Post by nvtashak on May 15, 2006 22:12:01 GMT -6
Okay, brain dead from too much weeding (I can keep up with the garden plots, but it is the rest of the acre like the gravel driveway and turnaround that is doing me in).
I need zone 6 midhigh desert ideas for 6 week crops that can be succession planted for monthly harvest starting late June, at least until my newly transplanted tomatoes, tomatillos, peppers, cucumbers and squash etc. start producing.
It's for a special donation project, organically grown, mostly open pollenated, late getting off the ground (groan) because the local agency had to get permission from the national higherups.
All I can think of is the old standbys of radishes, swiss chard, beet greens, turnip greens, maybe Asian stuff like bok choi and tatsoi and purple mustard and such if they don't bolt from the heat--recently lows in 50's to 60's at night, day highs in upper 80's.
Help. Send suggestions.
What about amaranth greens, spinach (if it doesn't bolt), mesclun (if it doesn't bolt)?
Other ideas?
I need zone 6 midhigh desert ideas for 6 week crops that can be succession planted for monthly harvest starting late June, at least until my newly transplanted tomatoes, tomatillos, peppers, cucumbers and squash etc. start producing.
It's for a special donation project, organically grown, mostly open pollenated, late getting off the ground (groan) because the local agency had to get permission from the national higherups.
All I can think of is the old standbys of radishes, swiss chard, beet greens, turnip greens, maybe Asian stuff like bok choi and tatsoi and purple mustard and such if they don't bolt from the heat--recently lows in 50's to 60's at night, day highs in upper 80's.
Help. Send suggestions.
What about amaranth greens, spinach (if it doesn't bolt), mesclun (if it doesn't bolt)?
Other ideas?
