Celery

Celery is a warm weather crop that will mature in approximately 3 months.  It requires night time temps of 50 degree or more to grow well.  It’s  easy to grow in a cold frame over winter. Harvest when plants are 10”-12” tall.

Varieties:

Golden Self Blanch (90 days) Introduced in 1883, for it’s hardy growth and stocky, solid stalks.

Bean Blue Lake Bush

Bean

Beans are a warm weather crop.  Bush beans are more compact and produce earlier than pole beans, but over a shorter period of time.  Pole beans can be trained upward and will produce throughout the growing season.

Varieties:

  • Blue Lake Bush (56 days, 6” pods, Compact 18” plants are heavy yielding
  • Kentucky Wonder (60 days, 8” pods, prolific heirloom pole bean)
Bean Blue Lake Bush
Blue Lake Bush
Photo Courtesy Burpee Seed via BHC