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We finished putting our garden together this weekend. It is a little late for us here in Northeast Florida, but the weather didn't warm up when it usually does. We had threats of freezes in the beginning of April this year. Almost unheard of. The usual planting time here is in late febuary and early march. Watch it get supper hot now and burn everything up. Sure hope not.

Congrats on getting done. Does that mean that you don't do progressive planting of things like cilantro, radishes, carrots, and green onions?

Successive plantings I mean. I get worse every year. Now I need a grammar checker along with the spell checker.

I'm not sure what you mean here. Could you explain your sentence please. I'm really new to all of this and I may not be doing what I should be doing here.

Well some plants like radishes, green onions, cilantro, and carrots are usually planted through out the growing season. So you plant some this week and then some two weeks from now and then two weeks later than that. In that way you have fresh veggies throughout the growing season rather than just one harvest. I love salad so I am trying to do this. Sometimes I have better luck than others lol.

How long is your growing season Sherome?

OK, now I understand. Yes, we can do that. However, some plants do not like the brutal sun that we get from mid July through the end of August. I won't be able to do most greens. Radishes, probably. My hubby tells me that corn will grow right up until we get a freeze, which is usally late December although it has been known to hit earlier. So we planted only a few corn and will do another batch in 2 weeks and so on. Love corn. We left a few extra rows and only planted half rows for those that we plan to do again in a couple of weeks. Green beans should grow for several plantings. Hope so. Where do you live?

If we are not getting really wierd weather, like this year, it should start in late Feb and end when the first freeze hits. I forgot to mention that we hope to build a green house in our back yard this summer. That will hopefully give us some veggies year round. We will probably put a heater in it to keep things from freezing. We don't get long freezes, just a few hours in the mornings, for a day to 3 days at a time, and then it will warm up a little. That's North Florida for you.

Hey Sherome, you're doing a great job. The more you try the more experience you'll have. This is a wonderful place to come to to gain information that others have gleaned through their ups and downs of gardening.

I understand about the leafy greens. I'm in Virginia zone 7 and I can't grow lettuce or spinach outside from july through most of september the way the weather has been since I started gardening a few years ago.

Maybe your green house should have an a/c unit as well as a heater. That way you could have your lettuce and spinach all year too.