r i v e r s o n g - t i m i n g

Christie gave general planting times: early and late crops. She kindly had an extra territorial seed catalogue which gives weeks-to-harvest in order to specifically stagger plantings. A CSA farmer is planting every other week to provide a diversity of crops every seven days.

Early crops are ones whose seeds and starts can handle a little bit of frost and coldness without loosing it. Her planting is in the beginning of March. I will start my CSA 2 weeks later on June 15th, so start planting March 15ish:

cabbage
carrots
lettuce
spinach
fava beans
arugula
kale
onion (indoor seeds start in jan.)
scallion (10 per small cell)

The potatoe is an exception and should be planted early at the end of march to avoid the late blight. A crop of bush beans could be planted in April if more cropped wanted before June 1st, same with radish. Edamame is very picky and must have an exact soil temperature of 70deg to germinate outside.

Later crops are ones that can't handle the frost. They are planted in May:

beans
squash, winter and summer
corn, sweet
corn, pop

Try buying row covering (rehme sp?) from Steuber Distributing Co
I promised Christie I would figure out a thankyou gift.