Meadowlark
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1) Carrots I can do but cannot start them Aug. 15. Too hot until late Oct. to start carrots here.
2) I have tried, unsuccessfully, for 43 years to grow celery in my climate. My climate does not have the required cool days without freezing that is needed for celery, unfortunately. I wish it weren't so. Celery is one of only a handful of veggies I have to buy commercially...and I hate that.
3) I grow 200 pounds of onions for my family every year. I start them in Nov. and harvest the following mid-May. Doesn't fit the timeline for this experiment.
It's hard to measure production of marigolds, maybe by flowers? Radishes I can do. Beets too hot here in mid-August. Multi-cropping, I was doing before anyone ever gave it a name, LOL.
Maybe we need to adjust the timeline?
My candidates are for each row/set of containers: 1) two cabbage plants, two broccoli plants, two collard plants, two different kinds of lettuce, one tomato plant, possibly one potato plant but are potato plants prohibited in no dig? and the remaining space in Swiss Chard but I'll do whatever as long as it will grow in my climate conditions. The Three containers won't hold as much as 10 ft row so some things will have to be left out of them. Regardless the two rows will be identical.
2) I have tried, unsuccessfully, for 43 years to grow celery in my climate. My climate does not have the required cool days without freezing that is needed for celery, unfortunately. I wish it weren't so. Celery is one of only a handful of veggies I have to buy commercially...and I hate that.
3) I grow 200 pounds of onions for my family every year. I start them in Nov. and harvest the following mid-May. Doesn't fit the timeline for this experiment.
It's hard to measure production of marigolds, maybe by flowers? Radishes I can do. Beets too hot here in mid-August. Multi-cropping, I was doing before anyone ever gave it a name, LOL.
Maybe we need to adjust the timeline?
My candidates are for each row/set of containers: 1) two cabbage plants, two broccoli plants, two collard plants, two different kinds of lettuce, one tomato plant, possibly one potato plant but are potato plants prohibited in no dig? and the remaining space in Swiss Chard but I'll do whatever as long as it will grow in my climate conditions. The Three containers won't hold as much as 10 ft row so some things will have to be left out of them. Regardless the two rows will be identical.