Late gardening?

[LeatherneckPA]

Hey, I didn't get any garden at all in this year. Time before retirement was too crowded with tying up loose ends so nobody could say I laid down the last three months.

So if I wanted to plant some stuff for fall and winter harvest what do y'all suggest, and when? Obviously things like tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and pumpkins are out of the question.

I've read about fall peas before, but there has to be more I can do with increasingly cool temps and shorter days. And please note that neither Cindy nor I like asparagus.

[GoodDaughter]

Do you like kale? It tastes immensely better after a frost has hit it, and I've seen people harvest it from under the snow. It is one of the most nutritious greens there is, which is why I grow it for myself and my poultry. There are several kinds, all equally easy to grow from seed. One of the authors in the BHM magazine gave an awesome recipe for kale soup once. I really recommend it to everyone because it's so easy to grow, tastes good, and has such high nutrition value. It makes really yellow egg yolks too, the hens really like it.

What about a really early maturing broccoli variety like PacMan? I think it's less than 50 days from transplanting.

Then of course are the lettuces, which I don't really grow because I'm not a huge lettuce eater. I grow a few flower pots of the butter crunch types that make a small plant.

Seems like radishes ought to do well in a short, cool season garden too, if you like them. I hate them, totally yucky.

[LeatherneckPA]

I LOVE kale. My grandmother always served kale, never spinach. Maybe I should try some Swiss Chard too?

[walls0stone]

chard may work in our neck of the woods. I planted some, but have not seen it spout yet...it's dry here.

[Terri]

I lost my early garden: the weather was poor and what survived has not produced much.

I have gone to the part that flooded out this spring, and I put in a 50' row of mixed vegetables. The row starts with leaf lettuce, beets, carrots, and Alaska peas.

These vegetables mature in 60 days, which brings us to the end of october.

October weather is sometimes warm and sometimes freezing: I will be relying on luck!