...is anyone else growing late fall/overwintering gardens? I imagine in the really hot southern gardens where summer heat shuts everything down, this is the time of the year when you are really getting into growing some of those wonderful winter crop.
FYI - Based on his temperature notations and location, at upload time of the video, Fukuberry’s gardens were in Zone 8b.
— He always preps the raised row beds by adding lots of organic matter/compost, home made bokashi fermented fertilizer made with rice bran, fermented green weed juice, brown/raw sugar, fish meal, fish bone/crustacean meal, and seedcake/meal. This is fortified with screened ash/char at time of application.
- He uses black plastic mulch with spaced holes for planting, low hoop tunnels and mesh covers to initially protect from insects, then covers over the insect mesh with vented plastic.
- the broad/fave beans are only protected from frost with the lean-to of cut grassy bamboo stems
- already well-grown Chinese cabbage are wrapped with their own outer leaves and tied to protect the inner leaves until they are ready to be harvested
To help with all the Japanese subtitles in this context, he is noting the dates when the seeds were succession sown — in Japanese, dates are written as { X month Y day }
— so today would be { 9 月 29 日 } ...9th month 29th day.
菜園だより111219越冬野菜・シート張り
Vegetable Garden Diaries 2011-12-19
Overwintering vegetables • [weedblock] sheet [for the blueberry orchard walkway]
Steve
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(ignore the weeds)