It’s a cold, drizzly day here in MA. But figured it was as good of a day as any to post about my fall sowing experience so far.
**PIC #1:** is the result of ***repeated*** sowings of several cool season crops (peas, carrots, kale, spinach) since mid-late August in a bed that had heavy jumping worm activity this season. The larger chard and marigolds are from earlier in the season, but out of the rest of the late season sowings, maybe only 2 carrots and a couple unwanted weeds have germinated. My spring cool season crops and the transplanted pepper plants that I started indoors did well in this bed prior to the fall crop sowings.
**PIC #2:** is the result of a single sowing about two weeks ago of a mix of chard, kale, bok choy, Gai lan. I added spinach seeds a few days ago on the right but it’s still a bit early for them to sprout. This bed has no sightings of jumping worms in it, and most of the seeds planted have at least germinated. This bed had an early mix of kale, chard, spinach…and later tomatoes and pole beans…before these seeds were sown.
bestkittens
Ugh I’m sorry 😣
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I would be tempted to build a fire on top.
Altruistic-Falcon552
For carrots which require shallow planting and don’t like temps above 80 you might try; prepare bed and plant seems in a row, water deeply, place sticks or stakes across the row and then place a plank over the row resting on the stakes. This will keep them cool and reduce evaporation. Worked for me after a few failed attempts. Remove the board as soon as you see germination
02meepmeep
I had trouble getting things to sprout this fall in Houston but I thought it was the temperature. Maybe it’s the seeds, too?
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It’s a cold, drizzly day here in MA. But figured it was as good of a day as any to post about my fall sowing experience so far.
**PIC #1:** is the result of ***repeated*** sowings of several cool season crops (peas, carrots, kale, spinach) since mid-late August in a bed that had heavy jumping worm activity this season. The larger chard and marigolds are from earlier in the season, but out of the rest of the late season sowings, maybe only 2 carrots and a couple unwanted weeds have germinated. My spring cool season crops and the transplanted pepper plants that I started indoors did well in this bed prior to the fall crop sowings.
**PIC #2:** is the result of a single sowing about two weeks ago of a mix of chard, kale, bok choy, Gai lan. I added spinach seeds a few days ago on the right but it’s still a bit early for them to sprout. This bed has no sightings of jumping worms in it, and most of the seeds planted have at least germinated. This bed had an early mix of kale, chard, spinach…and later tomatoes and pole beans…before these seeds were sown.
Ugh I’m sorry 😣
I would be tempted to build a fire on top.
For carrots which require shallow planting and don’t like temps above 80 you might try; prepare bed and plant seems in a row, water deeply, place sticks or stakes across the row and then place a plank over the row resting on the stakes. This will keep them cool and reduce evaporation. Worked for me after a few failed attempts.
Remove the board as soon as you see germination
I had trouble getting things to sprout this fall in Houston but I thought it was the temperature. Maybe it’s the seeds, too?