VEGETABLE PLANTING GUIDE
by Rachel Foster

May
After May 15 (frost free date for our area) you can sow squash and beans and plant out seedlings of tomato and pepper (protect from 40 degree nights! Cool temps can stunt plants).
Hold off on planting basil till June 1!
There's still time to plant onion and shallot sets.
You can still sow peas and parsley through May.
Water garden if rainfall drops below an inch a week.

June
Continue sowing squash and beans.
Plant carrots (seed) and celery (transplants).
Plant basil and other annual herb starts.
Apply organic mulches while ground is moist.

July
Net blueberries if you want fruit!
Prepare soil freed up by early vegetable crops;
you can still sow lettuce, carrots, beans and chard.
Plant broccoli and Brussels sprouts for fall harvest.

August
Sow lettuce, mustard greens, turnips and spinach.