonesia
5 Oct 09
In the end, only one fruit able to grow... it is about a size of baseball now..... I try my best to take care of it and can't wait to taste it.. After short harvest(because only one fruit ), I will try to plan it again....and do crossing more fingers BR.b
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