vegetable
Potatoes
Seed potatoes, not grocery tubers. Plant when the soil can be worked. Hill them. Grocery potatoes are often treated.
- Sun
- Full sun
- Spacing
- 12 in
- Days
- 70–100
- Zones
- 3a–9a
How to sow
Seed potatoes, cut to eyes, dusted and healed if you cut them. Plant when the soil can be worked, 4 inches deep. Hill as they grow.
Harvest
New potatoes after flowering. Storage potatoes after tops die back. Cure in the dark.
Mistakes that waste a packet
- Grocery tubers that will not sprout
- Greening from light
- Wet storage
Three packets
Yukon Gold
BeginnerWaxy-meets-fluffy. The one potato if you grow one.
Red Pontiac
Short seasonNew potatoes early. Forgives heavier soil.
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Peppers
Need more heat and a longer indoor start than tomatoes. Short-season varieties matter north of zone 7.
Lettuce
The crop that makes a first garden feel like a garden. Sow in spring and again in late summer.
The sow list
A note when it is time to sow
Seasonal, not daily. We will send what to start in your zone, and skip the rest of the year.
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