Things to consider

Visit our tried-and-true Veggie Planting Calendar for a year-round schedule of when your veggies should go in the ground. Our selection often coincides with prime planting times for every veggie listed, but we always recommend calling ahead to check on current availability.

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If you don’t know what vegetables to grow, we highly recommend starting with heirloom varieties. Most of them originated before the 1950s, having been preserved and passed through multiple generations by seed saving. These were chosen because they “grow-true” and carry one or several remarkable traits—high yield, unique flavor, color or shape, exceptional disease resistance, heat tolerance, or adaptability to soil types. If you want to learn more about heirloom vegetables check out our brochure. We recommend starting with seeding vegetables and herbs that do well indoors in early February such as:

Crop Rotation is utilized to increase yields and diminish pest and disease problems.

Crop rotation is the practice of alternating crops of specific vegetable families to different areas of the garden from year to year. This gives the soil a rest from each vegetable family before that family appears in the same garden space again.

Visit our Crop Rotation Page

It is so exciting when spring veggies like beets, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage begin to fill our shelves! See the box below for more of the vegetables and herbs on our shelves!

Visit our Succession Planting page for more info.

For those without a yard, you can still grow fruit and other edibles in containers.

Download our guide for Edible Containers.

Companion planting is a technique based on a long history of observing interactions between plants in the garden.

Certain combinations of plants can add to, or detract from, the abundance and health of edibles in your garden by altering the soil, attracting or repelling insects, or creating a helpful microclimate.

Visit our Companion Planting page for more info.