On 8/31/2009 6:36 AM, Dave_s wrote:
I am curious what vegetables others in LA Couunty will be planting for
Fall and Winter season? My zipcode is 91402, Panorama City, Calif.
Never snows here and weather is pretty mild except for frosts

Thanks, Dave_s

For your area (and mine), winter is the time to plant salad greens, cole
vegetables (cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, etc), and snow peas (Chinese
pea pods). Actually, get seeds into the ground in October or seedlings
by mid-November. You want them started and growing before the first
frost.

As soon as they are available as bare-root plants (likely in January),
plant asparagus and artichoke. You won't get anything from these
perennials in their first year or two, but then you will harvest them
for years to come. In the meantime, they make nice ornamentals if
planted in the right place. In my garden, asparagus is a spring and
summer background behind my peach tree and low-growing perennials and
bulbs. My artichoke is an accent plant in my back lawn from now until
the summer heat knocks it down in July or early August. I harvest
asparagus spears and artichoke buds in the spring.

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David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary