Vegetable Gardening

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Vegetable Gardening!
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What to grow

• -Choose vegetables that you like to eat.
• -Choose vegetables that will fit in your garden.
• For example In a 2x2 garden you could grow
• One tomato plant (20-30 tomatoes)
• 4-6 lettuces
• A single vine of a cucumber/zucchini plant
• (5-10 cucumbers or zucchini )

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Hours required for different vegetables
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Seasons for growing Vegetables

• Warm Seasons
• -Tomatoes
• -Eggplant
• -Peppers
• -Vine crops (Squash)
• -Snap beans
• -Sweet corn

• Cool Seasons
• -Peas
• -Spinach
• -Lettuce
• -Cole Crops (Cabbage, broccoli, kale, etc.)
• -Root Crops (Potatoes, carrots, beets, onion,
  radish)

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Transplanting Vegetables

• Seeded
• -Spinach
• -Root crops
• -Peas
• -Beans
• -Corn
• -Cole crops

• Transplanted
• -Pepper
• -Onion
• -Tomato
• -Eggplant

• Either
• -Lettuce
• -Vine crops

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Guidelines on Watering a Garden

• 1-1.5 of water per week (water plants
  generously)
• Water the roots, not the leaves
• 65 gallons of water is equivalent to 1 of water
  on a 100x100 garden.

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For Additional Info.

• Click Home and Garden on our homepage and view
  the fact sheets
• http//counties.cce.cornell.edu/oneida/home20gard
  en/factsheets.htm