The Best Asian Greens for Colorado
Fast, cool-tolerant types are the best Asian greens for Colorado: baby bok choy, tatsoi, mizuna, komatsuna and the mustards.
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Fast, cool-tolerant types are the best Asian greens for Colorado: baby bok choy, tatsoi, mizuna, komatsuna and the mustards.
In coastal and southern California, where winter freezes don’t happen, sow Asian greens in the cool half of the year, from fall through winter and into…
In north Florida, sweet corn is ready 60 to 90 days after planting, and it can only be planted once the soil holds above 60 F, a point that arrives well…
Stop cutting when most of the spears coming up are thinner than a pencil. That signal, not a calendar date, ends the season in Nova Scotia.
Across frost-free coastal and southern California, the best Asian greens are the cool-season types: bok choy, tatsoi, mizuna, komatsuna and choy sum.
Delaware soil reaches 60 F well after the last frost, so the frost date is the wrong starting gun for sweet corn.
Stop cutting when most of the spears coming up are thinner than a pencil. That is an object to look for, not a date to circle.
On the south coast, sow hardy Asian greens such as bok choy and tatsoi outdoors from mid-March under cover, then again from late summer into early fall.
Sweet corn goes in when the soil says so, not the calendar: about 60 F, a point Connecticut reaches well after its last spring frost.
Sweet corn in Colorado is ready about 60 to 90 days after planting, and planting waits on the soil, not the calendar.