Comments on: The Beginning of the End http://www.storiography.com/journal/the-beginning-of-the-end/ The Journal Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:53:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Christiana http://www.storiography.com/journal/the-beginning-of-the-end/comment-page-1/#comment-323 Christiana Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:05:32 +0000 http://www.xiana.com/journal/?p=2312#comment-323 The grand plan is to sow spinach to leach the lead out of the soil and get the lead down to a more acceptable level for planting root veggies and leafy greens. The lab that tested our soil didn't recommend planting either as we're just a bit over tolerance. Which is both heartening and head-scratching (as in"How much lead exactly is acceptable?") That said, I may have missed the fall sowing time tho and will have to sow in the spring in the beds. So, for this year, all the fall/winter veggies are in containers and doing quite well. All the rain we've had recently has made them shoot up quite a bit in the past few days - the radicchio and curly frisee just a few weeks from harvest - they're coming along beautifully. The grand plan is to sow spinach to leach the lead out of the soil and get the lead down to a more acceptable level for planting root veggies and leafy greens. The lab that tested our soil didn’t recommend planting either as we’re just a bit over tolerance. Which is both heartening and head-scratching (as in”How much lead exactly is acceptable?”)

That said, I may have missed the fall sowing time tho and will have to sow in the spring in the beds. So, for this year, all the fall/winter veggies are in containers and doing quite well. All the rain we’ve had recently has made them shoot up quite a bit in the past few days – the radicchio and curly frisee just a few weeks from harvest – they’re coming along beautifully.

]]> By: tom http://www.storiography.com/journal/the-beginning-of-the-end/comment-page-1/#comment-277 tom Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:29:27 +0000 http://www.xiana.com/journal/?p=2312#comment-277 You're not going to put any winter veggies in? Or are you giving the ground a rest? You’re not going to put any winter veggies in? Or are you giving the ground a rest?

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