Your Guide To Starting A Garden Today!
Once you get the hang of growing some of these 'easier to grow’ items, try out some others veggies and flowers! Get the kids to help with the educational, important, and special task of planting, caring for, growing, and then cooking with their one, hand grown food! It’s a wonderful way to teach them to love the Earth, try new things, and they’re more likely to eat something new if they’ve helped to grow it themselves!
VEGETABLES & HERBS
*This is the perfect time of year to give a vegetable garden a shot!
Some of the best veggies (and herbs) to grow, and tips for growing them:
BEANS:
Start planting both bush and pole beans now that the soil and air are warmed up. Try a continual 7-10 day sowing of different varieties. This will give you continual bean crops and not one large harvest with wasted crop.
Suggested variety: Contender, Kentucky Wonder, Topcrop
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BEETS
Sow beets now for a fast, early summer treat.
Suggested variety: Detroit Dark Red
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CABBAGE
*Cabbage is one of the easier plants to grow in the garden. Select a variety that is right for your location (size and maturity length). Be sure to fertilize and water when cabbage head begins to form.
Suggested variety: Premium Late Flat Dutch, Golden Acre, Michihili
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CARROTS
Planting carrots by April will give an early summer crop.
Suggested variety: Little Finger, Scarlet Nantes
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CORN
One of the most rewarding and fast growing crops to grow. Corn is delicious when cooked only minutes after being pulled off the stalk. Try a small plot of corn, working your way to a large field of several varieties.
Suggested variety: Peaches and Cream, Incredible, Sugar Buns
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CUCUMBERS
Fast growing vine or bush cucumber plants can produce an abundance of cucumber fruits. Be careful to pick a variety for the space you have in your garden. Vine cucumbers can be the best tasting but need far more space than bush varieties.
Suggest variety: 80, Muncher, Marketmore 76
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HERBS
Plant heat loving herbs like basil, oregano, thyme and sage.
Suggested varieties: Italian Basil, Greek Oregano, Dill
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MELONS
Melons are some of the most rewarding plants to grow. Great for hot, long summers. A staple for summer picnics and family fun.
Suggested variety: Sugar Baby, Crimson Sweet, Hales Best
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ONIONS
Get those onion seeds growing. Be careful to select an onion variety appropriate for your garden zone. Northern areas should plant long day onions. Southern regions should plant short day onions.
Suggest variety: Sweet White Walla, Red Creol, Yellow Spanish
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PEAS
Green peas and sugar peas are good to plant in July, and will produce a moderate fall harvest.
Suggested variety: Sugar Ann, Oregon Giant
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PEPPERS
Fresh, crisp peppers are a garden favorite. Peppers take up little space and can produce high yields when planted close together. Plant as many different varieties as possible. They come small, big, hot, mild, and an array of different colors.
Suggested variety: California Wonder, Early Jalapeno, Sweet Banana, Super Chili
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SPINACH
Spinach is more of a cool weather vegetable and will produce until hot weather of summer. Planting in early March will ensure you have plenty of harvest before bolting.
Suggested variety: Bloomsdale, Samish
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SUMMER SQUASH
These can’t be planted for another few months, but it’s something to think about and look forward to!
Summer squash sowing in June will lead to fresh squash and zucchini in July and August.
Suggested Varieties: Cocozelle, Waltham Butternut
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TOMATOES
The most popular garden vegetable. Growing tomatoes is not only fun but treats you to some of the best tasting fruits in the world. Tomatoes come in many colors, shapes, taste, and sizes. Grow a few varieties every year to find your favorites!
Suggested variety: Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Roma, Sweetie, Heirloom Blend
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FLOWERS
*If you’re low on gardening space or the time it takes to maintain a vegetable garden, but still want to try your hand at growing something this Spring, flowers can be a great choice!
Early spring flowers can bring the color and warmth of spring to your garden weeks ahead of schedule. Not only do early spring blooming flowers add beauty, they can be helpful in attracting bees and other pollinators to your yard early in the season, which encourages them to make your garden a regular place to visit for them. Keep reading to find what early blooming spring flowers you can put in your garden.
Read more at Gardening Know How: Types Of Early Spring Blooming Flowers https://www....g-flowers.htm
21 Spring Flowers For Your Garden
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Spring is finally here and we can’t wait to celebrate these longer, warmer days with you! Join us at our studio soon for one (or a few) of our upcoming, painting and wine classes! We have some super cheery Springtime classes coming up, showing beautiful flowers, Spring landscapes, paintings with lots of color, and more! If you’re living in or around the Pierce County area, Pinot’s Palette, South Hill is the place to be! We have 2-3 hour painting classes where one of our talented instructors will walk you through the painting, step by step, while you sip wine, listen to music, and chat with friends and family. Leave the class with your handmade, souvenir masterpiece and take it home to treasure forever!