Planning When To Grow What

Jul 10

When you begin growing your own food you don’t have a strong intuition that will tell you when to do what in your garden. Here’s an overview of vegetables suitable for growing food as a beginner:

	English name	Latin name	Variant
1	Bean	Phaseolus Vulgaris	Promotor, (Hammenhögs)
2	Bean, short	Phaseolus Vulgaris	Maxi, (Hammenhögs)
3	Beetroot	Beta Vulgaris	Bull’s Blood
4	Beetroot, long	Beta Vulgaris	Kosak
5	Carrot	Daucus Carota ssp. Sativus	Nantes 2
6	Corn	Zea Mays	Spring Sun F1
7	Leek	Allium Porrum	Bulga
8	Lettuce	Lactuca Sativa	Mix
9	Parsnip	Pastinaca Sativa	White Gem
10	Pea	Pisum Sativum	Delikett
11	Radish	Raphanus Sativus	Round Red Small White Tip 2
12	Red Onion	Allium Cepa	Red Baron
13	Spinach	Spinacia Oleracea	Bordeaux F1
14	Zucchini	Cucurbita Pepo	Black Beauty
15	Tagetes, high	Tagetes Erecta	Crackerjack Mix
16	Yellow Onion	Allium Cepa	N.A.

And here’s a plan showing when to do what:

Sowing Plan

(“Germinate” in a warm place indoors and “Sow” outside in the garden.)

It shows for example that a crop like 9. Parsnip is sowed in the spring and harvested in the winter. It also shows that 11. Radish is fast to produce, which is good for kids because it’s easy to have success with it.

I’m growing all of the above in 2008 and the seeds are available from Weibulls. I believe it’s a Swedish company so the plan is probably best for Scandinavia, but it would probably work on other locations near latitude 56N with small adjustments.

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