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  • From: "Ralph Sole" <rsole@kc.rr.com>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] [KC No-Till] Slow Global Warming while Gardening
  • Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:34:42 -0600

Thanks for all the great info.
----- Original Message ----- 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

Please visit http://www.organotill.org/calendar, our organic no till
gardening calendar/guide. From the organotill.org site you can follow
the gardening season and watch videos on how we accomplished each task.
The methods we use help sequester carbon and slow climate change while
increasing soil fertility. Please help by sequestering carbon yourself
and sharing this email with every potential or actual gardener that you
know. No till gardening is also less work.

kcnotill.org has been replaced by organotill.org

Thanks

Marty

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