Vegetable Garden Planting
A good vegetable garden planting guide is needed to achieve maximum yields out of your vegetable garden. If you are prepared to set out a plan and use a planting guide (northern hemisphere) like the one below you will be well on the way to success.
Soil Preparation
Before it comes to vegetable garden planting you will need to prepare the soil for your seedlings. It is best to start 6-8 weeks prior to first plant out. Add plenty of organic matter in the form of manure, compost or half broken down mulch. Add some blood and bone, lime, rock dust to the soil and dig in.
Leave for 6 weeks then re dig the garden ready for planting. For more information on good garden fertilizers then
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Planting Early Vegetable Crops
Planting early crops will allow you to harvest early. You will need to start seeds indoors or in a hothouse or buy seedlings in from a nursery. Warm season crops especially as they take longer to mature and will not handle the frosts so in some areas planting gets pushed back a few weeks.
Cool season crops For Vegetable Garden Plantings
You can sow early "cool-season" crops such as lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and onions immediately after preparing your garden plot at the start of autumn. Cool season crops take less time to mature.
Warm Season Crops For Vegetable Garden Plantings
Warm season crops take longer to mature and you will need to wait until the last frost or so seeds indoors to get an early start then transplant after last frost.
Seedlings Verse's Seeds
Seedlings are great way to start a garden they give you a head start. You can either buy in seedlings from your local nursery or grow your own.
Seeds
Seeds are a rewarding way to start your vegetable garden planting, as you get to watch them germinate and grow into seedlings.
They are a very affordable but can be time consuming as most vegetables seeds you need to sow into punnets and raise up as seedlings using a special growing medium. They also require watering twice a day to keep moist and develop good root growth before transplanting.
Certain vegetable seeds sprout and grow very well directly in your garden soil. Vegetable plants like peas, beans, carrots, potatoes can be planted direct in the soil.
Starting Plants Inside And Transplanting
If you start your vegetable garden plantings inside you will achieve earlier harvests and a extended seasons give gardeners maximum yields and more produce throughout the growing season.
When you start you vegetables in hothouses you will give your vegetables a head start to the season because you will have young plants to plant just as the season starts, saving yourself 4-6 weeks growing time if you were to plant seeds outdoors when the climate is right.
Transplanting
Vegetable garden planting is best carried out early in the morning or in the cool of the afternoon. Once you transplant your plants water in with a dilute seaweed solution this helps with the plants to deal with the stress of being transplanted. Keep watering the plants daily until they have settled in. then only as required. Give the vegetable garden plantings once a week a liquid seaweed fertilizer boost during there growing period.
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Planting Dates and Distances for Vegetable Garden
Plantings (Northern Hemisphere) |
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Planting dates |
Planting distances (in cm) |
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Vegetable |
Start seed in Hothouse
(cold frames) |
Plant seed or plant outdoors |
Between rows, hand cultivated |
Between plants |
Depth of seeding (cm) |
Amount to order per 6 metres of row
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Asparagus |
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April 15 - May 1
(crowns) |
90 |
30 - 45 |
10 - 15 (crowns) |
15 crowns |
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Beans, snap (bush) |
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May 15 - July 1 |
45 – 60 |
7.5 – 10 |
3 - 5 |
85 –
110 g |
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Beans, snap(pole) |
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May 15 - July 1 |
90 |
10 – 15 |
3 - 5 |
50 – 85g |
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Beans, dry shell |
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May 15 |
45 – 60 |
8 – 10 |
3 |
85 –
110 g |
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Beans, lima |
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May 15 - June 10 |
45 - 60 |
10 – 15 |
3 |
85 –
110 g |
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Beets |
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April 15 - July 1 |
30 – 45 |
5 - 8 |
2.5 |
1 packet |
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Broccoli |
March 1 - 15 |
April 15 or June 1 |
60 - 75 |
60 |
.60 (indoors) |
1 packet or
9 plants |
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Brussels sprouts |
March 1 - 15 |
April 15 or June 1 |
60 - 75 |
60 |
.6
(indoors) |
1 packet or
9 plants |
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Cabbage, early |
March 1 - 15 |
April 1 - May 1 |
60 - 70 |
45 |
½(indoors) |
1 packet or
12 plants |
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Cabbage, late |
April 15 - May 1 |
June 1 |
60 - 70 |
45 |
1/2 (seedbed) |
1 packet or
9 plants |
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Cabbage, Chinese |
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July 1 |
60 - 70 |
45 |
½ |
1 packet |
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Carrots |
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April 15 - June 15 |
45 – 60 |
5 - 8 |
½ |
1 packet |
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Cauliflower |
March 1 - 15 |
April 15 or June 1 |
60 – 75 |
30 - 45 |
½(indoors) |
1 packet or
12 plants |
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Celery |
Feb. 15 - March 1 |
May 15 |
45 – 60 |
20 |
½(indoors) |
1 packet or
24 plants |
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Chard, Swiss |
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May 1 |
45 - 60 |
15 - 20 |
1 |
1 packet |
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Collards |
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April 15 |
60 – 75 |
15 |
½ |
1 packet |
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Cucumbers |
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May 1 - June 15 |
120 - 150 |
30 between single plants;
90 between hills of three |
1 |
1 packet |
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Eggplant |
March 15 - April 1 |
June 1 |
60 - 75 |
60 |
½(indoors) |
1 packet or
9 plants |
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Endive |
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April 15 |
45 – 75 |
20 - 25 |
½ |
1 packet |
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Garlic |
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Oct. 1 - Nov. 1 |
45 - 75 |
10 – 15 |
3 - 4 |
450g of cloves |
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Horseradish |
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April 15 - May 1 |
60 - 75 |
30 - 45 |
6 (roots) |
18 roots |
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Kale |
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April 15 - July 15 |
45 - 60 |
30 - 45 |
½ |
1 packet |
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Kohlrabi |
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April 15 - June 1 or
Aug. 1 - 15 |
18 - 24 |
6 |
½ |
1 packet |
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Lettuce, leaf |
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April 15 - June 1 or
Aug. 1 - 15 |
12 - 18 |
4 - 6 |
¼ |
1 packet |
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Lettuce, head |
March 1 - 15 |
April 15 - May 1 |
18 - 24 |
12 |
¼ (indoors) |
1 packet or
18 plants |
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Muskmelon |
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May 15 - June 1 |
60 - 72 |
18 |
1 |
1 packet |
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Okra |
March 15 - April 1 |
June 1 |
24 - 36 |
12 - 15 |
½ (indoors) |
1 packet |
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Onion seeds |
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April 15 |
12 - 24 |
2 |
½ |
1 packet |
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Onion, transplants |
Feb. 1 - 15 |
April 15 |
12 - 24 |
2 - 3 |
½ (indoors) |
1 packet |
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Onion, sets |
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April 15 |
12 - 24 |
2 - 3 |
1 - 2 |
½ lb |
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Parsley |
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April 15 - May 1 |
12 - 24 |
4 - 6 |
¼ |
1 packet |
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Parsnips |
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May 1 - 15 |
18 - 24 |
3 - 4 |
½ |
1 packet |
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Peas |
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April 10 - May 15 |
18 - 24 |
2 |
1½ |
1 packet |
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Pepper |
March 15 - April 1 |
June 1 |
24 - 36 |
18 - 24 |
½ (indoors) |
1 packet or
12 plants |
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Potatoes, Irish |
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April 15 - June 1 |
24 - 30 |
12 - 18 |
4 (each piece) |
3 lb seed potatoes |
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Potatoes, sweet |
April 15 (roots) |
June 1 |
36 - 48 |
18 - 24 |
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9 - 12 plants |
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Pumpkin |
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May 10 - June 1 |
72 - 96 |
24 - 36 between single plants;
60 - 72 between hills of three |
1 - 2 |
1 packet |
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Radish |
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April 10 - June 1 or
Aug. 1 - 15 |
6 - 12 |
1 - 2 |
½ |
1 packet |
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Rhubarb |
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April 15 - May 1 |
36 - 48 |
36 - 48 |
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5 or 6 plants |
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Rutabaga |
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May 15 - June 15 |
18 - 24 |
8 - 12 |
½ |
1 packet |
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Spinach |
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April 15 or Aug. 1 - 15 |
12 - 18 |
3 - 4 |
½ |
1 packet |
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Squash, summer |
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May 10 - June 1 |
24 - 36 |
24 - 36 |
1 |
1 packet |
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Squash, winter |
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May 10 - June 1 |
72 - 96 |
24 - 36 between single plants;
60 - 72 between hills of three |
1 |
1 packet |
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Sweet corn |
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May 10 - July 1 |
30 |
12 |
1 - 2 |
1 packet |
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Tomato |
April 1 - 15 |
May 15 - June 1 |
24 - 36 |
36 - 48 |
¼ (indoors) |
1 packet or
6 - 8 plants |
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Turnip |
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April 15 or Aug. 1 |
15 - 18 |
3 - 4 |
½ |
1 packet |
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Watermelon |
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May 15 - June 1 |
60 - 72 |
24 - 36 between single plants;
60 - 72 between hills of three |
½ |
1 packet |
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