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Start planning your fall/winter edible garden now!
That windowbox is empty now, what to do? Why not plant yourself a fall kitchen garden for just outside your door? Placed near a warm building or window where heat escapes, and protected from frosts, you can enjoy fresh salads well into fall, even winter, depending on your climate.
Layer the bottom with styrofoam packing peanuts for good drainage, then a bunch of used coffee filters you have saved. Mix the following with a light weight potting mix that contains either vermiculite or perlite and some peat moss.
add:
coffeegrounds
eggshells
dried and green leaf matter (always look for insect and fungus activity and discard any bad leaves first)
These organic nutrients will break down over winter and this soil will actually get better and you will have black gold.
Plant some seeds...
Scatter some lettuce and mesclun green seeds. If you're new to this, mesclun is actually a French word meaning mixture and has become a trendy garden culinary term for salad greens. You can now buy all kinds of combinations according to your tastes (ie: spicy mustard greens, sweet lettuces, colorful bronze types, bright green little gems and tiny leaved or ruffled types) Catalogs offer great inspiration and info. Spinach or chards are other good cool weather greens as are mustard greens. Browse Cooks Gardens, Richter's Herbs, Johnnies, Burpie Pinetree, Shepherd's and most any reputable online nursery and order NOW!
This kind of garden can be quite delightfully pretty with all its color and texture!
You may also plant some herb cuttings or divisions in here just make sure that they are not varieties that require more sun or warmth than you may have available this time of year. Tarragon, chives, cillantro, some mints and sages are a few herbs that do better in cooler temps. Most basils do not but African blue is a good one that is perennial as well. If you have a plant, take periodic cuttings to always insure you have some.
If you are a more experienced gardener and have access to good light you can even overwinter peppers in a windowbox. I do this as best I can every year and down south often get a December crop of red cayennes or bird peppers (tepins) that are fun to tie dried on Christmas packages for edible "holly."
Thin out the plants as they grow and eat them at various stages! Depending on what zone you live in, you may enjoy salads for weeks. If you are down south like me, plant more seeds in stages every 2 weeks or so.
 Purchase a row cover to extend your season even longer. Cover the box when frosts are due. You can even make a tent and put a lightbulb underneath for added warmth, just be sure it doesn't touch anything. If you have no row covers you can use sheets, light blankets or plastic but be sure to uncover each day, if it gets any sun or warms up or your plants may fry.
When your fall kitchen garden is spent, turn over the soil, add more coffee or eggshells and leaves. You can then use it to force some late winter bulbs like amaryllis or paperwhites or spring hyacinths.
Or, just cover the box or slide it into a green plastic trash bag. Wait til spring where you can recycle the soil and plant those seeds you saved for your summer flower box again!
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