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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

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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

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Healthy Soil for Healthy Plants

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Feed the Soil and Plants

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What is Fertilizer?

ManureAlfalfa

Compost

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Planting Crops: Direct-Seeding

And Transplanting

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Weeding the Garden

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Information about the Crops

1. When to plantcool season / warm season

2. How to start cropsseed / transplant

3. How to plant4. How many days until harvest starts5. How many days of harvest

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Cool SeasonJan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Cabbage

Collards

Lettuce

Potatoes

Peas

Onions

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Warm & Hot Seasons

Beans

Eggplant

Peppers, Hot & Sweet

Okra

Zucchini

Tomatoes

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

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How to Start Vegetable Crops

From TransplantsCabbage

Collards

Onions

Eggplant

Peppers

Tomato

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How to Start Vegetable CropsFrom Seed

Peas Beans

From “Seed” Potatoes

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How to Start Vegetable Crops

From Seed OR Transplants

Zucchini

Okra

Lettuce

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How to Space the Seed

• Beans/Peas

• Okra

• Lettuce

1 foot

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BED 1

BED 2

BED 3

Leave room for paths.

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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.

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Will Any Vegetable Crops Take a Little Shade?

• Yes!• Lettuce and spinach.

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Some more…..

• Bush green beans, beets, and broccoli

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Some herbs that take a little shade….

• Lemon balm- used for lemon flavoring.• Shiso- a medicinal herb also used for

cooking.

Lemon balm Shiso

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Days Until Harvest Starts Beans

50 days

Zucchini

50 days

Lettuce

55 days

Collards

55 days

Okra

55 days

Cabbage

65 days

Peas

65 days

Eggplant

65 days

Peppers

70 days

Tomatoes

80 days

Potatoes

90-100 days

Onions

100 days

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Days of Harvest

• Short Harvest

Cabbage: 3 weeks

Lettuce: 2-3 weeks

Peas: 3 weeks

Potatoes: harvest in July and store in refrigerator

Beans: 2 weeks

Zucchini: 4 weeks or longer

Onions: 3 weeks

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Days of Harvest

• Long HarvestCollards: spring & fall

Tomatoes: 3 months or longer

Eggplant: 3 months or longer

Okra: 3 months or longer

Peppers (sweet & hot) 3 months or longer

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Succession Planting-how to have something to pick and sell all season.

BED 1

BED 2

BED 3

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Succession Planting: April 1

BED 1

BED 2

BED 3

Plant Lettuce

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Succession Planting:May 1

BED 1

BED 2

BED 3

Lettuce is still growing

Transplant Tomatoes

Seed Okra

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Succession Planting:May 15

BED 1

BED 2

BED 3

Start harvesting lettuce

Tomatoes are still growing

Okra is still growing

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Succession Planting:June 1

BED 1

BED 2

BED 3

Finish harvesting lettuce

Tomatoes are still growing

Okra is still growing

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Succession Planting: June 7

BED 1

BED 2

BED 3

Plant Beans

Tomatoes:

Still growing

Okra:

Still growing

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Succession Planting:July 1

BED 1

BED 2

BED 3

Beans:

Still growing

Tomatoes:

Still growing

Okra:

Harvest begins

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Succession Planting:July 20

BED 1

BED 2

BED 3

Beans:

Still growing

Tomatoes:

Harvest begins

Okra:

Harvest continues

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Succession Planting:August 1

BED 1

BED 2

BED 3

Beans:

Harvest begins

Tomatoes:

Harvest continues

Okra:

Harvest continues

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Succession Planting:August 20

BED 1

BED 2

BED 3

Beans:

Harvest ends

Tomatoes:

Harvest continues

Okra:

Harvest continues

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Succession Planting:October 7

BED 1

BED 2

BED 3

Tomatoes:

Killed by frost

Okra:

Killed by frost

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Staking Tomatoes

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Staking Tomatoes

• More fruit• Better quality• Healthier plants

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Staking TomatoesSingle wooden stake

Tomato cage

Stake & Weave

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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.

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Put mulch down after weather is hot. Use rotted leaves, straw, hay, or

compost.

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Start thinking about YOUR garden.

Planting starts in the greenhouse next month.