Vegetable Gardening
Portland Area Planting and Harvesting Calendar
Vegetables that have done well in my garden:
| Veggie | Variety |
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| Green Pole Beans | Blue Lake (10 weeks) Emerite (9 weeks) Kentucky Blue (9 weeks) |
| Beets | Detroit Dark Red (8 weeks) |
| Nantes Carrots | Bolero (11 weeks) Nelson (7 weeks) |
| Slicing Cucumbers | Straight Eight (9 weeks from seed) Marketmore 76 (10 weeks from seed) |
| Lettuce | Red Leaf and Mesclun (7 weeks) |
| Peas | Oregon Sugar Pod (10 weeks) |
| Day-Neutral Strawberries | Seascape Albion |
| Slicing Tomatoes | Better Boy (11 weeks Indeterminate) Celebrity (11 weeks Determinate) Early Girl (8 weeks Indeterminate) Santiam (9 weeks Determinate) Willamette (11 weeks Determinate) |
| Beefstake Tomatoes | Brandywine (11 weeks Indeterminate) Mortgage Lifter (12 weeks Indeterminate) |
| Cherry Tomatoes | Sweet 100 (10 weeks Indeterminate) Sweet Million (10 weeks Indeterminate) Sugar Lump (11 weeks Indeterminate) Sugar Rush (8 weeks Indeterminate) |
My Garden Calendar
| Month | Plant | Harvest | |
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| January | Order seeds from local and national catalogs. | ||
| February | Add compost, till | ||
| March | Red leaf lettuce, Mesclun Beets Carrots Sugarpod peas Strawberry plants |
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| April | Tomato plants Pepper plants |
Asparagus Lettuce |
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| May | Beans Vines (Cucumbers, Squash, Zucchini...) |
Asparagus Lettuce Sugarpod peas |
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| June | Beets Strawberries Lettuce Sugarpod peas |
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| July | Beans Cucumbers Lettuce Strawberries Cherry tomatoes |
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| August | Weed the garden | Apples Cucumbers Strawberries Tomatoes |
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| September | Weed the garden | Apples Cucumbers Tomatoes |
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| October | Weed the garden | Apples Beans Beets Carrots |
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| November | Weed the garden | Beets | |
| December | Clean, oil and sharpen tools |