Diane McGill wrote:
simy1 wrote:
the soil is warm, you can plant anything with the few exceptions I
mentioned early. I buy my cool weather seeds at Territorial Seeds, if
you order via the web today you will have them in two days in the mail.
Keep the unused seeds in the freezer in a ziploc bag and they will last
forever.

For the garlic shoots, I am not familiar with the warmer weather
varieties, but yes, I plant cloves, or better, bulbils from last year's
crop, in october. In my case, they come up when the weather warms again
in early march. In your case they may come up sooner. Any warm weather
garlic grower here?

anyway, with the lettuce, mesclun and the radishes you will have
something in 5 weeks. The chard will kick in in 10 weeks or so and the
peas and broccoli in 12-14. Temperatures in the 80s is just perfect for
planting seeds. They will take off, then mature during the cooler fall
days.

Thanks to both of you for your replies. Planting for winter is
something new to me. Hope I have success.

Diane

this is from yesterday's SF Chronicle, about october gardenning tasks
in the Bay Area

-- For the winter vegetable garden, plant bok choy, broccoli, Brussels
sprout, cabbage, cauliflower, chard, Chinese cabbage, garlic, leek,
lettuce and spinach from nursery seedlings, and beets, carrots, onions,
peas and radishes from seeds.