thanks for that! you know, we planted some beets around late October hoping we could get a crop in before cooling, but they literally didn't even get so much as a knot up in the ground.

i'm working on framing out a new raised bed with timbers this weekend (5'x12'), and all my seeds came in from SSE today, so ... hopefully the spring crop will take!

I just put in carrots two weeks ago (we're in Winder). VERY few are sprouting and none has set up true leaves yet. I'm waiting to see how they'll do. I've transplanted my lettuce, spinach, broccoli cauliflower and planted radishes as well. They seem to be doing okay now that this week's weather has just been amazing!!!

I've worked with the UGA chart for a few years, but I always have to keep in mind that their dates are for Macon and we're quite a bit north from there. I get all excited late Jan and early Feb and get shot down when I realize I need to wait a few more weeks.

On this chart, what's the difference between garden peas and Southern peas? I planted cow peas last year, but it was in June. I'm not sure what this chart would consider them to be.

Thanks!

bevinga, Southern Peas are a type of beans that you can eat dried like cowpeas or dixie butter beans. You are absolutely right on to plant them in warm weather! Garden peas and sugar snaps are the types that are like a regular pea like Green Giant packages - either shellable or in an edible pod.

Sattelite, you got the club root going. This has happened to me when I planted things to late or too early or have too much fertilizer in the soil for root crops. I would try planting beets earlier. Try the carrots a bit earlier. Get the tops going good and hopefully roots will form. If you start them as late as you did, row covers or plastic tenting helps to keep soils warm enough. You could plant now if tented to warm soils. Radishes do the very same thing if the soil is too cold (planted too early) or too much nitrogen in the soil. Some radishes do it anyway if planted at the wrong time of the year!

Hope this helps,
GGG