All Entries in the "Vegetables" Category
Beans
Just 66 days after germination these heavy yielding pole beans are ready to eat. They are quite versatile in the kitchen. Eat them fresh from your garden, preserve them for later or dry them for shell beans.
Tomatoes
The sandwich tomato. When transplanting tomatoes, bury half of the stem after you have taken the leaves off. You will be rewarded with a sturdier, more productive plant. Indeterminate; requires support for best results. Packet contains enough seeds for 20 plants after thinning.
Cucumbers
An All-American Winner! These perfectly straight cucumbers have sweet, mild flesh. The excellent flavor makes this a super choice for salads or sticks for dipping.
Hot Peppers
Some like it hot! There’s such a huge variety of hot peppers from mild to blow your head off. Easy to grow, most peppers will produce enough fruit to supply your kitchen and save seed for next year.
Corn
Grow Corn in full sun. It prefers rich, fertile soil. Soil should drain well. Corn thrives in the heat of summer. Plants are somewhat tolerant of dry soil.
Radishes
Radishes are amongst the simplest vegetables to grow in your vegetable garden. They’re get fun for kids as they germinate very fast and come in a range of colours.
Pumpkins
The name pumpkin originated from the Greek word for “large melon” which is “pepon.” Pumpkins are grown all around the world for a variety of reasons ranging from agricultural purposes to commercial and ornamental sales.
Sweet Peppers
Bell peppers have a rounded, square shape with four lobes. They are hollow, with flat seeds inside. Bell peppers are the most commonly grown type of pepper in North America. Most bell peppers are harvested when they are still green, but when left to mature on the plant for a longer length of time, some peppers will turn shades of red, yellow or even purple.
Lettuce
Lettuce needs plenty of moisture. Also, fall crops may have to be started indoors since lettuce has a difficult time even germinating in hot weather. Transplant with care. Sow directly in garden as early as soil can be worked. Cool weather vegetable. Plant seeds every 2 inches, covering firmly with soil. Thin plants to 10 inches apart when they are 2 inches tall. Harvest entire head at maturity.
