Vegetables

Planting Tips

Direct Seeding

• Peas, carrots, beets, lettuce, radishes, spinach

Transplant

• Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant

Fall Plant

• Onions, lettuce, parsnips, garlic

Plant peas and beans by adding an inoculant bacteria Rhizobia to the seeds.

Planting Times

• 5 weeks before last spring frost (hardy vegetables)
  • asparagus, beet, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower, garlic, kale, leek, lettuce, onion, parsnip, pea, potato, radish, rutabaga, Swiss chard, turnip
• On or before last spring front (tender vegetables) beans, corn, zucchini
• 1-2 weeks after frost (heat loving veggies): Cucumbers, eggplant, pepper, pumpkin, squash, tomatoes.

Storing Harvested Items

• Potatoes - do not wash before storing.
• Carrots - remove all dirt, keep in cold fridge

Good Carrot Choices

• Chatenay - medium sized stocky with large cores. High yield.
• Danvers - late season producing very uniform with good colour
• Imperators - long, cylindrical, somewhat woody
• Nantes - sweetest and juiciest of all but shorter and brittle.

Good Tomato Choices

Lettuce

Can becomes bitter when lacking water, experiences abnormal hot or cold weather or when given insufficient fertilizer. Plant thickly and then thin.

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