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[keith bellinger <bartermn AT epix.net>]

Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> I wish you could have helped too, I need help on that.  So.... you have grown 
> them as a spring crop and gotten tight heads??   I was beginning to put a lot 
> of credibility in the fall crop idea from what I was reading.  I'm trying it 
> both ways ... all fourteen ways.
>  

Yep, one of my first crops to go in. I prepared their bed today. But, 
that said, they are often still producing when everything else is pulled 
for the winter. I've had to brush the snow away to harvest them many a 
year. My best guess without going through journals is that they need 
cool temps.

> > You ever stake them? 
> >    
>
> Yes, I often stake them.  I get great colossal plants ... all with miserable 
> heads.
>  

What do you use to tie them with?