Video: Let’s Plant Cool Season Crops

cool season crops, Swiss chard
cool season crops, turnips
‘Silky Sweet’ turnips

There is something so invigorating about a new growing season, don’t you think? In this week’s video, I plant cool season crops to celebrate!

Those include leafy greens and root crops. You’ll recall that I focused primarily on carrots last week, which are certainly root crops. I’ve had so many questions about them that I felt they deserved their very own video.

Here’s what I planted during this week’s video:

  • Arugula
  • Corn salad (mache)
  • Kale
  • Beets
  • Swiss chard
  • Radishes
  • Turnips
  • Pak choi
cool season crops, kale
Winter sown ‘Red Russian’ kale

What’s particularly notable about the arugula, corn salad and kale? In addition to being cool season crops, I started them crops with the winter-sowing method. That’s where you sow the seeds in milk jugs (or other containers) in the dead of winter and leave them outside. That doesn’t sound like it would work, does it? But it really does.

However, I’ve had folks ask me how I transplant those seedlings so that’s what I show in the video.

But as you can see by the above list, there are all sorts of crops you can grow right now. Bill and I really love having a varied diet and using so many different types of vegetables in our cooking.

There are two other notable things about my cool season crops video:

  • I provide an update on the gutter peas. They’re biding their time out in our little greenhouse. I hope to transplant them into the garden in a week or so.
  • Remember the special raised bed covers we use on two of our beds? If you watched my videos last year, you know we encountered a problem with our agricultural insect netting. It had split along the hoops that were supporting the netting. Bill and I put our heads together to come up with a solution so that’s in this video, too.

Here is my “Let’s Plant Cool Season Crops” video:

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Next week, Bill and I will plant a ton of onion seedlings. See you then!