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in touch with nature
 

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Average last and first frost dates in our area are April 29 and October 13

Insects and the garden plants they favor
Early
spring
May
   
Insects
Diseases
Days
to 
germ.
Seed to harvest
Harvest
   * Beans, 
Pole
roots    6-14 70-90 days
   * Beans Fava      
 120 days
   * Beans, Lima   Mexican Bean Beetle  7-10 90-130 days
   * Beets      3-14 45-60 days
 *   Broccoli      3-10 70-120 days
 *   Brussel
Sprout
     3-10 90-120 days
 *  * Carrots History
roots
   10-14 65-90 days
 *  * Collards      5-10  
   * Corn - popping History    6-10 60-100 days
   * Cucumber History
roots
 Insects
 5-10 50-75 days
 *  * Endive History    10-14  
   * GarlicPdf roots      
 *  * Kale History    5-10  55-60 days
*  * Kohl Rabi  History
Roots
   7-21 50-70 days
Leeks
 *  * Lettuce History
Roots
   7-21 40-70 days
 *  * Mustard History    5-10 40-70 days
   * Okra History
Roots
   4-14 50-70 days
   * Onion - seeds
National
Assoc.
History
Roots
    90-120 days
 *  * Onion sets Pdf History    10-14  
   * Parsley History    14-21 65-90 days
   * Parsnip History    6-28 95-110 days
 *  * Peas History
roots
   5-8 60-75 days
   * Pepper Plants History
roots
   5-10 75-85 days
   * Potato,
red/white       2   Pdf
     
   * Pumpkin History
Root
   4-7 90-120 days
 *  * Radish History
Roots
   3-10 20-75 days
   * Rutabaga History    3-10 90-120 days
   * Soybeans History    6-14  
 *  * Spinach, History
Roots 
Trivia
   7-21 45-60 days
   * Squash,
Summer
History
Roots 
   7-14 55-70 days
   * Squash, 
Winter
History    7-14 90-125 days
 *  * Swiss
Chard
History
Roots
   7-14 45-60 days
    Sweet
Potato
History
Roots
    October
Tomatillo 7-14
   * Tomato main page 
seeds 
indoors
History
Roots
   7-14 70-100 days
   * Turnips History    3-7 45-90 days
Vegetables you can harvest after frost
These vegetables are ideal to plant in late summer and harvest after the first hard fall frost:
      · Cole:  Kale, Broccoli, Brussel sprouts
      · Greens:  Swiss Chard, Lettuce, Spinach
      · Root:  Beets, Turnips, Carrots, Radish
      · Legume:  Peas

 
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."  Robert Louis Stevenson
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