Mornin',
Need some info on exactly what may be put in the veggie garden right now.Being borderline Zone 6-7,I understand peas,brocolli, colli,may be added now.Is this correct?What else please? Thank you all so much for all the help and advice you've given me so far.I'm honored to have friends like you all.
@tlantis.

Cool soil, direct sowing is now:
Lettuce
Spinach
Radishes
Leafy herbs
Carrots
Onion sets
Peas
Beans

Warmer soil needed for slow germinators:
cauliflower
broccoli (eeeeewww)
Tomatoes
Peppers
sprouts

so these are best germinated indoors/transplanted or hold off for 3 weeks or so.

Keep a handful of loose mulchy stuff ready for any late cold nights!

Climates no longer are predictable. Peas can handle 32F but emerging beans will suffer.



John / Ecologicalsgardens

Try this, Go get you one of those temoerature probes like you stick in big chunks of meat while cooking, like turkey or big roast. They usually go from 32 to at least 200 degrees farenheit.
Stick it in the ground in your garden. if it is below 65 degrees but above 32, plant the green type stuff, broccali, collards, spinach, turnip, sweet peas, radishes, beats, onions. When the average temp. reaches 65, plant anything you want. Corn, squash, tomatoes, okra, blackeye peas, (if you like southern cookin), most folks up North dont eat blackeye, purple hull and creme type peas but thats their problem. Any way. experiment be your own judge, plant one seed in a particular spot, if it sprouts then plant the rest.
Good luck
Bobby

Hey Bobby, how you feel about Okra? Is it worth growing? Thx!

John / Ecologicals

Bobby I just read yesterday that peas like to be started when the ground is still cold. How cold, I dunno.

When I was growing up we always grew okra. I only like it cut up, rolled in flour or corn meal and then fried. Don't overcook-or you get slime city! Of course my granpa was born in OK and raised in TX. Some of us northerners like blackeyed peas too!