Homesteading: Grow Your Own Food – Planting Schedule
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Collapse ▲January is the planning and ordering month. I order several trays of seedlings from Banner Greenhouse in Nebo, NC. These orders require 6-8 weeks of advance order prior to shipping. I like to order my trays for the full year so that I can stick to my plan. There are a lot of great options for seedlings but for the quantity that I am looking for I cannot find a better deal than Banner – many of my trays are $10 – $12! I also pay an extra $35 to have them shipped to my door. I acknowledge that part of the homestead credo is Do It Yourself – a clear violation with this order and delivery – but the amount of time and hassle that this saves me allows our production system to get much closer to producing 80% or more of our food supply. It also allows us insurance in meeting our goal to eat a salad from our garden everyday.
For a mid-March planting my order includes the following:
- Broccoli var Green Magic, 72 cell tray
- Cabbage var Ruby Perfection, 72 cell tray
- Kale var Red Russian, 128 cell tray
- Spinach var Bloomsdale Long Standing, 128 cell tray
- Beets var Bull’s Blood, 128 cell tray with 3 plants per cell
- Lettuce var Red Sails, 128 cell tray
For an early May planting my order includes the following:
- Tomato var Amish Paste, 72 cell tray
- Sweet pepper var Lunch Box (mixed), 72 cell tray
- Eggplant var Nadia, 72 cell tray
- Asian greens var Tatsoi, 72 cell tray
- Swiss chard var Rainbow, 72 cell tray
- Lettuce var Muir, 72 cell tray
For an early September planting my order includes the following:
- Broccoli var Imperial, 72 cell tray
- Cabbage var Ruby Perfection, 72 cell tray
- Kale var Winterbor, 128 cell tray
- Spinach var Carmel, 128 cell tray
- Beets var Cylindra, 128 cell tray with 2 plants per cell
- Brussels Sprouts var Hestia, 72 cell tray
Throughout the year I also direct seed many of my crops. I save my own seed for open-pollinated varieties and I purchase seed from a variety of seed catalogs and home garden stores for others.
I also plan for the following direct seeding events:
January:
- Snap peas (late January) – 25 ft row
February:
- Snap peas – 25 ft row
- Beets – 50 ft row
- Turnips – 100 ft row
- Rutabaga – 50 ft row
- Greens – 25 ft row
March:
- Irish potato var Kennebec, Purple Majesty, Red Soda – 25 pounds of seed pieces in total for 250 ft row
- Snap peas – 25 ft row
- Beets – 50 ft row
- Greens* – 25 ft row
- Sweet onions, intermediate day variety – 300 transplants
April:
- Corn var Bloody Butcher – 2 lb of seed, 800 ft row
- Bush beans – 100 ft row
- Greens* – 25 ft row
- Parsnips – 200 ft row
May:
- Sweet potato var Bayou Belle – 1000 slips
1000 sweet potato slips, shipped in a box
- Winter squash – butternut var Waltham – 100 mounds
- Summer squash – zucchini – 10 mounds
- Summer squash – yellow crookneck – 10 mounds
- Sweet corn var Silver Queen – 1 lb of seed, 400 ft row
- Okra – 25 ft row
- Bush beans – 100 ft row
- Greens* – 25 ft row
- Basil var Eleonora – 25 ft row
June:
- Bush beans – 100 ft row
- Greens* – 25 ft row
- Summer squash – zucchini – 10 mounds
- Summer squash – yellow crookneck – 10 mounds
- Okra – 25 ft row
July:
- Bush beans – 100 ft row
- Greens* – 25 ft row
- Summer squash – zucchini – 10 mounds
- Summer squash – yellow crookneck – 10 mounds
Aug:
- Bush beans – 100 ft row
- Greens* – 25 ft row
- Beets – 200 ft row
- Turnips – 200 ft row
- Rutabaga – 100 ft row
- Carrots – 200 ft row
Sept:
- Bush beans – 100 ft row (last planting in 1st week of Sept)
each canner can hold 7 quarts
- Greens* – 25 ft row
Oct:
- Garlic – 50 ft row
- Strawberries var Chandler – 100 plugs
*Greens – For Feb., March, and Aug. greens I go with cool-season types, for April, May, June, and July planting I go with heat tolerant greens, and for Sept. greens I go with cold tolerant varieties.
- Catawba County Gardening Home Page
- Annual Garden Calendar for Catawba County
- Project Homestead – Grow Your Own Food on Less than 1 Acre in Catawba County
- Homesteading – Eat a Salad From Your Garden Everyday
- Homesteading: Grow Your Own Food – Planting Schedule
- Homesteading – Manage Weeds While Building Soils