Beets do best in at-home trial, but other vegetables can still sprout, too
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This Dutch Baby Ball beet sprouted from 6-year-old seed. (Photos: Debbie Arrington)
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These older beet seeds were still good to grow.
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Artichokes |
5 years |
Arugula |
3 years |
Beans |
3 years |
Beets |
4 years |
Broccoli |
3 years |
Brussels Sprouts |
4 years |
Cabbage |
4 years |
Carrots |
3 years |
Cauliflower |
4 years |
Celery/Celeriac |
5 years |
Chard |
4 years |
Collards |
5 years |
Corn |
2 years |
Cress |
5 years |
Cucumbers |
5 years |
Eggplant |
4 years |
Endive/Escarole |
5 years |
Fennel |
4 years |
Kale |
4 years |
Kohlrabi |
4 years |
Leeks |
1 year |
Lettuce |
5 years |
Melons |
5 years |
Mustard |
4 years |
Okra |
2 years |
Onions |
1 year |
Peas |
3 years |
Peppers |
2 years |
Pumpkins |
4 years |
Radish |
5 years |
Rutabagas |
4 years |
Spinach |
2-3 years |
Summer Squash |
4 years |
Tomatoes |
4 years |
Turnips |
5 years |
Watermelon |
4 years |
Winter Squash |
4 years |
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Garden Checklist for week of Feb. 9
Be careful walking or working in wet soil; it compacts easily.
* Keep the irrigation turned off; the ground is plenty wet with more rain on the way.
* February serves as a wake-up call to gardeners. This month, you can transplant or direct-seed several flowers, including snapdragon, candytuft, lilies, astilbe, larkspur, Shasta and painted daisies, stocks, bleeding heart and coral bells.
* In the vegetable garden, plant Jerusalem artichoke tubers, and strawberry and rhubarb roots.
* Transplant cabbage and its close cousins – broccoli, kale and cauliflower – as well as lettuce (both loose leaf and head).
* Indoors, start peppers, tomatoes and eggplant from seed.
* Plant artichokes, asparagus and horseradish from root divisions.
* Plant potatoes from tubers and onions from sets (small bulbs). The onions will sprout quickly and can be used as green onions in March.
* From seed, plant beets, chard, lettuce, mustard, peas, radishes and turnips.
* Annuals are showing up in nurseries, but wait until the weather warms up a bit before planting. Instead, set out flowering perennials such as columbine and delphinium.
* Plant summer-flowering bulbs including cannas, calla lilies and gladiolus.