Despite last winter’s wicked cold, some perennials and fall-planted crops are ahead of schedule. The garlic, which typically sends up flower heads, or “scapes” the second week of July, has already had its annual pruning. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
Spring sown lettuces are at their peak, poised to bolt in this intense heat of early July. But they have been a treat, the easy-to-grow loose leafs. Black Seeded Simpson, Salad Bowl, Red Sails, Freckles and oakleaf mixes are all great spring choices. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
Keep in mind that row covers are not just for cool weather. Laid over seedlings, they can screen out insects of all sorts, and in the case of broccoli, cabbage, kale and other brassicas, they exclude the cabbage looper moth, and subsequent infestations. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
Despite last winter’s wicked cold, some perennials and fall-planted crops are ahead of schedule. The garlic, which typically sends up flower heads, or “scapes” the second week of July, has already had its annual pruning. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
Spring sown lettuces are at their peak, poised to bolt in this intense heat of early July. But they have been a treat, the easy-to-grow loose leafs. Black Seeded Simpson, Salad Bowl, Red Sails, Freckles and oakleaf mixes are all great spring choices. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
Keep in mind that row covers are not just for cool weather. Laid over seedlings, they can screen out insects of all sorts, and in the case of broccoli, cabbage, kale and other brassicas, they exclude the cabbage looper moth, and subsequent infestations. (ANN BENNETT PHOTO)
Independence Day is a benchmark in the gardening year, while also launching the summer visitor season in Mount Washington Valley. And in this part of the world, where the growing season is such a brief window of opportunity, it is a time-honored tradition to survey the field crops to assess whether the corn is knee-high by the Fourth of July.
Not this year, or not in many locations, where farmers and local gardens are still making up for time lost during the snowy spring of 2019, with its interminable gray days, occasional torrential rains and brutal winds. Not until May did the soil begin to dry, much less warm to a temperature suitable for germination.
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