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| What Happens When the Weather is Too Wet July 17, 2008 13:26:43 Below is a photo of an area of my garden where collard greens had come up volunteer in the spring. I depicted this area in an earlier post about volunteers in the garden. The area now is a mess of weeds, collard seed heads, and more weeds. I have not been able to do anything with this area all year because it takes so long to dry out it has been too wet to work all year. 
The ground in this area may finally be dry enough to work so I may get to it this evening about sunset. It is about 90 degrees out so I quit about 11 AM this morning because of the heat. It will not be easy going through this stuff with the tiller but there is considerable green manure to be worked in here. Aside from having eaten some very good collard greens this spring, we have another benfit to be had from this area. There are several plants that have gone to seed. So, I am gathering them up and will get the seeds out and plant them later this year. 
The seed pods are dried out and I was dropping seeds all across the garden when I carried them out. I am going to put them in a large tub and just rub the seed heads to break them open and then gather up the small black seeds to save for planting. 
I do not think I will plant anything in this area this year aside from maybe some buckwheat to be tilled in once it has grown up large enough. I will probably plant the saved seeds about the end of August. Collards are not a warm weather crop. And besides, they are attacked by the white cabbage looper moth resulting in little green worms on the plants. Cold weather is the best for this crop. Some of the plants in this area actually wintered over so maybe I will get some to winter over this year. Comment on this article | |