Garden News - Cool season plantings, Sat & Mon work days, and more

[Golden Community Garden]

Hi everyone, here's a bit of garden news.

 

Work days - Saturday and Monday at 8:30 am

Christine Smith will host work days on Saturday and Monday (8:30 am) to do a bit of weeding, path work, clean up, and possible irrigation work in the butterfly garden. This will be a good chance to get out and reconnect in the garden and get a bit of work done. Please bring work gloves, water, snacks, and anything else that will help make it enjoyable.

Cool Season Planting 

Cool season crops include broccoli, kale, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, lettuce, onion, radishes, peas, and cauliflower. Planting crops in the fall is essentially the same as planting them in the spring. You don't need to do anything different in the beginning but by planting cool weather crops you will extend your garden harvest by a couple of months. Some cool weather plants like kale can be harvested even in the snow because they can handle freezes and thrive in the cooler weather of fall and early winter.

 

September 1 - Plant seeds outdoors: beets, lettuces, chard, spinach, radishes, mesclun, mizuna, mustards, turnip tops, for fall crop. Weather control: These crops may not germinate in excessive heat. Chose a shady location or wait until temperatures fall. Keep row covers close by for hail. Heavier covers for snow or frost.

 

Front Range Living's Autumn Salad Garden

After the summer heat abates and a cooling rain sets in, it’s time to consider an autumn garden. Although a summer garden is what we all prize, an autumn garden is one of the sweetest times of the year to grow that last harvest. Chard, radishes, spinach, parsley, lettuces—the crops that define a green spring may be easier to grow in autumn. Seeds germinate quickly in cooling temperatures and the weather is generally more settled. And if you’re exhausted from pulling up tomato vines and prickly squash plants, take heart. An autumn garden is quick and easy. Read more >>

Garden classes

We may be able to have an expert from Denver Urban Gardens come out to teach a gardening class. If you're interested, please let us know which one you're most interested in here: http://www.doodle.com/aypmkxzvynp7ecw4

Additional Resources

CSU Vegetable Planting Guide: http://www.ext.colostate.edu/mg/gardennotes/720.html#semihardy

Climate info: http://www.cmg.colostate.edu/gardennotes/741.pdf

Log hours here: www.GoldenCommunityGarden.org/jhours.html 

have a great weekend!

 

Matt, Suzanne, Susan, Katie, Stew, Bruce, Kara, and Kemp