Growing Cool Season Vegetables
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Now that daylight savings time has begun, we have more daylight at the end of the day and many folks are eager to get into their gardens. I have been thinking about planting peas and maybe some Chinese cabbage in my own garden. If you are like me, you may have water standing on top of the soil or the soil is saturated from all the rain we have had. You should stay out of the garden until the soil has dried. Working the soil when it is wet can cause compaction and destroy the soil structure.
If your garden is too wet, while you are waiting for it to dry, spend time planning your garden if you haven’t already. Decide where you will plant each crop and sketch it out so you have it for future reference. A detail of where you plant this year will help in future years for planning crop rotations within your garden.
If you have not tested your soil in the past couple of years, you should test it so that you know what your baseline is for nutrient and pH levels. You can pick up a soil test kit at the N.C. Cooperative Extension of Union County office or at any Union County Library. Testing does cost $4 per sample from Thanksgiving until March 31. April 1 – Thanksgiving the testing is free. You mail your sample to the Soil Testing lab in Raleigh, so you will have the expense of postage.
Cool season vegetables can be planted when the soil temperature warms to 35-40°. You can purchase a good soil thermometer at most garden centers or online for $10 – $20. Commonly planted cool- season crops include cabbage, broccoli, onions, peas, radishes, lettuce, spinach, kale, and turnips. Cabbage, broccoli, and greens may be purchased as transplants and onions can be purchased as onion sets. Any can be planted from seed, it just requires planning on your part to have transplants ready at the right time to go into the garden. These hardy plants will tolerate light frosts, prefer air temperatures in the 50-60°degree range and begin to lose their quality when the weather starts heating up.