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Plant your winter vegetable garden now
rhinestone court
and
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Aug. 3 - Freak Mountain Ramblers
(hillbilly rock)
Aug. 10 - Nancy King & Mary Kadderly
(jazz)
Aug. 17 - Vagabond Opera
(cabaret gypsy jazz)
Aug. 21 - Dirty Martini
(American music)
alternative greeting cards
vintage eyewear
mens vintage clothing
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Children under 10 free
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or as much as I wish that could predict the
weather, I should stick to what I know—
plants.
In the past month I’ve said, “Oh, it’s not
going to rain anymore” and “It’s so hot out
side, all my plants are dying.” Here it is, cold and
rainy in the middle of summer.
It’s been 10 years this month since 1 moved to
Portland, and 1 still don’t know what’s going on up
in the sky. So now that I’ve outed myself as a trans
plant, don’t I at least get to ask if 10 years here
qualifies me as a real Oregonian?
When I first moved here and started to garden,
1 stuck to what I knew from back home on the
farm: vegetables. To me, vegetables seemed so sim
ple. Every fall, 1 covered the garden with manure
from the bam. When rhe snow melted, 1 tilled the
whole thing up anil planted seeds. Here it’s much
different, and people are so serious about vegetable
gardening. I never imagined that you could keep
your vegetable garden producing almost year-round,
but I soon found out you could.
I think that people really like the idea of winter
vegetable gardening, but there seems to be a little
confusion about how to go about it. The secret to
it is that all the planting for those delicious winter
harvests needs to start happening now. If you wait
until October or November, it’s just going to be way
too late for nearly all winter vegetables. 1 was talk
ing to my handsome and single (gentlemen) room
mate Rodney Bender, who works for Growing
Gardens, on the subject.
Bender suggests getting on it. August is the
time to plant your Brassicas. Brassica is the fancy
name for all the vegetables we know as broccoli,
cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, collards,
kale and kohlrabi. Transplanting these types of
vegetables out into your garden now gives them
enough time in the garden to grow and harden off
before the days get shorter and colder. You need to
take advantage of some of the warm days of sum
mer with winter vegetables because their growth
will quickly decrease come November. The new
transplants should get a helping of fertilizer at
planting time to really give them a good kick in
the pants.
Bender also tells me that you can sow seeds for
things like lettuce and other salad greens now, too,
but as he says: “It’s a bit dicey. I would stagger plant
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August is the time to plant Brassicas.
ing times so that if one batch fails, the next might
take off.”
It is always a gixxl idea to follow his advice here.
If you have ever tried to grow lettuce through the
summer, you know what I’m talking about. The hot
weather can make plants become bitter and go to
seed before you can even get back from the beach.
The entire month of August is the time to plant
seeds for some of my favorite vegetables to grow:
onions. Here again 1 fall back to how they look and
not so much how they taste, although I do love them.
All types of onion and shallot seed can be sown now
for a harvest in May or June of the following year. If
you’re as impatient as I am, you can still yank an
immature one to use in winter stews. Later in the fall
is the time to plant the onion’s most wonderful
cousin, garlic. Planting garlic cloves individually in
October gives you a lovely crop sometime in mid
summer. The harvest time is always a bit different.
I always gauge it by the way the green stalks look.
When they turn brown and look like they are dying,
it’s time to harvest.
1 know that I can only scratch at the surface of
growing a winter vegetable garden in one column,
but there are more than plenty of resources out
there if you want to really get into it. I have turned
to the Territorial seed company catalog many times
during my years here. The book Growing Vegetables
West of the Cascades by Steve Solomon is also a
great place to get much more involved in eating out
of your back yard all year round. ®
To reach D1RTY
D an , who will answer any and all of
your gardening questions, simply e-mail
dirtydthegardener@yahoo. com.