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Edible Landscape Update: January 11, 2012
It’s time to plant lettuces, peas, beets and cool weather crops.
This week I turned over our vegetable gardens. You do this when the garden soil is a bit dry. First, pull out all the spent foliage, then just start digging, one shovel full at a time, sifting through the clumps to remove old roots and weeds.
The places I turned over had tomatoes, basil and squashes growing in them last summer. Turning over your garden is hard ass farmer work. But you don’t have to go to the gym the day you do it. Or the next day. It’s a good idea to stretch though. And the fresh air and sunshine are beauteous! I love this time of year in my neck of the woods. Nothing compares to Winter in Southern California. Please don’t hate me. In exchange for this wondrous Winter weather, we have earthquakes and mudslides.
In the midwest you can plant cool season crops starting around mid to late March.
The first two pictures here are “volunteer” red lettuce from seeds that planted themselves. The seeds must have flown hither and yon as they were drying on the plant. It’s good to get familiar with seedling identification when you’re growing your own veggies, so you don’t accidentally pull out volunteer plants while weeding.
To get seeds from my favorite plants, I let them flower and then let the flowers dry on the plant. Once they’re dry, pull the plant out, and scrunch up the flowers onto some paper. You’ll see a bunch of little seeds come sprinkling out.
In the case of the sugar snap peas, you just don’t pick the last few, reduce watering a bit, and the peas become seeds as they dry on the vine. You end up with totally free, organically grown seeds.
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