re: 2023 Fall Garden Thread

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Im going to try carrots, beets, mustard and collards, maybe some leaf lettuce.

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Have you ever grown beets before? If not, you will get the seed packet with gnarly looking seeds in it and you plant them. They are actually little clusters of seeds and when the seedlings break ground they will do so in small clusters.

They can be separated and spaced accordingly after they get a few inches tall.

Lettuce seeds are so damn tiny that you will wind up planting them way too close in the row. The good thing is, lettuce plants do survive quite well when transplanted to proper spacing. Again, let them get to 3-4 inches tall and go to work.

Get a small trowel and dig down next to the plants to loosen them for transplanting----never just pull them out the ground. Just be sure to keep the transplants well watered until they recover.