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From: bobhic@aluxe.UUCP (ADOLT)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: to new gardener - juilo
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 10:57:10 EDT
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To new gardener - juilo

Your original article got deleted before I could respond,
but I would like to encourage your initial efforts at
gardening.  Giving specific advice as to what will work for
you is impossible since I live in a different part of the
country.  My general advice to you is to:
1. ask questions.  (esp. of older people in your immediate
area)
2. walk around your neighborhood and see what others are
doing.  Most gardeners will be more than happy to give you a
guided tour of their gardens.
3. read the books, magazines, catalogs, and seed packets
very carefully (with a grain of salt).  Planting dates and
time to maturity VARY.
4. use your common sense and EXPERIMENT.

In answer to one of your specific questions about planting
seeds at this late date:
I would recommend that you try a 'fall' garden.  Some
veggies prefer fall to spring or summer: peas, carrots,
beans, lettuce, radishes, spinach, endive, mustard, turnips
(all from seeds) and broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower
(from sets).  Find out the earliest date that your area has
a killing frost.  Read the seed packs and determine if you
have enough growing time.  If you do - go for it.

Additional time can be realized by soaking the seeds in
water (usually overnight) prior to planting and by covering
your plants when a frost is scheduled.

BTW - I enjoy my fall garden much more than my spring or
summer gardens.  And, last year I was still harvesting into
the second week of November.
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Bob Adolt
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