The Garden In January

Tue, Jan 3rd 2012, 10:00 PM

If you cannot go out to your vegetable garden and pick exactly what  you want right now then you did not make an early enough start. A friend of mine told me he was off the island for all of October so did not put down any seeds until his return in early November.

Had he planted seeds in September I am sure they would have done very well because October was a magnificent month for starting a vegetable garden. There was regular rainfall and otherwise clement weather. Cool nights encouraged early tomato set and he could have had  tomatoes ripe by the end of November.

If your garden is doing well, as I suspect, do not forget to plant more seeds to replace your crops as they reach  ...

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