Tips And Hints For Growing Easy-Care Warm-Season Crops

Planting months: March through July Spacing: thin plants 8 top 12 iches apart, rows three feet apart.. Special Tips: Grow in block, rather than long, skinny row, plant north of other vegies. Protect seeds with inverted berry basket. Presprout shrivelled type seeds. Isolate super-sweet varieties to prevent cross-polination (see page 137 of my book for explanation of open-pollinated, Su or standard varieties, SH2 or Supersweet Hybrids, and SE or Shugary Enhanced Hybrids.) Don’t take off the suckers (side shoots)!

Water and feed extra when silks appear. In small gardens, hand pollinate for best crop. Harvesting:70 to 90 days. When tips of silks go crispy brown and ears fill out, pierce kernal with thumb nail, clear juice means notready, milky juice means just right, dry and pasty means overripe, Recommended Varieties: How Sweet It Is and Early X-tra Sweet (Sh2 Supersweet), Honey n Pearl (Sh2 Supersweet bicolor),Sugary Enhanced: Miracle, Sugar Snow (white), and Honey n Cream. For dry soils and strong disease resistance, try Tuxedo or the bi-color Lancelot.

Step-By-Step Method For Growing Great Organic Vegetables By Pat Welsh Author Of : Pat Welsh’s Southern California Organic Gardening, Month By Month.

NOTE: If you are growing vegetables year-round there will be some carry over of cool-season crops into warm weather, for example artichokes, which can be put in from transplants in March and harvested in June, or globe onions, which are planted from seeds in November and harvested in late May or June, and strawberries which are also planted in November and harvested throughout spring into early summer.

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