Given our climate change, the anxiety of spring centers on getting cool weather crops in early enough to avoid bolting, but late enough to not be completely killed off by heavy frosts. I would have sowed seeds last week, but with my recent surgery I was out of commission for a couple weeks.
This weekend, however, I topped off the beds with fresh compost and direct-sowed the frost tolerant veggies of 2023! Into the beds went merlot lettuce, four seasons lettuce, watermelon radish, wasabi radish, Swiss chard, perpetual spinach, new kuroda carrots, as well as a mesclun lettuce mix and a carrot mix.
My approach this year is a new one for me — seeding all the beds in early April and clear spaces for the next round by eating these vegetables. One of the benefits, I think, is that many of these might survive much later as they can stay cool in the shadow of other crops.
Yeaa for greens
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