Planting for a 4-Season Harvest, Part 6
Starts
Tomatoes Outdoors
Tomato seed can be sown now
directly in the ground, novelty varieties
such as Cherry or Yellow Pear, which don't take so long to
mature. Or more "early" tomatoes which grow more quickly than the
main crop and will be ready to take over when the first lot of tomatoes
is petering out in late summer.
For most tender crops,
though,
wait until the environment is thoroughly
warm for the second big planting period of the gardener's year.
The following go in: lots of bush beans, cucumber, summer squash.
I plant 3 kinds of this favorite vegetable: White Bush Scallop; some
form of the dark-green Italian zucchinni; a Yellow Summer. Last
year I grew two: Early Prolific Straightneck and Seneca Butterbar
Hybrid; the first pale yellow, the second, buttery, and both
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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