Uh-oh, Rob & DFB, here I got again getting off topic. This thread started in the right place, but now I guess it ought to be in the lawn & garden forum./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Oh well, what the heck . . ..
Planting time is determined in different ways by different folks. Lots of farmers with field crops around here go by soil temperature and moisture content. For vegetable gardens, it's just when the weather's suitable and/or they have the time to plant a garden, and a lot of them at least put out their onion sets shortly after the first of the year. And then there's a few who believe in going by the signs of the moon. Well, I don't really know whether it makes any difference or not, but I figure if I've got to plant it, it can't hurt to do that, so I make up a calendar according to The Old Farmer's Almanac every year for a planting schedule, and it's going to be a little later this coming year (did they know we were going to have an unusually cold winter?). So I'll be planting my beets, oninons, radishes, turnips, and potatoes between Feb. 10 to 22. This past year, I planted the radishes, turnips, and oinions on Jan. 21 and finished the last of the planting of all the garden on Mar. 13. And if you water enough, the garden can continue on through most of October, but this past summer was so hot and dry, we had a grasshopper plague, and my wife said "enough" after she canned 18 cases of stuff and filled the freezers, so I just quit and mowed the garden down and tilled it in on July 17 even though it was still producing.
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