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Try some
mustard
greens
What are your basic tossed
salad ingredients? Lettuce,
radish, tomatoes, green onions,
occasionally spinach or endive in
season and a pinch of fresh dill or
other herbs, right?
Very few gardeners know how
good mustard greens taste in
salads. Tender, young mustard
leaves have a peppery nip and a
mild, distinctive taste ap-
preciated by almost- all ad-
venturous eaters. Substitute
(chopped mustard greens for half
the lettuce in salads.
Mustardgreens have been held
back by being typed as a
Southern vegetable for sim-
mering alone u,. with pork. They
are delicious cooked but they are
not just a Southern vegetable.
Quick growing mustard greens
will thrive anywhere in the USA if
planted to mature during cool
weather.
The name "mustard greens" is
unfortunate. The greens don't
have a mustard flavor. Con-
diment mustard is made from
mustard seeds from a different
species. The only similarity
between the taste of greens and
" prepared mustard is in the mild
peppery tang.
Mustard greens will mature in
'` --'about 45 days from planting.
u first harvest will be ready
in o y 30 days, in the form of
surplus seedlings thinned out of
the row. Young mustard plants
are classed as "semi -hardy" and
can be planted 3 to 4 weeks prior
to the average date of the last
killing frost in the spring. Late
summer is' a good time for
seeding a fajl crop.
Three kinds of mustard greens
' are usually available — smooth
leaf, curly leaf and a variety with
broad stems preferred for
oriental cooking. Smooth -leaved
varieties win out where the soils
are sandy because the leaves are
easier t6 wash. The curly -leaved
, tyfes are superior for salads;
they fluff up tossed salads much.
like curly endive.
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VARIETY'
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BEST
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Asparagus
No
•
-
Late spring through late summer
65° • 75°
14 - 21
';" deep,
�•• apart
2' after
1st fte
Beans, Pole
No
-
Early summer through midsummer
70° - 80°
7 - 14
1 deep'
3" apart
, Hills -3'
Beans, Bush
No
-
Early summer through midsummer
700.- 80°
7 - 143•'
1'' deep,
apart
6
Beans, Bush Lima
No -
Early summer 70 ° • 80°
• ••
14 - 21
1" deep,
6 8" apart
12
Deets & Swiss Chard
No -
Early summer through late summer 65°'- 75°
14 - 21
A deep,
t" apart
Beets 3"
f Sw.Chdm8•'
Broccoli &
Brussels Sprouts
For spr tog
crop 6 to 8
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Late summer for fall crop 66°- 75
7 • 14
h" deep,
A,;s" apart
1 Y;'
3'
Cabbage & Cauliflower
For spring
rrop
i 6 to.8
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7 • 14
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Caul. 27,3'
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14 - 21
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1�
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14 - 21
1/8" deep,
t" apart
Collards
~Early spring where summers are 0 _
No - cool •late summer elsewhere 65 7507
- 14
%'+" deep,
2" apart
3' apart
Corn, Sweet
i No ) - Early summer through midsummer
65°-75° 1 - 14 i
70° • 80° . 7 - 14
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.3" apart
.-1.' deep—
4" apart
,•
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1 8.12
Lettuce
Melons` Cantaloupes
&watermelons
Mustard Greens
Optional 8 to 10 ' Anytime except midsummer 155° - 65°
v Optlondl 14 to 6 Early summer -after danger 70° • 80°
. i of frost
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T 1421 # :;•• apart
14 - 21j 1 deep'
1�4" apart
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14 - 21 112"deepapart,'
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12
12-18"
1
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Optional l 4 to 6
Onions
Optional ( G to 8 1 Bermuda & Green- late summer °• °
(Other -early sDg• thru midsum, �'60 75 14 - 21
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.
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j No . - -.i
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Early spring through midsummer 160° • 75° 14 - 21
FVery early spring and where -60° - 70° - _• 14. • 21
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Early summer for fall crop ' 70° • 80° 14 •• 21
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Peppers
Pumpkin%
Rad.she'
Spinach
'
No
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No . -. -
No ' - -
' No -
S Early summer
1 Anytime except midsummer
Very early spring or late summer
t 70° - 800 f 7 - 14
4.. aper`;
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1 65° - 75° i 7 . t 4 ` F+•' deep,
1 ;,- apart
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1
4"
! 60° - 70° i 14 • 21! y?' deep,
1 i," apart
Spinach, New Zealand
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Squash, Summer
SquashNinter
Tomatoes
Turnips
No
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No
Na
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NO"' -
-
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} 4"
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. 7 • 141 1
apart
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3•
1 -
8,to 12
!Early summer
(( 70° - 80°
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65° - 75°
160° • 750
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apart
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14 - 211
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1• L' apart
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