This is my first year planting a vegetable garden.
I'm planning on planting radishes, carrots, cucumbers, beans, peas, and
squash from seed and on buying pepper and tomato plants.
When should I plant?
Minnesota Master Gardeners say:
Some vegetables are quite hardy and can be planted as soon as
you can work the soil. These include radishes, carrots, beets,
onions, lettuce,
spinach, peas, chard, brocolli, cauliflower and cabbage. In fact, for
these vegetables, the earlier, the better, since many of them do not do well
when the weather gets hot.
Other vegetables will be killed by a light frost. These include
squash, melon, cucumbers, beans, peppers, tomatoes, eggplant and corn.
They should be planted when all danger of frost has past. For vegetables
which are seeded directly into the garden, you can push this date up a week or
two. Tomatoes, peppers and eggplant not only need
warm air temperatures, but also warm soil temperatures - above about
65 degrees.
Because of this, we don't recommend planting tomatoes, peppers or
eggplant outdoors in the Twin Cities area before Memorial Day.
