So I downloaded the "Spring Seed Planting Schedule".
Does this sound right to you?
It is telling me: Safe Setting out dates after last frost.....(Varies here. For this example I'll say June 1st is my last frost date.)
Beans, Snap, 8 weeks after last frost. August 1st
Corn, 2 - 3 weeks after last frost date Mid June (Knee high by the 4th of July? Never happen)
Cucumbers, 2 weeks Mid June
Tomatoes, 4 weeks (a month) Plant on July 1st? hummmmmm
I've always planted all this stuff as soon as I knew we weren't going to get another frost. I never waited till August to plant beans. We have frost here sometimes the first part of September and most deffinately by the middle of October.
What do you think?
Oh Beans! and the Spring Seed Planting Schedule
Are you sure those are setting out dates? I start my corn indoors 3 weeks before last frost date and transplant to the garden by the end of may. At the early stages corn will take a little frost and if we have a decent early summer mine will be knee high by the 4th but I am quite short (LOL)
LOL I'm short too. LOL
I know, I can't believe it either. I think something is wrong with that schedule. If I planted by the schedule, I'd have frozen cobs with no corn. LOL
I don't know if this will work, but I will uplaid the schedule so you can take a look.
nope, it wouldn't upload.
OFG has it. Maybe she can post it in here for you. I don't know how to do it cuz I don't know what I'm doing. lol She knows what's she's doing.
Here it is Darrell. You're right, that's what it says for beans but it's obviously not based on an area that has a last frost date of June 1st or something.
http://vric.ucdavis.edu/veginfo/commodity/garden/springseedschedule.pdf
I'm just going to plant my bean seeds when I think it's ok to plant them. If my last frost date is June 1st, I'm putting them in on June 2nd. LOL
I plant peas about 2 weeks before last frost date, also potatoes, carrots, lettuce and all the stuff that will take a frost. bean about 5 days before last frost date. while i don't work my soil a great deal anymore (sqaure foot gardening method) I do add some compost and move the top couple of inches just so the germination bed is warmed enough by the sun to get the seeds going. I also soak any seed that is big enough to presoak. A couple of years I have been so keen on having early veggies I have buried heating cable by the row to keep the seed bed warm.
that sounds more like it, jagonjune.
I had a thought, maybe that planting schedule was saying that up to two months after the first frost, I could grow beans.
In other words, I could plant beans right after the first frost and keep planting them all summer, up to 2 months. Knowing that the last frost was far enough away for that crop to produce.
Does that make any sense?
I plant beans every other week, all summer. The last ones usually don't fruit but it does mean I have fresh beans most of the summer plus I freeze quite a few.
Peas go in the ground 24th April. They like cool soil. Then just to be sure, I plant more about 2 weeks later.
inanda
I miss a country gardens crop of peas! Nothing can beat spending time out there eating raw peas and putting a few in a pail. :)
I tried so many years to do that successive planting thing, but i found that when the really good weather and the very long days finally showed up the new caught right up to the first ones. so now i rely on picking every day to encourage the lovelies to keep blooming and producing for a much longer period of time. exception spinach and lettuces which i replant at the end of july cause they all bolt in july anyhow.
Holy Back Ache!!!!
I'll plant a few Beans and Pea's. But not all summer.
no no no no no no no nope. lol
I'm getting to old for that shtufff