Planting for a 4-Season Harvest, Part 9
Mid-Summer
Plantings
Certain plantings should be
made in midsummer to provide more fresh food for late fall and, in some
cases, even winter. If the weather is hot and dry, be sure to
water
furrows and drills both before and after planting, and every day until
seeds sprout. Here's how I do it:
1---Beets --- soak seeds
several hours before sowing;
2---Carrots --- plant all
you have room for, perhaps on the early corn and bush bean sites;
3---Kale;
4---Turnips --- varieties
grown only for tops; Just Right has good top growth plus large white
roots;
5---Lettuce --- one short
sowing. Read
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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