For regular turnips it may be a little late, but Hakurei turnips would work very well. All those crops you listed are frost-tolerant, so you have way more than 60 days. The spinach and kale are particularly tolerant and will be fine right until the first permanent snowfall. OTOH, you have to add a 25-50% extension to the DTM to account for fall's shorter and ever-shortening days. I would also suggest radishes, tatsoi, bok choy, gai lan and claytonia. IME, freeze damage thresholds are about like this (this is without row covers): Least tolerant: lettuce and bok choy - mid to high 20s F Tolerant: beets, turnips, radishes - mid 20s F. Mound up soil around the growing root to prevent the root from freezing. Very tolerant: kale, spinach, tatsoi, claytonia - mid teens F This post was edited by Slimy_Okra on Fri, Aug 15, 14 at 21:48

Karen, the chinese forget me nots keep blooming for me from late spring right up until the can't take any more nights with some frost in the late fall. The regular perennial forget me nots bloom just once, maybe twice sometimes and then they are gone. I keep my chinese forget me nots in part sun in 3 different beds, but the clump I tried in the back yard, in full sun, bit the dust in early July. Northener, I grow the 4 o'clocks in pots so that I can move them around in my beds to add color when needed and to help deter japanese beetles from destroying my roses and malva. 4 oclock leaves are deadly poison to the japanese beetle. they eat them and die. I end up with quite a few dead ones on the top of the mulch in the pots. They are hardy plants when the JP attack them chew up the leaves. They just shoot out more and more leaves and keep on growing and blooming. In the mean time, the roses and malva are left alone, instead of totally destroyed. Send me an email and I'll tell you how I save the tubers from year to year. I don't do anything complicated and it's really easy to do. So far they have survived for the past 2 years with the method I use. But just to be safe, I do sow 4 o'clock seeds every year just incase I lose the tubers. Fran

OMG Beautiful! Love how you have created different elevations. And I just adore walled gardens...have 'walled garden' envy as I find it so challenging to work with more open spaces. In the Winter Snow close-up photo...what's the hosta at 11 o'clock in the far back, in front of the greenhouse? The large dark green one with yellow streaks? Love it and don't recall ever seeing that one.

WLK looks good. I like Yada Yada Yada. Love4 the Clowns in Washington name. By the way, your box is on the way finally. Laura's rain bands delayed it and I am glad I got it off yesterday since we are in the midst of several days of rain now. kay