We are coming out of our first Fall/Winter season of gardening. The Fall/Winter season overall was a success. We grew several herbs (Oregano, Parsley, Rosemary, and Dill). We grew carrots, onion, chard, beets, radish, collard greens, mustard greens, kale, lettuce, peas, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, and brussels sprouts.
Today we had to pull up our cabbage. The weather here in Rosenburg has been really crazy and unusual for summer. It has been a quite mild winter. The weather has been very rainy, warm and humid. Cabbage does not like to sit in consistently wet soil. Our soil has been consistently wet with this unusual amount of rain we have been receiving. The bottoms of the cabbage started to look very diseased, pest infested and root rotted.
This is one of the two cabbage beds that were pulled up today.
To prevent the spread and re-occurance of disease we use crop rotation. We are now preparing this bed for the spring/summer season. We will add a layer of compost to the top of the bed and be prepared to plant something from the squash family (squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, or melons) mid-March.
Overall, we were able to salvage some of the cabbage.
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