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APP fill ATS By rap °wing' tinl Jl vUil l KJ Extension Agent
VEGETABLE GARDENING—A good early garden will provide you some healthful exercise as well as some delicious fresh vegetables. A few weeks after planting, you can start harvesting the rewards of your efforts. Radishes will be large enough to eat in about three weeks. Mustard greens can be harvested in six weeks and lettuce and spinach in about seven weeks.
Many hardy plants may be planted a month before the average date of the last frost such as broccoli, cabbage, kale, lettuce, mustard, radishes and spinach. You may plant a few short rows earlier. Hardy plants will tolerate temperatures as low as 10 degrees below freezing.
Start your garden with radishes. Cherry Belle and Red Boy are excellent round red varieties with tender, white crisp flesh. Mustard and spinach are fine for early greens. Tendergreen mustard is drought resistant and the flavor is similar to spinach when cooked. America and Virginia Blight Resistant Savory are two of the best spinach varieties. Both of these varieties are quite tolerant of hot weather and will not go to seed quickly.
Lettuce is one of the best crops for your early garden. Salad Bowl variety is so much better than other loose leaf types. It has notched and curled leaves. High quality is maintained even in hot weather. The more you pinch it off the longer it will last. Nice young leaves will come back each time.
Kale is another fine crop for greens. Vates is the best variety to plant. This variety is called Vates Dwarf Blue 'Curled Scotch also. The dark green finely curled leaves are ready to harvest in about 8 weeks.
A few cabbage plants will supply all your needs for early summer use. Stonehead is an early maturing hybrid and Little Rock is another which matures about two weeks later.
Peas should be planted, if you have room. Frosty is a productive sweet delicious variety which matures in nine weeks. If you are late planting your peas, maybe you had better try Wando. This variety will produce high quality peas even in warm weather.
Stop by the Extension Office for a copy of publication 44, “Vegetable Gardening in Virginia.”!!
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