Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Ralph Sole" <rsole@kc.rr.com>]

Thanks for all the great info.
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From: "bella luna" <spirit@lobo.net>
To: <kcnotill@googlegroups.com>; <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] [KC No-Till] Slow Global Warming while 
Gardening


March: This is a busy month. We will plant our sugar snap peas as soon as 
the soil thaws enough to plant.

You can plant potatoes around the middle of March. John Williams at Kansas 
City Community Gardens advises planting a little later than St Patrick's Day 
because if the potatoes sprout and, due to unpredictable weather, it 
freezes, the tubers have to start all over again with less energy available.

Since onion maturity is triggered by the length of day, for Kansas City's 
latitude you should buy medium day length plants or seeds. Onions go in 
around 15 March. Plant the small plants or sets that you can buy rubber 
banded together at garden stores. Onions need a lot of water and fertilizer, 
and no competition from weeds, so mulch heavily.
Also see Planting Onion Plants for green onions.

The broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale planting date is listed by Kansas 
City Community Gardens is March 20 to April 15. If you plant too early or 
the weather is unseasonably cold with the broccoli and maybe the cauliflower 
you run the risk of stimulating your plants to button instead of forming a 
full head. Buttoning can happen if the temperature stays low for an extended 
time. It can also happen if you bring your transplants outdoors into the 
cold too suddenly. You can keep the plants in the beds a little warmer with 
row covers but not much.

Plant spinach seed as soon as you as it thaws and you can work the ground in 
the spring. You can also plant in the fall after it's cool or up until 
December for the following spring. Spinach does not like the heat and is 
done when it gets hot. Watch our fall spinach seeding video. You do not need 
to buy a mechanical seeder. Hand seeding works just fine.

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On 2/4/2011 at 1:50 PM Marty Kraft wrote:

> Hi
>
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