Whats the best fruit, and vegetables to grow organically this season?
Question:I want to grow a organic fruit and vegetable garden. I would love to know what is the best summer fruit and vegetable this summer;
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What ever you grew last year, be sure to rotate the crop, don't plant in the same order. Be sure to fertilize, I used steer manure that was aged and no weeds. The vegetable will even taste better. Hoyakins
im planting some watermelon, cucumbers, tomatos, peas, corn and cantelope .maybe i gave u some ideals i hope
The "best" depends on what you like to eat. Radishes are easy and quick to grow, but if you hate radishes, they're a waste of space. Same with zucchini; it's extremely prolific, almost impossible to kill, and can be cooked nine zillion ways, but how much of it do you want to eat? Okra is easy, if anybody in your family likes okra; same with turnips, spinach, broccoli, brussel sprouts, and green beans.
Scalloped or "patty pan" squash is as fast, easy, and prolific as zucchini – and not quite as boring.
Corn, squash and beans, the traditional "Three Sisters," is a good start for an organic garden; interplant them, training the beans up the corn, and winding the squash around as ground cover. French green beans can be planted now and ready to harvest within eight weeks; they are pretty prolific, especially if you go vertical with a trellis, or use the corn as a trellis. Beans are good for building up the soil for next year. Squash vary from summer squash (like zucchini or patty-pan) that can be harvested within two months to winter squash that takes four months.
Interplanting, mixing plants together instead of planting large swathes of all one plant, is a good way to control garden pests and plant diseases organically. There are edible flowers that you can plant among your veggies, too, that help just about everything: borage, marigolds, and nasturtiums are my favorite.
In general, you can plant tomatoes and bell peppers now, but you probably want to start with nursery plants that are already eight weeks or so along, in order to get a harvest sooner -- especially if you are in one of the shorter-summer areas. Cherry tomatoes are the easiest to grow; Sweet 100s or Sun Cherry are very prolific, and you will be able to start picking them by July. Carrots are a good companion plant for tomatoes, and onions are a good companion plant for peppers.
You can plant Mesclun (which is a mix of salad greens) any time, and start cutting leaves within 5 weeks. If you start with nursery plants, you can start cutting leaves earlier. Plant seeds among the nursery plants; plant more every couple of weeks; and you can keep your salad harvest going until frost.
I love beets, because you can eat both the tops and bottoms; you can wait to pull them full-grown or pull baby beets within five weeks and cook the whole thing, root and leaves. One use for radishes (which I otherwise regard as a useless vegetable) is to mark where the beets are, because beets germinate slowly while radishes come up in less than a week and can be pulled in three or four weeks, leaving lots of room for the beets.
The only fruit I know of that you can plant now for a harvest this summer is strawberries, starting with nursery plants. Planting thyme and borage among your strawberries, with marigolds and nasturtiums around the border, will help control garden pests organically. I can also recommend sprinkling cayenne pepper around your plants.
I hope that's enough ideas to get started with. :)
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