Cooler Temperatures = Cooler Crops!

The Belair-Edison Front Porch Farmers received their first installment of fall crops today. Each farmer received spinach or sugar-snap peas transplants and sugar-snap pea and spinach seeds. The farmers also received instructions for transitioning their farms from warm weather crops to cool weather crops.

All of the farmers also received a pre-measured dry mix of Miracle-gro for mixing one-gallon of liquid feed. Instructions were also left for going Urganic or staying Organic. Our farmers will be receiving a second container that will include cool weather leafy vegetables, onion and garlic sets as well as pansies for winter color, beauty and as a early spring pollinator attractor.

We continue to transition the garden at GSB from warm weather to cool weather crops. Okra, eggplant, tomatoes and peppers (sweet and hot) are still coming in. We will be starting spinach, chard, lettuces, onions, garlic, and pansies in the coming days and weeks. I'm sure we will find some interesting cool weather crop to experiment with!

Also, the Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Annual Heritage Harvest Festival is this week-end in Virginia at a certain ex-President's home known as Monticello. It is cool and worth a road trip if you have never been. Look it up!