Category: Warm Season Vegetabes

Corn is a warm weather veggie so don’t plant too soon. To ensure proper pollination, you should plant corn in blocks as opposed to groupings here and there. Plant one variety in the typical backyard setting to avoid cross pollination between varieties. It needs moist soil to develop properly, so keep the roots moist to a depth of 12”. Corn is ready for harvest when kernels squirt a milky substance when poked.

Varieties:

• Honey N Pearl: (76 days) Early-maturing, tender bi-color variety as 9” ears. All-America Selections Winner.
• Ornamental Corn

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.

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)