Wednesday, March 18, 2015

A Planting Guide for Vegetables in Maine

March 1
Start indoors: celery, celeriac (3/1 to 3/15), onions and leeks (2/20 to 3/15), kale
March 14Start indoors: leaf and head lettuce

March 21
Start indoors: peppers
April 1
Start indoors: broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, eggplant
April 14
Start indoors: tomatoes

Start outdoors: beets, carrots, leaf and head lettuce, peas, parsnips (4/15 to 5/15), radishes, shallots (4/15 to 5/30), spinach, turnips, bunching onions for summer harvest (4/15 to 5/1), onions from seeds or sets

Transplant out: leaf and head lettuce, onion seedlings

May 1
Start indoors: melons, squashes, cucumbers

Start outdoors: beets, carrots, leaf and head lettuce, peas, radishes, spinach, Swiss chard (5/1 to 5/31), turnips

Transplant out: broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower (5/1 to 5/15 when 4 to 5 weeks old), leeks (5/1 to 5/15)

May 14 Start indoors: broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower for fall crop

Start outdoors: beets, leaf and head lettuce, peas, radishes, spinach, turnip
June 1 Start outdoors: bush green beans, pole beans, beets, Chinese cabbage (5/30 to 7/30), carrots, corn, leaf and head lettuce, peas, potatoes, radishes, spinach, turnip

Transplant out: celery and celeriac (6/1 to 6/15), tomatoes

Transplant or direct seed out: melons, squashes, cucumbers
June 14 Start outdoors: beets, corn, leaf and head lettuce, peas, radishes, rutabaga, spinach, turnip

Transplant out: 4/1 sowing of eggplant, 5/15 sowing of broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower
June 21
Start outdoors: bush green beans, carrots
July 1
Start outdoors: beets, corn (short season varieties), kale, leaf and head lettuce, peas, radishes, spinach, turnip
July 14 Start outdoors: bush green beans, beets, carrots, leaf and head lettuce, peas, radishes, spinach, turnip; hardy bunching onions for fall and spring harvest (7/15 to 8/15)
August 1 Start outdoors: beets, leaf and head lettuce, peas, radishes, spinach, turnip
August 14
Start outdoors: leaf and head lettuce, radishes, spinach, turnip
September 1
Start outdoors: leaf lettuce, radishes, shallots for spring green onions, spinach (sow now for fall crop and now until ground freezes for spring crop, well mulched over winter)
October 1
Start outdoors: garlic