Gardening with Rabbits
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I didn't think that we could get broccoli thru our winters @Gardening with Rabbits . Maybe, if not having sub-zero is our new normal. Trying to leave bok choy results in about 90% winter kill and 10% which is badly damaged and bolts immediately.
We don't seem to have enough time between cooling down and frosts for me to grow lettuce in the fall! It didn't make any size the two times I tried it. Without Asian greens, my starvation month would come in November!
Okay, maybe it wouldn't .
Steve
I think you are right about the broccoli. I read it can take down to 10 degrees, but I read where people said when thaw came it just turned to mush. The only way I could get lettuce to grow in the fall was covered and even then it was very slow. Talking about all this cold weather, I think I better start cutting the large leaves of kale, collards and some of the Swiss chard and get things in the freezer. I went to the store today and they did not have any escarole