Piedmont Vegetable Garden Planting Schedule

SPRING VEGETABLE GARDEN

• 1 Dec - Mar 1 Start Broccoli transplants ( Italian Green Sprouts, Premium crop)
• 1 Dec - Mar 15 Start Cabbage transplants (Early Jersey Wakefield, Stonehead Hybrid, All seasons)
• 1 Jan - Mar 1 Direct seed Pea  & Sugar Snap (Super Sugar Snap, Wando, Early Alaska, Laxton's Progress, Green Arrow)
• 15 Jan - Apr 1 Start lettuce transplants ( Salad Bowl, Buttercrunch, Black Seeded Simpson)
• 1 Feb Start Sweet Potato slips in a glass jar, pull off slips, root in another jar
• 1 Feb - Mar 15 Start Pepper transplants (California Wonder, Banana, Keystone)
• 1 Feb - Mar 15 Start Eggplant transplants (Black Beauty)
• 1 Feb - Mar 15 Plant out cabbage transplants
• 1 Feb Mar 1 Direct seed carrots (Danvers Half Long, Imperator)
• 15 Feb - Mar 15 Direct seed Spinach (Dark Green Bloomsdale)
• 1 Mar Plant out Lettuce, Broccoli (soil temp 40-50 degrees)
• 1 Mar - Jun 1 Start Tomato transplants (Big Beef, Homestead, Marion, Better Boy)
• 15 Mar - May 1 Start Watermelon transplants (Congo, Charleston gray #133, Crimson Sweet, Jubilee)
• 15 Mar - May 1 Start summer and winter Squash transplants (Early Summer Crookneck, Goldbar, Early Prolific Straigthneck, Waltham Butternut)
• 15 Mar- May 1 Start Cucumbers (Slicing Ashley, Poinsett, Sweet Slice, Pickling national pickling)
• 1 Apr Direct seed Cucumber (soil temp 40 - 50 degrees)
• 15 Apr direct seed Pole and Bush Beans (soil temperature 50-55 degrees) (Pole: Kentucky Wonder; Bush: Tenderette, Contender, Blue Lake Bush
• 15 Apr - Jun 15 Plant out Tomatoes, Watermelon (soil temp 90-100 degrees)
• 15 Apr - May 15 Plant out Squash (soil temp summer 50 - 60 degrees, winter 70-90)
• 1 May - May 30 Plant out Peppers
• 15 Jun - Jul 15 Direct seed Pumpkins (soil temp 115-120 degrees)(Mammoth Gold, Bix Max)
• 15 May - Jun 15 Plant out Sweet Potato slips (Puierto Rico, Centennial Jewel)

*Sources: http://www.wqseeds.com/planting/html