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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 13:50:47 -0400

I think, but am not sure, that garlic is the hardiest of that batch. Garlic is usually the only one of those I have out in the field in March; though this year I did plant some beets, chard, and radish in March. (March and April seem to have switched places this year in this location. I hope May will go back to "normal", though I'm not sure there is such a thing any longer.)

My onion transplants usually go out in April. They will certainly take some frost, as will beets and radishes; but I'm not sure how much exactly. Swiss chard is the least likely to come up well if I seed it early, so I think it's less hardy, though I doubt a little frost will hurt it. Asian greens I have less experience with, but doesn't that term cover a very wide territory? I would expect that some would be hardier than others.


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




On Apr 27, 2012, at 1:39 PM, <clearviewfarm wrote:

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 wrote:

From: Road's End Farm >
To: Market Farming 
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






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