A short growing season doesn’t have to mean a small harvest. With the right strategies, you can extend your growing window, boost yields, and protect your plants from undesirable weather. Here’s how to make the most of your time in the garden:
Choose Fast-Maturing and Cold-Hardy Crops
Choosing the right plants starts at seed selection. Opt for seeds with shorter days to maturity – ideally 70 days or less. Direct-seeded crops like carrots, beans, beets, radishes, peas, and lettuce are great and reliable options. Cold-tolerant crops, such as kale, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, and chicories, can be planted in warm weather and will continue to grow and form nice, beautiful heads or leaves as temperatures drop.
Seed varieties on the West Coast Seeds website are marked to indicate whether they are Hybrid Seeds (F1 or F2) or Open Pollinated Seeds (OP). Open Pollinated Seeds (OP) When two plants of the same variety produce offspring, the variety...
Continue ReadingBack on Day 2 of our Twenty-one Days of Green, we talked about planting chives. We chose chives because they have to be among the very simplest of all herbs to grow from seed. They are extremely useful in the...
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