Time for Crucifers
This is the time to plant cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, turnips, kale, rape, mustard and other cold loving crops. Radish, carrots, beets, lettuce and other salad greens can also go in the ground. I planted the things that can be sowed directly 1 and one half weeks ago. Most of them have come up already. The sugar peas, onions, carrots, beets and potatoes are the only thing, planted then that hasn’t come up yet.
This weekend the cabbage, broccoli and Brussels sprouts plants that were started in the greenhouse will go in the ground. Before planting outside tender plants need to be “hardened off”. Thursday and Friday, they will spend the day outside, learning to tolerate wind and temperature fluctuations. Saturday they will go in the ground. I know the rabbits and deer are anxious to see them. For that reason they will be hardened off on a table high enough that the rabbits can’t get them. They go back in the greenhouse at night. Deer don’t come around much during daylight.
When they are planted in the ground they will be protected by a chicken wire cage. This will be buried 4” in the ground to discourage digging. I will only put out about ½ of the plants. If they have problems there are backups in the greenhouse.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
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