It’s Time to Start Planting - 2009
If you are itching to start gardening, you can! Cole crops can go in the ground now. Those include broccoli and cabbage plants. For seeds, endive, lettuce, onion sets, peas, radish, spinach and turnips are all safe to plant now as they can withstand a frost. When planting seedlings, it’s a good idea to add a ring around the bottom, such as a top of a paper cup, to keep cut worms away. When planting seeds the general rule of thumb is the smaller the seed, the closer to the surface. Small seeds can be sprinkled and lightly covered with soil. Peas, which are larger, can go into the ground about three times as deep as the seed is round. In Mid-May (2 weeks before the date of the last average frost), you can plant cauliflower plants as well as beet, carrot, parsnips, and swiss chard seeds. You can also plant more onion sets to stagger the harvest.
A week later plant beans, corn, and early potatoes.
Early Summer, which usually means Memorial Day, you can plant eggplant, pepper and tomato plants, as well as cucumber, lima bean, melon, okra, pumpkin, and squash seeds, along with winter potatoes.