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5 Easiest Cold-Weather Crops to Grow in Your Spring or Fall Garden
by
Lee @ Lady Lee's Home
(IC: blogger)
Pssst… Come closer. I have a secret to tell you… I don’t like gardening in the Summer.
Here, I said it. Here in the South, Summers are wet as the ocean, humid as a sauna, hot like a furnace, and don’t even start me on the bugs… especially the mosquitos!
I still garden in the Summer, of course, but I much prefer the Fall garden or the early Spring garden. There are much fewer bugs, I don’t need to water almost at all, it is nice and cool so working outside is easier, and it’s not as wet and humid as in the Summer.
Thankfully, there are a ton of cold-weather crops to grow in the Spring and Fall garden.
Here, I said it. Here in the South, Summers are wet as the ocean, humid as a sauna, hot like a furnace, and don’t even start me on the bugs… especially the mosquitos!
I still garden in the Summer, of course, but I much prefer the Fall garden or the early Spring garden. There are much fewer bugs, I don’t need to water almost at all, it is nice and cool so working outside is easier, and it’s not as wet and humid as in the Summer.
Thankfully, there are a ton of cold-weather crops to grow in the Spring and Fall garden.
So, every year, after I clean my raised garden beds from the Summer garden or the Winter garden, I plant a bunch of cold-weather crops. Some of them are not easy to grow, for example, cabbage or broccoli. Others are as simple as can be.
Lettuce: who doesn’t like lettuce? The crisp, juicy, sweet leaves are the perfect base of every good salad and a must ingredient in most sandwiches.
Green Onion: sweet oniony flavor, thick shafts, no bulbs. Like lettuce, green onion is great in salads and sandwiches. It is also used a lot in the Asian kitchen.
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Published August 27th, 2014 8:53 PM
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Liliana Wells on Aug 29, 2014You got me inspired to start again. I planted Romaine and spinach in pots in the Spring. There is nothing like eating your own vegetables. Thanks
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Jane R. on Aug 29, 2014I love Kale. When do you plant it? I don't have a garden but since I just cut sown a huge tree that shaded my whole backyard I thought I'd make a small raised bed garden. How easy is kale to grow?
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