Southern Exposure Newsletter

Allium Bulbs for Fall Planting: Garlic & Perennial Onions (Shallots & other Multipliers)

Unsure how to fill the winter garden? Take advantage of the reversed seasons for allium bulbs. Fall-planted, spring-harvested perennial onions and garlic are easy to grow, disease-resistant, and an ideal choice for the winter garden: they grow well even where winter lows drop far below 0°F.

Pre-order your Perennial Onion & Garlic bulbs for fall shipment soon, or you'll be plum outta luck. Check out our new post on how to harvest and cure your bulbs.

Summer Sowings

Keep sowing seeds all through summer for continuous harvests through fall & into winter. Here's our quick guide:

1. Warm-season, slow growing summer successions: the bonus crops that many gardeners forget. A second round of tomatoes, summer squash, sweet corn, or cucumbers can keep you harvesting without interruption.

2. Fast growing summer successions: these crops require frequent, regular sowing all through summer. We sow beans, carrots, salad greens, beets, and radish seeds weekly.

3. Cool season, slow growing crops for fall harvest. We sow Brussels sprouts first in June, a first round of broccoli and cabbage in July, then by mid-July we start sowing fall greens: collards, Swiss chard, leaf beet, and kale, plus winter radishes. We sow Chinese cabbage in late July.

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We hope you'll join us for the 9th Annual Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello, in Charlottesville, VA: our celebration of the harvest at Thomas Jefferson’s historic mountaintop home.

General Admission is Saturday, September 12th, with pre-festival events on Thursday and Friday. Learn more about the festival online:

www.HeritageHarvestFestival.com

Calling all Seed Savers to the Seed Swap:

For free admission, bring five varieties and volunteer 2 hours during the seed swap to help newbie seed savers and share your knowledge. To sign up, email ira@southernexposure.com with "HHF Seed Swap" in the header.