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Re: [Market-farming] hardiness of cabbage, garlic?
- 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. --- organic87 AT frontiernet.net wrote: 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
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[Market-farming] Flower Pods and Local Food (Was: hardiness of cabbage, garlic?)
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[Market-farming] Flower Pods and Local Food (Was: hardiness of cabbage, garlic?),
Richard Stewart, 04/28/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Flower Pods and Local Food (Was: hardiness of cabbage, garlic?),
Road's End Farm, 04/28/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Flower Pods and Local Food, Richard Stewart, 04/28/2012
- [Market-farming] Food Safety and National Supplier Issues, Richard Stewart, 04/28/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Food Safety and National Supplier Issues, Road's End Farm, 04/28/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Food Safety and National Supplier Issues, Shoemaker, William H, 04/28/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Food Safety and National Supplier Issues, Brigette Leach, 04/29/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Food Safety and National Supplier Issues, Shoemaker, William H, 04/29/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Flower Pods and Local Food (Was: hardiness of cabbage, garlic?),
Road's End Farm, 04/28/2012
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[Market-farming] Flower Pods and Local Food (Was: hardiness of cabbage, garlic?),
Richard Stewart, 04/28/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] hardiness of cabbage, garlic?, Shoemaker, William H, 04/27/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] hardiness of cabbage, garlic?, Road's End Farm, 04/27/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] hardiness of cabbage, garlic?, Sue Wells, 04/27/2012
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