June 20 – what can I still plant?

So you haven’t started your garden? Want to know what you can still plant?

Well for the next week or so you can plant pretty much any transplants. Most people are probably planting this weekend.

Seeds are a different story – just look at the days to maturity. Right now where I am I have a potential 79 days of growing left.

The following is a cut and paste from my spreadsheet which basically subtracts the maturity time from the first frost date and outputs the last possible date to plant seeds. As you can see very little is not plantable at this time. With transplants for the longer maturity plants widely available almost everything is still plantable.

 What to plant?

Per square						Last day to plant from seed
2	cp	Pickling Cucumber				4-Jul
2	cs	Slicing cucumber				4-Jul
8	ps	Peas				9-Jul
1	tc	Cherry Tomatoes				19-Jun
1	ts	slicing tomatoes				19-Jun
1	tr	Roma Tomatoes				19-Jun
9	t	Turnips				9-Jul
4	r	Rutabagas				9-Jun
0.5	ss	Spaghetti  squash				10-May
0.5	sbc	Buttercup squash				14-Jun
0.5	sbn	Butternut squash				14-Jun
0.5	sh	Hubbard squash				14-Jun
9	bb	Bush beans				9-Jul
9	b	Beets				29-Jun
4	c	Corn				19-Jun
0.5	z	Zuchini				29-Jun
9	k	Kohlrobi				19-Jul
2	kl	Kale				4-Jul
4	sc	Swiss Chard				2-Aug
4	r	Romaine				9-Jul
4	ll	Leaf Lettuce				9-Jul
1	ca	Cabbage				30-May
1	pe	Peppers				30-May
16	car	Carrots				9-Jun
1	co	Collards				19-Jun
0.5	p	Pumpkins				30-May
0.5	sp	sugar pumpkins				30-May
0.3333	gp	Giant Pumpkin				30-Apr

So go buy some wood, some soil, some cow manure, some peat moss and go planting. Plant a tomatoe plant or some lettuce, whatever you want to try. Whats the worst that can happen?