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  • From: "Shoemaker, William H" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] hardiness of cabbage, garlic?
  • Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:49:53 +0000

Onions are pretty cold hardy, and so is cabbage. But 23oF is awfully cold. When it comes down to it, it will depend on how cold it gets, and how long. Each growing site will be slightly different due to landscape patterns. Low spots will get coldest. Spots where cold air funnels as it drains lower can get colder temperatures. Using mitigation strategies such as covering the plants can help a lot. 2-3oF difference can mean a lot in that range of freezing risk. I consider a forecast of anything colder than 25oF a serious risk to most spring vegetables. Cabbage won't button, but it can be damaged enough to kill it below that temperature.

 

Looks like another wild ride this Spring.

 

Bill

William H. Shoemaker

University of Illinois, Crop Sciences

St Charles Horticulture Research Center

535 Randall Road, St Charles, IL  60174

630-584-7254, wshoemak AT illinois.edu


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] on behalf of clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com [clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 12:39 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] hardiness of cabbage, garlic?

Would you say that the same holds true for onion sets?  Asian greens, beets, chard, radishes?

Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] hardiness of cabbage, garlic?
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:28:02 -0400

I'm not sure about the cabbage, as I don't grow this for very early season and mine is still very tiny transplants, which I try not to let freeze (they'll be hauled back in from the unheated greenhouse tonight.)

But I wouldn't worry about the garlic; it should be fine. I've never row covered it; it always comes up through the straw shortly after the ground thaws in the spring (not that the ground was frozen this spring in the first place . . . ) and I've never seed cold damage on it, though cold weather does slow down growth.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale




On Apr 27, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Beth Spaugh wrote:

I know napa cabbage is very cold hardy, and I think Early Jersey Wakefield is too.  But, does cabbage “button” from cold as broccoli does?  I am trying to avoid covering the plants (4 leaves stage), or even wondering if it is worth it to cover them.  Garlic is about 16 – 24” tall.  Any thoughts on the garlic?  I cut the row cover that had been on the garlic in two since it had torn, and it is quite windy to be handling row cover.  Forecast here is 23.

 

Beth Spaugh

Rehoboth Homestead, Peru NY

http://rhomestead.com      http://www.facebook.com/rhomestead

 

"How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry

"Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe

 

 

 

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