Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

>The Days to Maturity starts from when the seed is planted. Look on
the Garden
Planting Details Schedule in the Files section of this Gardening Group
site.
Jim Kennard

What might throw some people & cause erroneous conclusions about this,
which can be spread "with certainty," (lol ;>) is the variability in
reaching
maturity. A "52-55-60 day" early girl Tom, can be 120 days in Alaska,
due
to low light conditions, etc.

To push the envelope, some folks w v short growing seasons, plant
closely against the last frost date. As this is a risk, some start
seeds
2 weeks or a month "too soon," indoors. If they freeze, they have lost
1/4, 1/3, or 1/2 of a plant-out - not all of it. If they get lucky,
they have
bragging rights. (Although w/toms, many report that cool soil-early
plantings, do no better than well-timed plantings.)

A side benefit is that only a fraction of the space, the labor, the
pots,
are needed at any one time. The task or failure are both lessened.
2 weeks or so after the 1st sowing, or when they transplant from cell
packs to cups, they sow the next fraction of seeds.

BillSF9c

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