A Vegetable Growing Cheat Sheet [infographic]

[NeoGreen]

https://www.anglianhome.co.uk/goodtobehome/garden-news/a-vegetable-growing-cheat-sheet-infographic/

A Vegetable Growing Cheat Sheet [infographic]
By Louie Watts

We are right in the middle of vegetable-planting season, the sun is shining, and we’ve wanted to grow our own veg for a while now, but the thought of knowing where to plant them, how far apart the different vegetables should be, and how long they need to grow can become daunting if you plan on doing more that one at a time.

Infographic and embed code below. Click here to download the vegetable growing cheat sheet for print and mobile.

Lucky for us all, we’ve been working on a solution to this problem. Good to be Home’s downloadable Vegetable Growing Cheat Sheet is a complete chart of all the vegetables you may want to grow this summer.

Since this guide was first produced we’ve been beavering away and have come up with an interactive version of the infographic that lets you choose your climate, what you want to plant and where you want to plant it. You can then create a personalised version of the cheat sheet to use at home!

[Canoe52]

1. KnR for all us home veggie growers!

[WhiteTara]

2. What a great chart! Thanks

So are you getting volunteers in the elderberry patch? They are definitely trying to take over a flower bed at my garden!

[True Blue American]

9. I asked my Son

To plant Arugulu for me last year. After several bags of Arugula as big as Pillow case, he is still trying to get it out. Over took his garden.

I planted 4 tomatoes 2 years ago. None last year, but I had enough 🍅 last year to give them away.

After years of a big garden, I just planted lettuce in my flower bed, plus sage and Basil in pots.

I may have to buy Arugula this year.,)

[WhiteTara]

20. I want to plant horse radish and I'm trying

to find a place where if it overtakes the whole place, there will still be room for other things.

[True Blue American]

23. Ok

He has that too. First year, not hot,last year,really hot!

Lives where they have horse Race tracks. Last year, bitter vegetables. I told him to lay off the horse manure, use lime. My Dad did every year. Of course he and my Grand Dad had a farm. He made fun of my gardening, but I wised up over the years. Railroad ties, lots of bagged manure plowed under,all covered with black plastic. Cut out a hole,fertilize, then stand back and watch them grow! No weeds.

[NeoGreen]

25. I made an update thread...

...here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/11597833

I weed the "volunteers" out to keep the main plants robust and from spreading out too much.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

3. This chart is great...

Unless you live in FL.

I've planted seeds in December and harvested in March in previous years. Florida is weird.

[liberalmuse]

4. Thank you!

I’m in the middle of planting my garden in containers along with building some cold cases since Cottonwood roots run under my yard. This is extremely helpful!

[get the red out]

5. I have planted my first little garden

I have never planted a garden until this year and I got it all set out over the weekend. I am so excited!!!!!

[WhiteTara]

21. Have the most fun! Beware of Scott brand anything

it is poison.

[elleng]

6. Thanks! I watch my neighbor's gardens, they share with me,

and I hope their basil does better this year than it did last year because I lean over to snip some!

[True Blue American]

10. I will send you some if they do not:)

Already have it growing from seed.

[elleng]

11. THANKS!

HOPE to find some decent tomatoes around; maybe neighbors will be good this year!

[True Blue American]

17. Buy you a couple of plants, fertilize well in your flower beds

Even one, you will have enough. And probably more next year.

I actually bought my seeds at Dollar Tree, 4 for a dollar. lettuce, Basil, Sage and low growing Curley chard. Doing just fine.

I am out of the big garden business.

[WhiteTara]

22. I'm getting ready to set mine out today.

Eggplant is coming along nicely too.

Well, I've rested, I'm back into the garden. We brought in one yard of compost soil and it is so beautifully black and rich and I can hardly wait to sink some little plant babies into the earth.

:

[Ohiogal]

26. I tried eggplant

two years ago and the fruits never got any bigger than an avocado, then they would rot if I didn't pick them. I'm wondering if they do better in southern climes. Do you do anything special with yours?

[WhiteTara]

27. We are almost too cold here and I'm sure your

climate is way too cold.

[mopinko]

7. tried that radishes/cucumber beetle thing. didnt work.

[jalan48]

8. One of the best posts I've seen on DU. Thanks!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

12. Our garden has been very productive since last spring.

And for the first time I planted onions all over the place. Might have kept pests away. Lettuce and arugala just have up the ghost, but were fabulous January-April. Butternut Squash and Zucchini growing like crazy. Cucumbers too.

[notdarkyet]

13. Nice chart. Thank you.

[Cryptoad]

14. True dat!

[docgee]

15. KnR... Thank you! nt

[eppur_se_muova]

16. OMG -- there's such a thing as *carrot* flies ??

Those poor, desperate creatures !

[IronLionZion]

18. ooh, thanks for sharing

I still need to buy my vegetables to plant this year. This is good to know.

[mbusby]

19. I'm down in Texas...

...and I don't see anything about okra, black-eyed peas or collard greens.

[True Blue American]

24. Just drop the seeds in the ground,they will grow.:)

[Retrograde]

29. It's a British guide

the use of "courgettes" for zucchini is a giveaway.

British gardening guides are what I call vegetable porn: I like to look at all the pretty pictures, and fantasize about what they'd look like in my garden. However, the planting etc instructions have little to do with my California climate - I'm sure their "full sun" is a bit different than the sun-blasted plot my garden becomes in late summer.

On the West Coast we have the Sunset Garden Guide, a must for anyone who actually wants to garden in a non-British and non-East Coast environment. There must be something equivalent for Texas and vicinity.

[Kaleva]

28. Fantastic!