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Small Garden Plan for Georgia

Prepared by Wayne J. McLaurin, Extension Horticulturist

Garden Size: 25 feet wide, 50 feet long

2 Asparagus *1 Set crowns in March
2½ Cabbage + Lettuce *2 Set cabbage and lettuce March 1
2½ Onion Sets *3 Set March 10 - 20
2½ Parsley or Turnips + Radishes + Carrots + Beets *4 Around March 20
2½ Garden Peas + Cabbage *5 Early and late February for peas
2½ Bush Green Beans + Broccoli *6 Beans April 1; Broccoli July 10
2½ Southern Peas + Cauliflower *7 Peas April 1; Cauliflower July 10
2½ Staked Tomatoes + Bell Peppers + Eggplant *8 After frost danger
3½ Staked Cucumbers + Pole Beans *9 After frost danger
2 Potatoes Late February

Planting dates are for middle Georgia. South Georgia can plant 10 to 14 days earlier in spring. North Georgia should plant two weeks later in spring.

*1 Buy one-year-old crowns. Do not harvest the first year.
*2 Set leaf lettuce between cabbage plants.
*3 Set thick; then thin and eat as needed.
*4 Seed parsley or turnips thick; mix radish seed sparingly with carrots.
*5 Sow peas as early as the ground can be prepared. Cabbage plants will need to be grown, because they will not be available from commercial sources at this time of year.
*6 & *7 Cauliflower plants will need to be grown from seed.
*8 Prune tomatoes to one stem.
*9 State and prune cucumbers and train to climb string or stakes.

Vegetable Recommended Cultivar
Asparagus Mary Washington
Bush green bean Tendergreen
Pole bean Kentucky Wonder 191
Beets Detroit Dark Red
Broccoli Green Comet
Cabbage Early Round Dutch
Carrots Scarlet Nantes
Cauliflower Snowball Y Improved
Staked cucumbers Dasher II
Eggplant Black Beauty
Lettuce Bibb
Onion sets Granex 33
Parsley Extra Curled Dwarf
Garden peas Little Marvel
Southern peas Pinkeye Purple Hull
Bell pepper Yolo Wonder L
Radish Cherry Belle
Staked tomato Better Boy
Turnip Purple Top
Potatoes Red Pontiac, Kennebec

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Horticulture 3
Leaflet 178, Reprinted July 1999

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