Friday, April 23, 2010

When to plant a vegetable garden in USA

From Seed to Table: A Practical Guide to Eating and Growing Green
When to plant a vegetable garden? When you feel committed to give your love to your plants.
To start organic gardening is easy. The beginning-soil preparation- will require some education and time to follow for years, but you can start right now with what you already have. Use a grandma wisdom and make a first step - sow seeds with love to grow.
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Time for open ground planting:

  •  Hazel are covered with fluffy catkins - sowing radish, spinach, sorrel, rhubarb, marigolds, cornflowers.
  • Crocuses bloom - sowing onions, leeks, alyssum, delphinium.
  • Violet blooms - sowing fennel, carrots, parsley, godetia.
  • Daffodils bloom - sowing lettuce, summer radish, cabbage, phlox, daisies, lupins.
  • Blossoming aspen and coltsfoot - planting cold-resistant plants.
  • Blossoming muscari - planting peas, sweet peas, beets, cauliflower.
  • Cherry and royal hazel bloom - it's time to sow savory, marjoram, basil, zucchini, dill.
  • Chestnuts in bloom - sowing winter radishes, red radishes, lettuce, dill.
  • Bird cherry blossoms - it's time to plant potatoes and beans.
  • Peony blooms - sowing pumpkin, cucumber.
  • The red mountain ash blossoms - night frosts will be over, sowing pepper, eggplant, tomatoes.

The first step: If you decided go organic, choose to buy Certified Organic Seeds.


Certified Organic products are grown and processed without the use of synthetic chemicals and fertilisers. It is an innovative method of farming and production and is increasingly being recognised as being on the leading edge of food and fibre technology into the future. Organics is not just chemical free by testing. It is about the way the product ingredients have been grown, prepared, processed and packaged. The whole system is linked: soil- plants-people-environment.

Standards to achieve certification are internationally recognised and are assured through annual audits of all certified operators by an independent third party auditor:
In United States - USDA (US Department of Agriculture).

USDA  A Simplified Guide to Understanding Seed Labels