help me find proper veggies please!

Every time I try and find something out about gardening my search leads me here-So I am finally just going to ask the experts (all of you). I just moved to Havelock, NC (hardiness zone 8) and I want to plant veggies this coming spring. But I have not Idea, nor can I find the proper veggies for this zone. Does anyone have any ideas?

An added note-My ideal garden would have lettuce, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, strawberries, tomatoes, assorted peppers (chili and bell), asparagus, Sweet peas, and green beans. Things of this nature...does anyone know if these plants grow in the zone 8 climate?

Any vegetable other than the few tropical ones will grow in North Carolina. Key is planting at the proper time. A good place to start is the local county agent, who will have a planting guide and a list of recommended cultivars for your area. Once you get acclimated you can experiment with cultivars. Anything on your list will grow well in North Carolina.

Howdy lasmith, what a beautiful state. Take the link here, and scroll down to Vegetables: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/Publications/lawngarden.php

Have fun!
Les

Hi lasmith and welcome to DG! Like all of us you will likely have your share of successes and failures but will learn a lot in the process and, hopefully, enjoy it all. I couldn't give better advice that Farmerdill. You're off to a good start coming here though. As you encounter problems, you now have a lot of people who can help you out with them. Good luck.

Hi I have a large list of veggies that might do well for you on the Trade List Forum. Check it out.....

thank you everyone for your advice and tips...I am excited to start my garden and watch pick our favorite snacks from our OWN garden and learn how to grow his own organic veggies. EXCITED!!! :p

Iasmith,

Being close to a beach where you live presents the possibility of you picking up some seaweed on the beach. Seaweed is dynamite as a mulch. Loaded with all the trace-elements from the ocean, and hormones to prompt biological activity.

And don't worry about the sea salt in the weed. The salt scare is passed around like an old wives tale. There is now so much research that irrigating with diluted seawater is extremely beneficial. Investigate the benefits and avail yourself of such a gardening goody.

I use, with great success, the Sargassum seaweed that arrives in the Spring here on the Texas Gulf Coast. You will definitely notice a happy difference. Seaweed from the beach has been used as a natural fertilizer for over a thousand years in Europe.

Les

Check out the Kitchen Garden Alamanac posted at HarvestToTable.com at the beginning of each month. It gives a list of veggies for planting by zone. Also the site has a list for each zone in the Northern Hemisphere feature.

Here's the link to the site: http://harvesttotable.com/