Transcript Raising Vegetables For Market

Raising Vegetables For Market
Part Two
•1. Review of Last Workshop’s Main Points
•2. Where to Plant Your Different crops
•3. Information about Different Vegetables
•4. Planting in Succession
•5. Staking Tomatoes
Healthy Soil for Healthy Plants
Feed the Soil and Plants
What is Fertilizer?
Manure
Alfalfa
Compost
Planting Crops: Direct-Seeding
And Transplanting
Weeding the Garden
Information about the Crops
1. When to plant
cool season / warm season
2. How to start crops
seed / transplant
3. How to plant
4. How many days until harvest starts
5. How many days of harvest
Cool Season
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Potatoes
Cabbage
Peas
Collards
Lettuce
Onions
Warm & Hot Seasons
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Beans
Okra
Zucchini
Eggplant
Peppers, Hot &
Sweet
Tomatoes
How to Start Vegetable Crops
From Transplants
Cabbage
Onions
Collards
Eggplant
Peppers
Tomato
How to Start Vegetable Crops
From Seed
Peas
Beans
From “Seed”
Potatoes
How to Start Vegetable Crops
From Seed OR Transplants
Zucchini
Okra
Lettuce
How to Space the Seed
1 foot
• Beans/
Peas
• Okra
• Lettuce
Leave room for paths.
BED 1
BED 2
BED 3
Plant crops in the right place.
• Almost all vegetables need full sun- that
means sun all day.
• Plant shorter crops where they will get the
most sun.
• Don’t let tall crops shade shorter crops.
Will Any Vegetable Crops Take
a Little Shade?
• Yes!
• Lettuce and spinach.
Some more…..
• Bush green beans, beets, and
broccoli
Some herbs that take a little
shade….
• Lemon balm- used for lemon flavoring.
• Shiso- a medicinal herb also used for
cooking.
Lemon balm
Shiso
Days Until Harvest Starts
Beans
Okra
Peppers
50 days
55 days
70 days
Cabbage
Tomatoes
65 days
80 days
Zucchini
50 days
Lettuce
55 days
Peas
65 days
90-100
days
Collards
55 days
Potatoes
Eggplant
65 days
Onions
100 days
Days of Harvest
• Short Harvest
Cabbage: 3 weeks
Lettuce: 2-3 weeks
Potatoes: harvest in
July and store in
refrigerator
Beans: 2 weeks
Zucchini: 4 weeks
or longer
Peas: 3 weeks
Onions: 3 weeks
Days of Harvest
• Long Harvest
Collards: spring & fall
Tomatoes: 3 months or
longer
Eggplant: 3 months or
longer
Okra: 3 months or
longer
Peppers (sweet &
hot) 3 months or
longer
Succession Planting-how to have
something to pick and sell all season.
BED 1
BED 2
BED 3
Succession Planting:
April 1
BED 1
BED 2
BED 3
Plant Lettuce
Succession Planting:
May 1
BED 1
Lettuce is still
growing
BED 2
Transplant
Tomatoes
Seed Okra
BED 3
Succession Planting:
May 15
BED 1
Start
harvesting
lettuce
BED 2
Tomatoes are
still growing
BED 3
Okra is still
growing
Succession Planting:
June 1
BED 1
Finish
harvesting
lettuce
BED 2
Tomatoes are
still growing
BED 3
Okra is still
growing
Succession Planting:
June 7
Plant Beans
BED 1
Tomatoes:
BED 2
Still growing
Okra:
BED 3
Still growing
Succession Planting:
July 1
Beans:
BED 1
Still growing
Tomatoes:
BED 2
Still growing
Okra:
BED 3
Harvest
begins
Succession Planting:
July 20
Beans:
BED 1
Still growing
Tomatoes:
BED 2
Harvest
begins
Okra:
BED 3
Harvest
continues
Succession Planting:
August 1
Beans:
BED 1
Harvest begins
Tomatoes:
BED 2
Harvest
continues
Okra:
BED 3
Harvest
continues
Succession Planting:
August 20
Beans:
BED 1
Harvest ends
Tomatoes:
BED 2
Harvest
continues
Okra:
BED 3
Harvest
continues
Succession Planting:
October 7
BED 1
Tomatoes:
BED 2
Killed by frost
Okra:
BED 3
Killed by frost
Staking Tomatoes
Staking Tomatoes
• More fruit
• Better quality
• Healthier plants
Staking Tomatoes
Single
wooden
stake
Tomato
cage
Stake & Weave
Mulch tomatoes
• Mulch tomato plants to keep dirt from
splashing up on to the fruit and leaves.
This prevents diseases.
• Mulch tomatoes to keep moisture in the
soil during the hot summer.
• Mulch to keep the soil cooler during the
summer heat.
Put mulch down after weather is hot.
Use rotted leaves, straw, hay, or
compost.
Start thinking about YOUR
garden.
Planting starts in the
greenhouse next month.